Senior Consulting Manager - Public Sector

Location: London or Birmingham, United Kingdom

Department: Business Consulting

Reports To: Head of Public Sector Consulting

Job Summary: We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Manager to join our Management Consulting practice. The successful candidate will shape, lead and deliver consulting engagements that deliver complex business and technology transformation in our public sector practice.

What you’ll be doing:

• Engagement Leadership: Lead and manage multiple consulting engagements, ensuring the delivery of high-quality services to clients.
• Team Development: Mentor and develop junior consultants, fostering a collaborative and high-performance team environment.
• Client Relationship Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with senior leaders in existing and new clients.
• Thought Leadership: Contribute to the development of thought leadership and best practices in change and transformation.
• Business Development: Identify and pursue new business opportunities, contributing to the growth of the practice.
• Consulting Leadership: Demonstrated ability to lead and inspire inclusive, diverse teams and to work collaboratively with clients and the wider business.
• Strategic Thinking: Ability to think strategically and provide innovative solutions.
• Client Focus: Strong client service orientation with a commitment to delivering value.
• Adaptability: Flexibility to adapt to changing client needs and environments.
• Collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with clients and team members.

Required Experience:

• Several years of experience as a management consultant including business development, engagement management and leading consulting teams.
• Proven experience in supporting or leading the adoption of new technologies and ways of working within the UK public sector, including deep expertise in two or more of the following:

• Strategy Development: Developing strategy, designing change programmes and mobilising successful transformation initiatives.
• Process and Operating model redesign: Designing and implementing target-state solutions that improve services and value.
• Change & Adoption Management: Developing and implementing change management approaches that deliver benefits from technology and culture change.
• Product Management: Understand the business needs and align product vision, roadmap and requirements to ensure success both before and throughout delivery, measuring progress and pivoting as required.
• Customer Insight: Be the voice of the customer within the delivery team(s) - structure engagement with customers and users as well as drawing insights from data and best practice.

Education and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business, management or technology, or equivalent experience.
• Evidence of relevant continued professional education, for example certifications related to Consulting, business architecture, business analysis, change management and Product management.
• Be willing to undergo vetting and security clearance.

Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses. Comprehensive benefits package, including health insurance and retirement plans. Opportunities for professional development and career advancement. A supportive and inclusive work environment.

We’re a business with a global reach that empowers local teams, and we undertake hugely exciting work that is genuinely changing the world. Our advanced portfolio of consulting, applications, business process, cloud, and infrastructure services will allow you to achieve great things by working with brilliant colleagues, and clients, on exciting projects. Our inclusive work environment prioritises mutual respect, accountability, and continuous learning for all our people. This approach fosters collaboration, well-being, growth, and agility, leading to a more diverse, innovative, and competitive organisation.

We are also proud to share that we have a range of Inclusion Networks such as: the Women’s Business Network, Cultural and Ethnicity Network, LGBTQ+ & Allies Network, Neurodiversity Network and the Parent Network.

For more information on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion please click here: Creating Inclusion Together at NTT DATA UK | NTT DATA.

We offer a range of tailored benefits that support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing. Our Learning and Development team ensure that there are continuous growth and development opportunities for our people. We also offer the opportunity to have flexible work options.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We believe in the fair treatment of all our employees and commit to promoting equity and diversity in our employment practices. We are also a proud Disability Confident Committed Employer - we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce. We actively collaborate with individuals who have disabilities and long-term health conditions which have an effect on their ability to do normal daily activities, ensuring that barriers are eliminated when it comes to employment opportunities. In line with our commitment, we guarantee an interview to applicants who declare to us, during the application process, that they have a disability and meet the minimum requirements for the role. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know. Join us in building a truly diverse and empowered team.