Business Consulting Manager in Bristol

Are you someone who enjoys working at the intersection of technology, strategy and delivery, and wants to shape how organisations transform in complex, high‑assurance environments? Do you enjoy being hands‑on while also influencing senior stakeholders and guiding teams through change? ADS Consulting is growing, and we are expanding the scope of our Business Consulting services. We provide Business & Transformation and Technology Consulting services directly to clients and in support of the wider Sopra Steria business. We have a strong track record of helping our clients exploit technology, and we are excited by the opportunity to build on this further.

As a Technical Advisory Consultant, you will combine deep technical and infrastructure expertise with consulting capability. This is a delivery‑focused role where you will advise clients on technology strategy and transformation, lead complex technical delivery, and engage confidently with senior client stakeholders. You will also contribute to business development activity and the ongoing growth of ADS Consulting.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities. This role follows a hybrid working model, with travel to client sites or Sopra Steria locations as required for delivery, collaboration, or key meetings.

What you’ll be doing:

• Providing technical advisory and consultancy services, translating complex technical challenges into clear, business‑aligned objectives.
• Leading the hands‑on delivery of complex infrastructure and enterprise IT solutions in Defence, Government and high‑assurance environments.
• Engaging directly with senior client stakeholders, including C‑Level, to shape technology strategy, operating models and transformation outcomes.
• Leading, mentoring and supporting technical delivery teams to ensure successful project execution and high‑quality outcomes.
• Balancing delivery with governance, security, operational resilience and risk considerations.
• Supporting business development through contributing to bids, proposals and the identification of new consulting opportunities.

What you’ll bring:

• Strong engineering and infrastructure experience, with hands‑on involvement in configuring, deploying and troubleshooting enterprise infrastructure solutions.
• Experience delivering technology or business consulting in complex environments, including strategy, transformation and operating model advice.
• Background working in Defence, Government or other secure operational environments, with an understanding of security‑cleared delivery models.
• Expertise in large‑scale hosting and data centre environments, including virtualisation and hyper‑converged infrastructure.
• Strong knowledge of technologies such as VMware, Citrix, compute, storage, networking and operational infrastructure.
• Confidence engaging with senior stakeholders and leading delivery conversations with credibility and authority.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience supporting winning consulting bids and proposals within a technology or infrastructure context.
• Familiarity with structured governance models, high‑assurance frameworks and mission‑critical environments.
• Understanding of ITIL processes, lifecycle management and operational resilience.
• Experience working within or alongside recognised consulting practices.
• Awareness of commercial value and return on investment when shaping technical solutions.

If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type: Full‑time, Permanent

Location: Regular travel to Salisbury, Corsham and Hemel.

Security Clearance Level: SC and eligible for DV

Internal Recruiter: Soraya

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000

Benefits: 10% Bonus, £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase more days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible fund.

Flexible work arrangements available to support work/life balance and boost motivation and efficiency. Although this role is advertised as full‑time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about the sector? Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety‑and security‑critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.