Analyst Consultant - Land
Overview
Role Title: Analyst Consultant - Land
Location: London - Hybrid
Job ID: 2026-3337
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo is seeking to further strengthen its Land business through the appointment of an Analyst Consultant who will support the delivery of our agricultural advisory programmes, technical projects, and policy analysis.
Key Responsibilities
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viarecruit@ricardo.comif you require any adjustments tosupportyou throughout the recruitment process.
Role Title: Analyst Consultant - Land
Location: London - Hybrid
Job ID: 2026-3337
Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo, member of WSP, is a global strategic, environmental, and engineering consulting company. With over 100 years of engineering excellence and employing close to 3,000 employees in more than 20 countries, we provide exceptional levels of expertise in delivering leading-edge and innovative cross-sector sustainable products and solutions. Every day, we enable our customers to solve the most complex and dynamic challenges to help achieve a safe and sustainable world.
Ricardo is seeking to further strengthen its Land business through the appointment of an Analyst Consultant who will support the delivery of our agricultural advisory programmes, technical projects, and policy analysis.
Key Responsibilities
- Support a range of exciting and innovative projects within the Land team.
- Work alongside project managers and technical experts to provide high‑quality project and programme support.
- Conduct research and data analysis to inform project delivery.
- Produce written outputs, including reports, summaries and briefing materials.
- Organise events and support logistics.
- Draft communications for internal and external audiences.
- Provide helpline support via phone and email.
- Assist in preparing proposals to meet client needs.
- Manage your time across multiple projects and take responsibility for the quality of your work.
- Liaise with other consultants to ensure your contributions are integrated into wider project outputs.
- Develop (or be keen to develop) understanding or expertise in land management, regulatory or environmental systems, and their interactions with farming, food and the environment.
- A Bachelors (2.1 or above) in a scientific subject.
- An interest in agricultural and environmental policy.
- Understanding of the interactions between land management and the environment, particularly, climate, air quality, biodiversity, water and soil.
- High accuracy with strong attention to detail and the ability to scrutinise data.
- Have personal drive and determination to succeed, be self-determining and able to positively contribute to the team.
- Strong communications skills (both written and oral), and confident comfortable providing helpline support by telephone.
- Interest and awareness of key environmental, biodiversity and climate change policies and issues.
- Strong numeracy skills and an interest and talent for data analysis are essential
- Very good IT skills in commonly used software, e.g. Microsoft Office (Excel, Word and Access).
- Effective communication skills, both written and oral and basic presentation skills.
- Excellent organisational and time management skills.
- Self-reliant and proactive with good problem-solving skills.
- Flexibility, resilience and enthusiasm.
- Strong team working skills.
- Relevant work experience is an advantage, but not essential.
You will be warmly welcomed into our workplace where every voice matters. We are diverse thinkers and doers, coming together to create a culture of inclusion. We will support you to find your place. We will encourage you to use your passion and expertise to make a positive impact through the projects you work on. Your knowledge and desire to bring about change will be invaluable in helping deliver innovative solutions that support communities across the globe in becoming safer and more sustainable.
Work life balance
We offer flexible approaches to work, whether that is working from home, being in the office, or as a hybrid worker. We're happy to discuss flexible working arrangements. Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential.
Diversity, Equality and Inclusion statement
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, we believe in each person's potential, and we'll help you reach yours. We have an ambitious diversity, equality, and inclusion approach as explained here. We value diversity; recognising that a more diverse workforce creates a richer and more varied working environment. Diversity also drives innovation, by allowing us to offer our clients the best consultancy service that we can. As part of our commitment to engage positively and pro-actively with all our employees to ensure an inclusive culture, we are a recognised as a 'disability confident' employer.
Benefits
We want you to know how much you are valued. Your remuneration and benefits package will reflect that. You will receive a range of benefits which include support for your physical and mental health.
Next steps
Once you have submitted your application a member of our Recruitment Team will be in touch. Please be aware that the timing can vary dependent on the volume of applications that we receive for each role and in some cases, we may start to review applications prior to the closing date.
Ricardo is a Disability confident employer please advise the recruitment team viarecruit@ricardo.comif you require any adjustments tosupportyou throughout the recruitment process.