Operational Analyst Consultant

Location – Bristol, hybrid

Salary: £50K to £70K negotiable plus many benefits including bonus, pension and medical.

Are you someone with a background of delivering Analysis, Modelling/Simulation or Operational Research for Government or Industry within the Defence arena? Our client is a UK focussed professional services and technology partner with an enviable track record of success as a trusted partner to customers. They are looking to expand their team to keep pace with increasing demand. As part of our growth plans, they are looking for experienced Operational Analysts (Senior Consultant or Principal Consultant) to join their Analysis and Approvals Practice.

This Practice uses modelling, analysis, domain knowledge and approvals expertise to provide the evidence to make better decisions in support of their customers within the defence sector. They:

• Undertake research to analyse the benefits of new equipment, approaches or technologies through horizon scanning and road mapping.
• Create and use analysis tools, models and techniques to answer challenging client problems.
• Typical languages/tools include Python, R, VBA, Simul8, Power BI and others.
• Provide the evidence to support Government procurement decisions up to and including Category A Business Cases and Combined Effectiveness and Investment Appraisals (COEIAs).
• Work with customers and stakeholders on policy, planning and strategy related problems through a variety of techniques including workshops, requirements elicitation, tabletop exercises and wargaming.

Your responsibilities would include:

• Ownership, delivery, and financial control of technical consulting projects.
• Building and maintaining relationships with customers, stakeholders, and industry partners.
• Designing and leading projects as the Subject Matter Expert in your analysis field.
• Providing guidance and instruction to staff on analytical methods.
• Developing new and innovative ideas, models, and methods.
• Assuming a leading role in bid development activity including solution, development and bid authorship.
• Promoting the company by leading growth activities, including interviews, recruitment campaigns and thought leadership activities (presenting papers, ‘lunch and learn’ sessions etc).
• Line management of one or more staff.

Qualifications & Experience:

• Educated to degree level or equivalent.
• Extensive experience of defence analysis work, stakeholder engagement, and a track record of managing and delivering projects to customer satisfaction, even under challenging circumstances.
• You must be an effective communicator, able to own customer relationships at the programme level with the highest standard of integrity.
• You must be able to lead a multi-disciplinary team by example, showing a positive, flexible, self-motivated, and impartial attitude thus inspiring confidence in others.
• Within a government or defence industry setting, you should have extensive technical experience using qualitative or quantitative (‘soft’ or ‘hard’ OA) analysis techniques and be able to mentor more junior colleagues and support their professional development.
• You must also be commercially astute, possibly with expertise in winning new business, and able to promote the company by writing bids and proposals or representing it at external events.
• You may have experience of project management and line management.

Essentials to work with us:

• Candidates will also need to either hold a current SC or DV clearance or be willing and eligible to undergo a Security Clearance check (SC level) upon starting their employment with the company.

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