Senior Consultant - Project Manager (Defence) in Bristol

Decision Analysis Services Limited (DAS) is an independent professional services company. Since 2007 we have provided services globally to more than 200 client organisations within the energy, defence, government, transport, and health sectors. Based in offices from Glasgow to Sydney, we support clients across five continents. We specialise in bridging the gap between strategic planning and operational execution, developing enduring solutions to the uniquely complex issues faced by our clients. We are experts in programme management, systems thinking, investment modelling, machine learning, and data analysis. These unique skills, coupled with our extensive experience of engineering, regulatory practices and operations delivery enable us to develop sustainable, long-term solutions for our clients.

Note: All offers of employment will be subject to UK security clearance. To gain this you ordinarily need at least 6 years UK residency.

The Role

As a Senior Consultant Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering change within time, cost, and quality constraints. You will lead UK defence projects from initiation to completion, ensuring strong stakeholder engagement, risk management, and project controls integration across cost, planning, and risk. This role requires a proactive, organised individual with the ability to drive projects forward in high-pressure environments.

Your Key Responsibilities Will Include:

• End-to-End Project Delivery: Manage projects from initiation through to completion, ensuring successful delivery within scope, time, and budget for our defence clients.
• Project Controls Integration: Apply knowledge of cost, risk, and planning to ensure robust project controls are in place to support decision making.
• Stakeholder & Communication Management: Build strong relationships, manage expectations, and resolve conflicts to maintain project momentum.
• Problem-Solving & Decision-Making: Identify risks and challenges, develop mitigation strategies, and make informed decisions to keep projects on track.
• Commercial Awareness & Budget Management: Ensure financial oversight, cost control, and alignment with business objectives.

Apply to DAS if you want to work on varied, complex projects within a business that values your development, where no two days are alike, and where you'll have a tangible impact on critical infrastructure in the UK.

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you should bring a combination of technical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams. We're looking for someone with the following qualifications and experience:

• Project & Programme Lifecycle Knowledge: Strong theoretical and practical understanding of all stages of project and programme lifecycles.
• Project Controls Awareness: A working knowledge of cost, risk, and planning, and how they integrate to support and influence project delivery.
• Delivery Methodologies: Knowledge and experience of both Waterfall and Agile project delivery approaches.
• Education & Experience: Degree educated preferred but not required, with 5+ years project management experience.
• Professional Qualifications: Must hold recognised P3M qualifications, such as Axelos (PRINCE2 and PRINCE2 Agile), APM PMQ, or PMI PMP.

Don't meet all the job requirements, but like the sound of us and the projects we work on? Get in touch anyway—we are always keen to hear from talented, solutions-led individuals at all career stages and might have the perfect role for you.

Benefits

In return for your project management skills, we offer a genuinely people focused culture. DAS is dedicated to offering more than just a job. We're committed to cultivating your professional development and success. Employee wellbeing is at the forefront of our thinking. We actively support a healthy work-life balance and champion workplace flexibility, enabling you to prioritise the things that matter to you.

• Attractive salary, reflective of skills and experience.
• Private pension, private healthcare for you and your immediate family, and private dental care.
• Death-in-service and income protection schemes.
• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays, and additional days to work on environmental and community activities.
• Discretionary office closure over Christmas.
• Personal carbon offset through company scheme.
• Access to professional and personal development platform, Udemy.

DAS is an Equal Opportunities employer. We support the principle of Equality and Diversity in employment wholeheartedly and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination. We commit to providing equality, fairness, and respect for all in our employment, and all those seeking employment at DAS.