Business Change Consulting Manager

We are seeking a Business Change Consulting Manager with a background in Business Change Transformation within Defence to drive the business in Technology Transformation consultancy services into Aerospace, Defence and Secure (ADS) clients. Sopra Steria is recognised for its activities in consulting, digital services, and software development. We provide end-to-end solutions to support large companies and organisations in their endeavours to become more efficient and effective by combining in-depth knowledge of a wide range of business sectors, strategic practices, business change and innovative technologies.

This is a hybrid role and you will be required to be in Corsham (on-site minimum 3 days/week), with intermittent travel to other UK-based client sites.

What you’ll be doing:

• You will bring best-practice methodologies and deep Business Change Transformation (BCM) expertise to sophisticated programmes while ensuring partner alignment and sustainable change.
• Plan and implement change initiatives aligned with clients’ digital/IT transformation objectives.
• Design and implement safe, defensible operating models and business processes via methodologies like Lean/Six Sigma.
• Lead comprehensive Business Process Design, Re-engineering, and Continual Improvement efforts.
• Bring together and assess business and technical requirements, ensuring robust governance.

What you’ll bring:

• MOD DV Cleared.
• APMG Business Change Management certification.
• Consistent track record delivering large-scale, technology-enabled transformation.
• Proven success supporting bid/proposal development for technology-led consulting assignments.
• Exposure to Defence Digital or experience working within Defence digital programmes is highly advantageous.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience within information Security.

If you are 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: Bristol or within 1 hour travel

Security Clearance Level: ACTIVE MOD DV clearance

Salary: £70,000 - £90,000

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

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improve performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.

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 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.