Overview
In this senior role, you will shape user-centered digital and business transformation for clients, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders. You’ll blend strategic vision with hands-on delivery, guiding transformation programmes and cross-functional teams. The role spans advisory, pre-sales, and delivery, with a focus on turning complex problems into actionable outcomes. You’ll work across Version 1 to broaden impact, tell compelling value stories, and influence strategic direction.
Pay / Benefits
- Quarterly profit share scheme
- Career progression and mentorship programs
- Flexible/remote working
- Pension with 5% employee match
- Private healthcare
- Life assurance
Responsibilities
- Advise and deliver for clients with senior stakeholders
- Bring structure to ambiguous problems and connect strategy to execution
- Lead advisory engagements and work packages across TDG and Version 1
- Apply user-centered, evidence-led approaches balancing user needs, goals, and feasibility
- Adapt methods to client context and identify value from emerging technologies including AI
- Represent thinking through client conversations, case studies, networks, events and thought leadership
- Identify and shape opportunities with existing and new clients
- Lead and contribute to proposals, bids and market propositions with cross-functional teams
- Foster collaborative relationships across the organization to provide a joined-up client experience
- Coach colleagues and assure quality of transformation work
Key requirements
- 8+ years of experience in consulting or equivalent senior advisory environment
- Deep expertise in at least one TDG discipline (product management, service design, user research, user-centered design, business analysis, change, analytics)
- Ability to coach and connect disciplines
- Confidence engaging with senior/executive stakeholders and clear, constructive communication
- Ability to balance strategic direction with hands-on delivery
- Experience shaping opportunities, proposals and communicating value
- Commercial awareness and ability to balance customer outcomes with delivery realities
- Excellent written, facilitation and presentation skills
- Curious and analytical
- Collaborative and low ego
- Customer focused
- Product management
- Service design
- User research
Principal Strategy & Advisory Consultant in Birmingham employer: Version 1
At Version 1, we pride ourselves on being an award-winning employer that places our employees at the heart of everything we do. With a strong commitment to professional growth, inclusive culture, and work-life balance, we offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes private medical insurance, flexible working arrangements, and access to cutting-edge technology. Join us in a collaborative environment where your contributions are valued, and you can thrive in your career while making a meaningful impact in the insurance sector.
