Role Summary
Lead and shape data delivery across transformation programmes, combining hands-on expertise with delivery leadership to ensure high-quality outcomes and lasting impact for higher education partners.
About PACT Solutions:
PACT Solutions is a specialist management and digital transformation consultancy working exclusively with higher education institutions across the UK.
We help universities solve complex challenges across strategy, student records, data, change and delivery. As we grow, we want to strengthen the way we run the business internally while protecting the quality, culture and partner focus that have made us successful.
The Role
Lead data workstreams or projects, ensuring strong delivery, stakeholder engagement and alignment with wider transformation outcomes.
What you’ll be doing
- Lead data workstreams or projects end-to-end (planning, governance, delivery)
- Shape data solutions including quality frameworks, reporting and integration approaches
- Manage risks, dependencies and priorities across complex data environments
- Build strong relationships with senior stakeholders and lead workshops
- Coach and support junior team members, ensuring quality of outputs
- Drive adoption of data improvements, governance and ways of working
- Support bids, proposals and identification of new opportunities
- Contribute to internal capability, tools and thought leadership
Our Values
Our values sit at the heart of everything we do:
Partnership: We work with you, not for you.
Integrity: We do the right thing, even when it requires difficult conversations.
Inquisitive: We dig deeper to uncover what will truly deliver value.
Transformative: We focus on outcomes that create lasting, measurable improvement.
Why join PACT?
Take ownership of meaningful data delivery within major transformation programmes while developing your consulting, leadership and technical capability in a fast-growing environment.
This role sits at the Senior Consultant level within PACT’s consulting career pathway (Analyst → Consultant → Senior Consultant → Lead → Principal), combining delivery leadership with deeper expertise and team responsibility.
Requirements
- Strong experience in data analysis, reporting or data quality in complex environments
- Advanced SQL and experience working with structured datasets
- Experience developing dashboards (e.g. Power BI or similar)
- Strong problem-solving and ability to translate data into insights
- Experience managing workstreams and engaging stakeholders
- Excellent communication and consulting skills
Desirable:
- Higher education or transformation programme experience
- Data migration, integration or governance experience
- Exposure to consultancy environments
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