At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead transformative consulting projects in Defence and National Security, solving complex challenges.
- Company: Join Sopra Steria, a leader in digital solutions for government clients.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, bonus, car allowance, and generous leave options.
- Other info: Flexible working arrangements available to promote work/life balance.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on national security while developing your professional skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in consulting, transformation programmes, and building stakeholder relationships.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 90000 £ per year.
Are you an experienced consultant who enjoys leading business transformation and helping clients solve complex challenges across Defence and National Security? Join the Secure Team within ADS Consulting, where you'll lead high-impact consulting engagements across some of the UK's most critical programmes. As demand for our consulting services continues to grow, we're expanding our consulting capability to support clients navigating business transformation, digital change, Artificial Intelligence adoption and mission enablement challenges. You'll join a collaborative consulting team that values professional development, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement. Working within highly secure customer environments, you'll lead the delivery of client outcomes, build trusted stakeholder relationships and contribute to the growth of our consulting practice.
This role is based on customer sites in either Manchester, London or Cheltenham and requires full-time on-site working 5 days a week.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading consulting engagements across Defence, Security and wider public sector clients.
- Delivering business transformation, business change, service improvement, operating model design and digital transformation initiatives.
- Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and facilitating workshops, discovery sessions and engagement activities.
- Producing high-quality client deliverables, recommendations and reports while leading workstreams or multidisciplinary teams.
- Supporting business development activities, including bids, proposals, opportunity shaping and client growth.
- Contributing to consulting methodologies, reusable assets, capability development and the adoption of Artificial Intelligence-enabled approaches to consulting delivery.
What you'll bring:
- Experience leading consulting engagements, transformation programmes or business change initiatives.
- Experience working within Defence, Security, Government, Policing or other highly regulated environments.
- Experience leading workstreams, multidisciplinary teams or client-facing delivery activities.
- Experience building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders and facilitating workshops or discovery sessions.
- Experience supporting bids, proposals, business development or opportunity capture activities.
- Formal management consulting experience.
- Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience developing consulting propositions, methodologies, frameworks or reusable assets.
- Experience coaching, mentoring or developing consultants.
- Professional qualifications such as APMG Change Management, Prosci, BCS Business Analysis, PRINCE2, Agile Project Management, Managing Successful Programmes, TOGAF or similar.
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: Cheltenham.
Security Clearance Level: Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance.
Salary: £70,000 to £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. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
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.
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