Business Consulting Manager - eDV

Sopra Steria; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% bonus

Car allowance £5,400

25 days annual leave + buy extra days

Private medical

Life assurance

Pension

Flexible benefits fund

Job summary

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security arm seeks an experienced consultant to lead high-impact engagements across Defence and National Security. You’ll guide transformations, engage senior stakeholders, and help grow our consulting practice through active bidding and proposal work, all in secure environments.

The role is on-site at customer sites (Manchester, London or Cheltenham) with full-time hours and a strong emphasis on professional development and collaboration.

Qualifications

• Experience leading consulting engagements in Defence, Security or public sector.
• Experience working in highly regulated environments.
• Experience leading workstreams and multidisciplinary teams.
• Experience building relationships with senior stakeholders and running workshops.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals and opportunity capture.
• Formal management consulting experience.
• Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance.

Responsibilities

• Lead consulting engagements across Defence, Security and wider public sector clients.
• Deliver business transformation, change, service improvement and operating model design.
• Facilitate workshops, discovery sessions and engagement activities with senior stakeholders.
• Produce high-quality client deliverables and reports, leading workstreams or teams.
• Support bids, proposals and business development activities.
• Contribute to consulting methodologies and AI-enabled delivery.

Skills

Consulting experience

Defence/Regulated environments

Leading workstreams

Stakeholder management

Business development / bids

Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance

Management consulting background

Education

APMG Change Management

Prosci

BCS Business Analysis

PRINCE2

Agile Project Management

Managing Successful Programmes

TOGAF

Job description

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.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.

Location: Cheltenham.

Security Clearance Level:Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance.

Internal Recruiter: Soraya.

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 improves 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 us?

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 organization. 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.