People Consulting Management Consultant - National Security

Role: People Consulting Management Consultant - National Security

Location: London, Manchester, Cheltenham

Mobility: Up to 100%

Working pattern: full-time or part-time

Career Level: Consultant

Clearance requirements: Applicants must hold current enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance aligned to a National Security organisation.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Our National Security team is a successful, growing and high‑performing part of our Public Sector Strategy & Consulting practice. Within the practice, you will work on innovative projects with colleagues and clients to drive excellence from strategy through to implementation, making changes that directly impact citizens. You will be using the latest technologies and methodologies with clients to help them achieve tangible outcomes and accelerate value.

We work closely with cutting‑edge research and development, major hyperscalers, and leading technology players, bringing the best of Accenture’s partnerships and innovation ecosystem to solve our clients’ most complex challenges. Do you want to work in an environment that is cutting‑edge, collaborative and challenging, doing work that really matters?

You'll learn, grow and advance in a collaborative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. At Accenture, you can truly take control of your own career.

In our team you will learn:

• How to develop and deliver solutions to real world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration
• How to maximise the use of data in everything you do, using this data to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to our clients
• How to lead with user‑centricity at the heart of our work

As a Management Consultant, you will:

• Work on projects to transform the Workforce across our National Security clients
• Lead complex, people‑centric transformation workstreams to drive business change, integrating across large multi‑disciplinary programme teams and providing leadership on the people side of the solution/ implementation.
• Be the face of Accenture to the client in your engagements, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge and coach as needed
• Develop detailed understanding of your client's business and drive issue‑based discussions grounded in a clear understanding of client challenges and barriers.
• Cultivate trust‑based client relationships
• Identify and address client business issues through root cause analysis and by applying pragmatic, results‑driven problem‑solving techniques and creative insights.
• Use a human‑centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities, and achieve innovation through collaboration and co‑creation
• Contribute to business development and sales, working with account teams to scope opportunities and developing compelling proposals to win new work

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• A minimum of 2-5 years' people consulting experience in a National Security environment
• Analytical problem‑solving skills and continuous improvement techniques
• Strategic thinking skills and the ability to bring insight to complex problems
• Designing and/or implementing operating models/ organisation design
• Change management
• Leadership Development
• Culture Advisory
• Workforce Transformation
• Experience of working with National Security clients
• Experience identifying growth opportunities
• Ability to operate at all stages of a project/programme lifecycle, from proposal through to full programme delivery, and experience managing risks and working with senior client partners.
• Working with data in the design or delivery of consulting services in National Security
• Working with technology to design or deliver transformation in National Security
• Strong interpersonal skills

Set yourself apart:

• In-depth understanding of the National Security landscapes you have worked in
• Experience in owning and managing relationships with leadership (either with your clients or internal stakeholders)
• Trained in Change Management or Agile methodologies, programme or project management techniques (e.g. Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes) and/or a Design Thinking practitioner
• Exposure to a current technology (e.g. a Cloud platform, a CRM platform)
• PowerPoint and Excel skills

What’s In It For You

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.