Senior Business Strategy Consultant

Location: Hybrid · Didcot, UK (2 days a week in Harwell)

Seniority: Senior

Closing: 11:59pm, 15th Jul 2026 BST

Perks and benefits:

• Work from home option
• Life Insurance
• Wellness programs
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave
• Sabbatical Opportunities
• Salary sacrifice
• Team social events
• Extracurricular clubs
• Cycle to work scheme

The Challenge:

Would you like to be at the heart of developing innovative and transformative ideas? Are you interested in being part of a team that identifies how space technology can address UK and global societal challenges? Do you want to drive the growth of the UK space sector by catalysing adoption of space products and services across different sectors? If so, you may be who we’re looking for!

We are currently seeking a Senior Business Strategy Consultant to work in our Business Growth Team. This is a senior role, crucial to the continuous development of the Catapult and wider UK space industry. The team is responsible for driving commercial development within the UK space sector including supporting client businesses with international expansion and investment opportunities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage entire workstreams within larger consulting projects, with minimal supervision.
• Ensure high-quality, error-free analysis and derive unique insights to support client commercialisation/adoption activities.
• Act as an expert, coordinating hybrid teams and collaborating with external partners.
• Analyse market trends and gather intelligence to inform client decisions, identify opportunities and help create organisational strategies.
• Manage relationships with senior/executive-level client stakeholders and participate in client meetings.
• Support alignment of activity with organisational strategies and Mission objectives.
• Apply and maintain knowledge management practices to support communication of market intelligence.
• Support business development by assisting with bid preparation and prospect qualification.
• Engage internally and externally with relevant stakeholders to communicate Catapult purpose and strategy.
• Contribute to the development and refinement of Catapult products/services based on customer insights.
• Provide mentoring and guidance to junior team members.

Skills & Experience required:

• Degree preferably in a business, science or engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Post degree work in a consulting role, MBA or comparable experience essential.
• Ability to take complete responsibility for full projects/engagements, including all scoping, execution and delivery.
• Strong Business & Commercial acumen with the ability to develop value creation strategies within your workstream.
• Ability to act as a commercial expert, providing deep customer insight to shape commercialisation support activities.
• Excellent written English with very good presentation and communication skills.
• Experience in supporting rapidly-scaling client businesses in achieving their investment/fund raising and export goals.
• Commercial due-diligence and financial modelling experience.
• An interest in technology and horizon scanning especially how innovation impacts society and business.

You know you have been successful when:

• Clients’ expectations are exceeded, driving repeat business.
• The Catapult wins high value commercial contracts providing business services.
• Clients are providing referrals.

About us & how we work:

We strive to create a high trust, high performance and inclusive environment that enables team members to bring their whole selves to work. Our shared values are critical to this:

• We care - for our people, our partners, and our planet.
• We connect - and engage with people and ideas.
• We learn - and grow, as people and as an industry.

This job description sets out the skills and experience we think are needed to be able to perform in this job. If you believe you can deliver in this role then we want to hear from you.

We offer a hybrid policy which is designed around collaboration, one 'anchor' day per week working with your direct team and another flexible day per week to be spent collaborating or working with other colleagues.

At Satellite Applications Catapult, we’re committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workforce. We welcome candidates from all corners of the globe, but due to legal and logistical considerations, we want to be transparent about the potential visa-related challenges that could arise.