Regional Digital & Data Hub Manager

Company Description

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

We’re looking for a Regional Digital & Data Hub Manager to shape, connect and energise our Digital & Data hubs across the UK. This role sits at the intersection of community leadership, communications, engagement and brand, ensuring our hubs operate as vibrant, inclusive environments that accelerate digital innovation, collaboration and capability.

You’ll own the communications and engagement approach across multiple hubs, working closely with Digital & Data leadership, Comms & Engagement, HR and Inclusion & Engagement teams. You’ll be highly visible in the business, travelling regularly to hubs, building trusted relationships and creating opportunities for meaningful two‑way engagement so that our people’s voices are heard and acted upon.

This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced consulting environment, enjoys travel, thinks creatively, and takes an insights driven, action-oriented approach to engagement, culture and brand.

Key responsibilities:

Regional hub leadership & operations

• Lead the day-to-day effectiveness of Digital & Data hubs across the UK, working with office leads, business support and LifeAtPA reps ensuring each hub champions collaboration, innovation and a strong sense of community.

• Act as the connective tissue between hubs and the Digital & Data leadership team, ensuring local insight informs wider strategy.

• Identify opportunities to continuously improve hub experience, engagement and ways of working using qualitative and quantitative insight.

Communications & engagement

• Own and deliver the Digital & Data hubs communications and engagement strategy, aligned to Stream priorities.

• Work closely with the Comms team to deliver high‑quality communications using standard channels and formats, ensuring messages are concise, engaging and relevant.

• Create opportunities for two‑way engagement, enabling feedback loops between hub communities and senior leaders.

• Consult and collaborate with Digital & Data leaders to craft clear, compelling messages for hub‑wide and regional communications.

Community, culture & inclusion

• Shape and celebrate the Digital & Data community across our hubs, creating initiatives that encourage participation, knowledge sharing and collaboration.

• Partner closely with Inclusion & Engagement and Internal Communications teams to ensure alignment and a consistent LifeAtPA experience across the firm.

• Support regular in person onboarding and integration of new joiners into hub communities, ensuring a strong and welcoming start to their PA journey.

Brand marketing, external events & recruitment

• Support Digital & Data employer brand activity by working with Marketing and Recruitment teams to showcase our people, hubs and culture.

• Plan and deliver external events (e.g. meetups, tech talks, open evenings) hosted in our hubs to support talent attraction and brand visibility.

• Regularly attend industry events, conferences and talks as a representative of PA

• Act as a regional brand ambassador, ensuring hubs consistently reflect PA’s and Digital & Data proposition and values.

• Contribute content, stories and insights from hubs to support digital marketing campaigns and social channels.

• Working closely with our Early Careers Team, you will support the administrative operations of the apprenticeship scheme locally in Manchester, while developing scalable processes to support future rollouts across our other hubs.

Stakeholder management & delivery

• Build strong, trusted relationships across Digital & Data, HR, Marketing, Recruitment and central Comms teams.

• Manage multiple priorities across regions, adapting quickly to changing business needs.

• Project‑manage engagement initiatives and special projects, delivering tangible outcomes aligned to business objectives.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.

Qualifications

• Experience in communications, engagement, community or hub management within a digital, data, technology or consulting environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to craft clear, engaging messages for diverse audiences.

• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and collaborate across senior and cross‑functional teams.

• Experience delivering events and engagement initiatives, both internal and external.

• Comfortable working across multiple locations and travelling regularly.

About you

• You love working with people, you are a proactive self‑starter with a strong work ethic, able to manage complexity across multiple projects and stakeholders.

• You are passionate about people and creating inclusive, engaging environments where people can thrive.

• You enjoy sharing knowledge, encouraging others to get involved and actively shape their community.

• You’re curious, constantly learning, and keep on top of market and engagement trends to continuously improve how we connect with our people.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance.

All PA people are required to undergo background checks and to achieve the Baseline Personnel Security Standard however, some UK roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, where applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK.

We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance. If you're unsure about your eligibility, we encourage you to review the UK Government’s guidance on security vetting before applying.

Additional Information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare

• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days

• Generous company pension scheme

• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives

• Annual performance-based bonus

• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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