Leadership careers | PA Consulting

Leadership at PA means inspiring people, encouraging collaboration, and creating an environment where everyone can thrive. We value entrepreneurial spirit empowering our leaders to innovate, challenge where it matters, and turn expertise into action by delivering real, lasting impact for our clients.

Our leaders are committed to championing inclusion, inspiring bold ideas, developing talent, and modelling our values in every client and team interaction.

The power of ingenuity: Our CEO on building a positive human future Christian Norris, CEO of PA, shares his personal philosophy on the power of bringing together diverse minds, breakthrough technologies, and visionary thinking to build a positive human future. This is the story about the perfect combination of insight and impact, what happens in the space between, and where ingenuity truly exists.

Leading with purpose

At PA, our leadership philosophy is rooted in our leadership framework and core values, empowering leaders to challenge conventional thinking, drive change, and act with ownership.

Our leaders are trusted with autonomy to shape their teams, delivery methods, and strategic direction. They prioritise client relationships to deliver meaningful impact and long‑term value within sectors. And cultivate teams with a human-centred approach, including upwards peer feedback, to support personal and collective growth.

We challenge where it matters, to break new ground.

Our leaders drive end-to-end innovation, not just by offering bold ideas but by actively questioning assumptions and developing practical solutions.

We turn expertise into action, to deliver lasting value.

Combining deep industry expertise with hands‑on delivery, our leaders work side‑by‑side with clients to turn insight into lasting impact.

We work better together, to go further, faster.

Collaboration is embedded in how our leaders operate, bringing together diverse expertise across teams, geographies, and disciplines to address each client challenge.

We act with humanity, to forge real relationships.

By being accessible and engaged, our leaders create inclusive environments where people feel supported, heard, and encouraged to share their perspectives.

We own the outcome, to drive positive change.

Like all our people, leaders at PA take personal accountability for outcomes, owning work from strategy through to delivery to create value for clients and communities.

Leadership with real-world impact

Our consulting leaders steer and direct experts from a broad mix of strategic advisory, innovation and transformation disciplines as well as industry experts with broad and deep experience of critical client issues in their sectors. They also work alongside multidisciplinary teams of technologists, clinicians, engineers, designers, data scientists, former military operators, and innovation experts across our Global Innovation and Technology Centre and network of studios to turn ideas into prototypes, products, platforms, and breakthrough solutions clients can actually use.

As a proud member of the Jacobs group, we are increasingly operating as one globally aligned firm. Our leaders collaborate openly across markets and capabilities, taking shared responsibility for identifying opportunities, growing brilliant teams, and creating an environment where everyone can thrive.

One of the reasons I love working at PA is that we roll up our sleeves and co-create new ways of working, new systems, new approaches, new structures. It’s not just theory.”

Caroline Wayman Global Head of Financial Services

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What I’ve been incredibly proud and excited to see at the Global Innovation and Technology Centre, and across PA generally, is immense passion and curiosity around complex problems.”

Tony Perrotta Partner, Sustainability

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I am delighted to be able to build our team. It’s a real privilege to work with such enthusiastic, insightful, and collaborative colleagues.”

Cate Pye Partner, Cyber and defence

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The real beauty of working at PA is the variety of work we do across different sectors. You get broad and multifaceted exposure to projects in a way that's unlike other companies.”

Viju Vasishta Associate partner, Applied science

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PA is an engine of consulting services, truly able to transform and reinvent an organisation. We’ve got a mix of scientists, creatives, designers, and even robotics specialists.”

Ben Jones Partner, Aviation

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Insight

Joining PA as a leader

Our leadership assessment process consists of sessions with our leaders covering your expertise, competencies and a business plan presentation where we explore mutual fit and leadership impact.

You’ll meet a range of partners aligned to your areas of expertise, giving you a well‑rounded view of our leadership community and culture. The process focuses on business growth, leadership and culture, talent and capability building, market impact and innovation, and continuous self‑development.

Once you join our leadership community, you’ll be supported through a thoughtful integration approach designed to help you settle in, build momentum and succeed over the long term. Clear priorities, regular check‑ins and ongoing engagement with our leadership team ensure you have guidance, shared ownership and the support to play a leading role in growing the business.

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