Consulting Manager

As a Manager, you will lead consulting engagements with senior clients, applying your strategic thinking and analytical skills to deliver high-impact insights for clients. You will lead best practice roundtables and facilitate key client events in Australia and New Zealand (ANZ) to help our clients make the most of the data and insights we provide. You will contribute significantly to the development of our intellectual property and play an active role the generation of new business, providing input inform Nous Data Insights business strategy.

As a Manager, you will also support and enable high-achieving project teams, actively developing the capability of your colleagues.

You are:

• An experienced consultant or project manager with a passion for data-informed decision-making
• A professional who enjoys working with clients to solve complex problems using structured analysis and strategic thinking
• A confident facilitator and communicator, with experience leading teams and managing stakeholders.

About Nous Data Insights

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with more than 750 people working in Australia, New Zealand, the UK, Ireland, and Canada. Nous is regularly acknowledged as a great place to work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2025 Nous was again named one of Australia's Best Workplaces by Great Place to Work and was recognised as one of LinkedIn's best places to grow a career, as a LinkedIn Top Company (Australia), and have previously been named Best Management Consulting Firm by the Australian Financial Review.

Founded in 2009, Nous Data Insights, is a world-leading provider of data-led solutions that help universities analyse their operations and services to students and staff. We are a medium sized business over 60 people across offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, London, and Toronto. We work with some of the most prestigious universities in the world as members of our collaborative benchmarking and insights program, UniForum.

We are developing new data products to expand our portfolio of solutions and deliver powerful strategic analytics to our clients.

As a Manager, you will:

• Design, deliver and manage analysis supporting Nous Data Insights projects for ANZ clients to generate insight
• Lead and monitor development of client reports including university executive briefings, regional reviews, best practice roundtables and steering committees
• Coach and develop team members to enable performance excellence, identify team goals and track progress
• Identify opportunities for the continuous improvement of the Nous Data Insights business
• Develop specialist expertise within areas of Nous Data Insights IP and business processes and contribute to the development of new knowledge that supports the regional and global business
• Manage individual client relationships by building productive relationships, including with Program Managers, Functional Owners and Academic Stakeholders
• Actively support the development of new business

A bit more about you:

• Strong academic background, with a Bachelor's degree or higher
• Strong analytical thinking and comfort working with data to generate insights Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Proven experience in project management.
• Relationship builder, with proven experience developing teams, and contributing to new and/or existing client development opportunities, as well as delivering outstanding service to clients
• Experience in corporate services transformations, service improvement programs, back-office process and/or operating model redesign
• Proficient with using business intelligence tools and data analysis to test hypotheses and identify data quality issues and unexpected changes
• Highly organised, with excellent attention to detail

Experience in higher education or data collections is a plus (not a pre-requisite).

Some benefits of working with us

• Belong to a small, supportive team that cares about your professional development. We offer active career and professional development support, funding professional development activities and reimbursing one professional membership per year.
• Opportunities to grow with us as we expand into new products and sectors.
• Flexible working arrangements, including WFH options. Hybrid working is supported while acknowledging that the fastest learning happens when working face to face. Staff receive a once off payment to set up your WFH office.
• A collaborative bonus that reflects company performance is available to all permanent employees.
• All Nousers have great flexibility around public holidays. We understand that people of different cultures, religions, and political beliefs may wish to choose to take alternative days of leave from scheduled holidays.
• Supporting working parents by providing 18 weeks of paid primary carer parental leave and 10 weeks of paid secondary carer parental leave (access to parental leave is gender neutral).

Finally, some important details...

Nous Data Insights is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. We encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander, and First Nations people.

If you are interested in working on complex problems and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you Please click apply below.