Junior Consultant - Strategy & Growth in High Wycombe

About the job

Junior Consultant – Strategy & Growth

Location: Milton Keynes / Hybrid

Salary: £30,000 – £40,000 DOE

Contract: 18-month fixed term, with a view to becoming permanent

Working pattern: Full-time, 37.5 hours per week

Travel: UK client travel as required

Essential Requirements

• UK-based: Must be based in the UK and meet the residency and eligibility requirements required to obtain and maintain BPSS and UK Security Clearance (SC) for UK-based client work.
• Right to work: Must have unrestricted and ongoing right to work in the UK, without requiring sponsorship.
• Office-based working: Able to work from our Milton Keynes office at least two days per week.
• Travel: Hold a full, clean UK driving licence and be willing and able to travel to UK client sites as required.

About Enable Strategic Consulting

At Enable Strategic Consulting, we help organisations compete and win in complex, regulated markets. We combine business-winning strategy, capture consultancy, competitive intelligence, commercial thinking and technology to help our clients make better decisions and convert opportunities into results. We're growing and looking for a Junior Consultant - Strategy & Growth to join our team and work on real client challenges from day one. This isn't a traditional junior consultancy role where you'll spend your first few years simply producing analysis for someone else. We're looking for someone who is analytical, commercially minded, curious and ready to take responsibility.

The Opportunity

You'll work alongside experienced consultants and directly with client teams across high-value and complex competitions. A key part of the role will be Position to Win (PTW), helping clients understand what they need to offer, how they can differentiate, how competitors are likely to respond and what price and proposition gives them the strongest chance of winning. You'll work across areas including:

• Market, customer and competitor analysis
• Competitive intelligence
• Business-winning and capture strategy
• Pricing and commercial analysis
• Strategy and business cases
• Customer insight
• Bid and growth strategy
• Workshops and client discovery
• AI, data and digital solutions

You'll be expected to do more than analyse information. We want you to form a view, challenge assumptions, develop recommendations and increasingly take ownership of client outputs and outcomes.

What You'll Be Doing

You will:

• Develop and support Position to Win strategies across major and complex competitions.
• Research markets, customers and competitors and turn insight into actionable recommendations.
• Develop competitive analysis and customer insight to inform bid, capture and growth strategies.
• Build and refine pricing models, scenarios and assumptions.
• Assess price, quality, customer priorities and competitor behaviour to understand potential outcomes.
• Develop commercial and non-price strategies that strengthen client propositions.
• Contribute to client discovery sessions, workshops and strategy discussions.
• Challenge assumptions, test hypotheses and ensure recommendations are evidence-based.
• Support bid/no-bid and strategic decisions by identifying risks, opportunities and trade-offs.
• Work with capture, bid, commercial and technical teams.
• Apply economic, analytical and commercial thinking to real-world business-winning challenges.
• Explore how AI, data, technology and digital products can improve decision-making and business-winning processes.
• Help develop Enable's proprietary tools, IP and AI-enabled platforms.
• Contribute to business development, thought leadership and the continued growth of Enable.

The full role combines analytical thinking with practical client delivery, with increasing responsibility as your consulting capability develops.

Who We're Looking For

This role could suit someone with around 3–4 years' professional experience who is ready to move into consulting or take the next step in their consulting career. Your experience might come from Consulting, Business analysis, Economics, Commercial analysis, Procurement, Bid management, Business development or Finance

You don't need to have followed a traditional consulting career path. What matters is that you are smart, curious, commercially aware and comfortable tackling complex problems.

You'll ideally have:

• Degree-level education or formal training in economics, mathematics, mathematical sciences or a related discipline.
• Strong analytical capability and the ability to work with uncertainty and imperfect information.
• An understanding of pricing, commercial analysis and financial benchmarking.
• Experience or knowledge of business-winning methodologies.
• Strong commercial judgement and an ability to understand the relationship between price, quality, risk, value and customer priorities.
• The confidence to challenge assumptions when the evidence doesn't support them.
• The ability to explain complex ideas simply and clearly.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• The ability to work with clients and a wide range of stakeholders.
• Experience with Python, R or similar is an advantage, as is an interest in AI platforms and emerging technologies.

Why Join Enable?

You'll get the opportunity to:

• Work on meaningful problems - Get involved in complex, high-value client challenges rather than simply producing analysis in the background.
• Build consulting skills quickly - Work alongside experienced consultants while taking increasing ownership of your own outputs and recommendations.
• Get close to clients - Develop your stakeholder management, communication and influencing skills through genuine client exposure.
• Develop your commercial thinking - Understand how strategy, pricing, competition, customer requirements and commercial decisions come together to win work.
• Work with AI and emerging technology: Explore how AI, data and digital solutions can improve strategy, analysis and business-winning.
• Help build something - Enable is a growing consultancy, so you'll have the opportunity to contribute not only to client delivery but also to our IP, products, propositions and future growth.

What We Offer

• £30,000 – £40,000 salary, depending on experience.
• Hybrid working – 2 days per week in our Milton Keynes office, with 3 days remote with UK client travel as required.
• 5% employer pension contribution, with a 3% employee contribution through our salary-sacrifice workplace pension.
• Performance-related bonus reviewed annually.
• 28 days' statutory paid holiday, with our trust-based leave approach encouraging employees to take additional time where work and client commitments allow.
• Your birthday off.
• Modern workspace with meeting rooms, private booths, refreshments, networking events and secure bike storage.
• Opportunities for learning, training and professional development.
• Flexibility around appointments, family commitments and wellbeing.
• The opportunity to work alongside experienced consultants in a growing specialist consultancy.

Interested?

If you're analytical and commercially minded, enjoy solving difficult problems and want to develop into a consultant who can shape strategy, influence decisions and help clients win, we'd like to hear from you. You don't need to tick every box.

If you have the right mindset, curiosity and analytical capability, and you're excited by the opportunity to develop your consulting career with Enable, apply now or get in touch for an informal conversation.

Enable Strategic Consulting is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and welcomes applications from all sections of the community.