Business Consultant

Daintta; Cheltenham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology consultancy is seeking a Business Consultant to work with clients in the defence and public sectors. The role involves engaging stakeholders, defining strategies, and delivering high-quality documents. Candidates should have consulting experience in data or cyber fields and eligibility for security clearance. This is a hybrid position based in Cheltenham or London.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of consulting experience, preferably in public sector.
• Proven track record in defence and government sectors.
• Eligibility for SC clearance.
• Strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Engage with senior stakeholders through interviews and workshops.
• Define strategies and business cases for technical programmes.
• Produce high-quality deliverables to timelines.
• Manage small multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Consulting experience in data, cyber or networks

Stakeholder management

Excellent written and verbal communication

Ability to work through complexity

Job description

You are a technically literate business consultant who can move seamlessly between strategy definition and hands-on business analysis. You'll work with defence, law enforcement, national security and central government clients, shaping technology-enabled change across data, cyber security and telecoms/networks. You'll translate complex technical issues into clear, defensible recommendations, build and maintain trusted stakeholder relationships, and drive delivery to time, cost and quality. You'll also help grow our consulting capability: developing propositions, winning work and coaching juniors.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage senior and practitioner level stakeholders, running interviews and workshops.
• Define strategies, target operating models and business cases for technical programmes.
• Perform structured business analysis: requirements, process mapping, options appraisal, benefits/business cases.
• Design and implement pragmatic improvement roadmaps, tracking delivery and realisation.
• Produce high-quality deliverables (reports, proposals, slideware) to agreed timelines.
• Lead or contribute to bids, frameworks and proposition development.
• Manage and support small multi-disciplinary teams (client and internal), providing direction and assurance.
• Support graduate/analyst consultants through coaching and mentorship.
• Maintain and extend client relationships. Identify and support new opportunities.
• Uphold and promote our values of being transparent, fair, and daring, both internally and externally.
  
  

Skills/Knowledge

Essential

• Consulting experience in our core areas of data, cyber or networks., preferably 3+ years.
• Proven track record in public sector (defence, LE, NS, central government) with SC/DV clearance or eligibility.
• Strong stakeholder management and facilitation e.g. through 1:1s and workshops.
• Excellent written and verbal communication. Able to communicate complexity succinctly.
• Comfortable with ambiguity and working through complexity.
  
  

Nice to have

• Business development experience: identifying opportunities and drafting compelling proposals.
• Solid grasp of technical concepts e.g. data architectures, security controls/assurance, network fundamentals.
  
  

Location?

Hybrid, with 2-3 days working from Daintta office (London or Cheltenham) or on client site as required.

Security Information

Due to the nature of this position, you must be willing and eligible to achieve a minimum of SC clearance. To qualify, you must be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years. For more information about clearance eligibility, please see https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/united-kingdom-security-vetting

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