Role: Consultant - Strategic Consulting

Location: US, Detroit / Hybrid

Role ID: 2026-3253

Our vision is to create a safe and sustainable world.

Our Strategy & Advisory / Strategic Consulting team provides strategic, commercial, and technical advisory services that support clients navigating complex, engineering-driven decisions across mobility, energy, and industrial markets.

Position Summary

We are seeking a Consultant to support client-facing projects across electrification, EV platforms, AI-enabled systems, autonomous vehicles, and adjacent markets including industrial equipment, energy systems, off-highway, rail, marine, and advanced manufacturing.

This role is execution-focused and analytical, supporting senior team members by translating strategic questions into structured analyses, coordinated workstreams, and high-quality client deliverables. The Consultant will apply transferable strategy and analytical frameworks across multiple sectors while building depth in emerging technologies and markets. This is a fast-paced consulting environment, and successful candidates should be comfortable working across multiple parallel projects or supporting high-intensity engagements with tight timelines and evolving priorities.

Key Responsibilities

Project & Engagement Support

• Support delivery of client-facing and internal strategic advisory projects across automotive, EV, autonomy/AI, and adjacent engineering-led markets.
• Assist with analyses including market assessments, competitive benchmarking, value chain mapping, cost and “should-cost” analysis, and technology positioning.
• Track project milestones, deliverables, and dependencies across multiple workstreams.
• Contribute to client-ready presentations, briefing materials, meeting preparation, and follow-ups.

Research & Analytical Support

• Conduct structured research on EV architectures, autonomous vehicle ecosystems, AI applications, and emerging technologies, as well as adjacent sectors such as energy transition, industrial systems, and advanced manufacturing.
• Synthesize technical, regulatory, and market inputs into clear insights and executive-level summaries.
• Support development of quantitative and qualitative analyses (e.g., adoption scenarios, cost drivers, market sizing, technology roadmaps)

Operational & Team Enablement

• Maintain project documentation, trackers, templates, and internal knowledge repositories.
• Support internal team routines such as knowledge sharing and lessons learned.
• Assist with preparation of internal status updates, dashboards, and progress reporting.
• Methodology & Cross-Market Tool Development.
• Support development and refinement of reusable frameworks, templates, and analytical tools used across strategic consulting engagements.
• Help adapt existing methodologies (e.g., benchmarking, cost modeling, strategic assessments) for use in new markets or technology contexts.
• Document assumptions, best practices, and lessons learned to enable consistent and scalable delivery.

Client & Growth Support (Secondary)

• Support proposal development by contributing research, analysis, and presentation content across automotive and adjacent markets
• Assist senior team members in client discussions involving high-uncertainty decisions, such as EV transition strategies, AI and autonomy adoption, regulatory change, and energy transition impacts.

Qualifications

Required

• 3–5 years of experience in consulting, engineering, strategy, or analytical roles.
• Background or strong exposure to automotive, EV, autonomous vehicles, AI-enabled systems, or closely related technical fields.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply concepts across adjacent industrial, energy, or mobility markets.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to structure ambiguous problems.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities in a fast-paced, project-based environment.

Prefered

• Experience spanning multiple sectors (e.g., automotive plus industrial, energy, rail, marine, or off-highway)
• Familiarity with OEMs, Tier 1 suppliers, technology providers, or engineering-led organizations.
• Experience supporting market assessment, technology commercialization, strategic planning, or mergers & acquisition efforts.

Education & Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) or a closely related engineering discipline.
• Relevant professional experience in engineering, consulting, strategy, or analytical roles within automotive, EV, autonomous systems, AI-enabled technologies, or adjacent engineering-led markets.
• Demonstrated experience applying engineering fundamentals to strategic, commercial, or analytical problem-solving.
• Experience working in cross-functional, project-based environments, collaborating with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Why Join Our Strategy & Advisory Team:

This role offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of strategy, engineering, and emerging technologies across a diverse set of markets. As a Consultant within our Strategic Consulting team, you will support high-impact engagements shaping the future of mobility, autonomy, AI, and adjacent industrial and energy systems while building a strong foundation in strategic execution and advisory work.

Additional Information 

AI Disclosure: We don’t use AI tools to assist in [resume screening / candidate matching / other selection processes].

Candidates interviewed will receive feedback within 45 days of their interview.

Records related to this posting and candidate communications will be retained for three years in compliance.

Working here

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.

EEOC

We are an equal employment opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, creed, gender identity. sexual orientation, LGBT+, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, marital or parental status), height, weight, national origin, citizenship status, age, domestic violence victim status, arrest record  or conviction record, genetic information, military or veteran status or disability, or any other classification protected by applicable federal, state, or municipal law. VEVRAA Federal Contractor.

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 via recruit@ricardo.com if you require any adjustments to support you throughout the recruitment process.

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