Group Leader - Data Science and Modelling

KBR Careers; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

25 days holiday + option to buy 5 days

Flexible working

Company pension scheme

Private healthcare

Professional development

Cycle to work

Rail season ticket loan

Job summary

Frazer-Nash Consultancy is seeking a Group Leader to shape and grow its Supply Chain Consultancy Group with a clear strategic direction. You will set its identity, develop capabilities, and secure high-quality, sustainable consulting work while fostering an inclusive professional community across multiple locations.

You will lead, coach and develop consultants, translate client needs into services, and build trusted relationships with senior stakeholders to drive growth and ensure client success.

Qualifications

• Significant experience across supply chain and procurement strategy, delivery, and assurance.
• Experience leading, developing, and growing a professional team, service line, or consulting capability.
• The ability to identify market and client needs and translate them into relevant services, propositions, and capability development plans.
• A track record of building senior client relationships and securing consulting or advisory work.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing supply chain, procurement, commercial, or consulting professionals.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to balance people, capability, delivery, and business priorities.
• Experience providing assurance on complex programmes and advising senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, with a commitment to building and maintaining a strong professional community.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Defining and delivering the strategy and growth plan for the Supply Chain Consultancy Group.
• Creating a strong and inclusive professional community with a clear sense of purpose and identity.
• Managing, coaching and developing consultants across multiple sectors, projects and locations.
• Evolving our Supply Chain Advisory, Delivery and Assurance services to meet changing client and market needs.
• Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and industry partners.
• Shaping opportunities, developing propositions and supporting business growth activities.
• Positioning Frazer-Nash to secure and deliver high-quality, sustainable consulting work.
• Providing leadership, governance and assurance across complex supply chain engagements.
• Managing capability planning, recruitment, deployment, succession and performance.
• Supporting the wellbeing, engagement and career development of our people.
• Contributing to consultancy delivery through strategic advice, assurance and client support where appropriate.

Skills

Supply chain strategy

Procurement strategy

Delivery

Assurance

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Commercial awareness

Consulting capabilities

Job description

Title: Group Leader - Supply Chain Salary: £70,000 - £90,000 per annum Location: Bristol, Plymouth or Burton preferred, although we will consider candidates based at another Frazer-Nash office Working Pattern: We operate a flexible hybrid working pattern at Frazer-Nash Closing Date: 23rd October 2026 We encourage early applications, as vacancies may close once we receive sufficient applications.

INTEREST

Shape our Supply Chain Consultancy strategy.

Strengthen critical supply chains.

Enable our people to thrive.

At Frazer-Nash, we help organisations solve complex challenges to create a more sustainable, secure and resilient future.

Our Supply Chain Consultants help clients design, deliver and assure the supply chains needed to deliver critical programme outcomes.

We combine strategic advice with practical delivery experience across supply chain strategy, sourcing and procurement, supplier performance, governance, risk and resilience.

We are seeking a Group Leader to shape the future of our Supply Chain Consultancy Group.

You will set its strategic direction, develop the capabilities needed to meet changing client demand and position Frazer-Nash to secure and deliver sustainable, high-quality work.

Central to the role will be creating a clear sense of purpose and belonging.

You will build an inclusive professional community in which people are connected, understand the contribution they make and are supported to develop rewarding careers.

The Opportunity

As Group Leader, you will define the strategy, identity and growth of our Supply Chain Consultancy Group.

Working with Business Change leaders, market leads and colleagues across Frazer-Nash, you will identify emerging client needs and translate them into distinctive services, capabilities and growth opportunities.

You will manage the development of our Supply Chain Advisory, Delivery and Assurance services, ensuring they remain relevant, impactful and valuable to clients.

You will build trusted relationships with senior clients, shape strategic opportunities and support the growth of our consulting portfolio.

Alongside this, you will create an environment in which people can thrive.

Through visible and inclusive leadership, you will promote a clear sense of community, support professional development and help our consultants build rewarding and meaningful careers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Defining and delivering the strategy and growth plan for the Supply Chain Consultancy Group.
• Creating a strong and inclusive professional community with a clear sense of purpose and identity.
• Managing, coaching and developing consultants across multiple sectors, projects and locations.
• Evolving our Supply Chain Advisory, Delivery and Assurance services to meet changing client and market needs.
• Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and industry partners.
• Shaping opportunities, developing propositions and supporting business growth activities.
• Positioning Frazer-Nash to secure and deliver high-quality, sustainable consulting work.
• Providing leadership, governance and assurance across complex supply chain engagements.
• Managing capability planning, recruitment, deployment, succession and performance.
• Supporting the wellbeing, engagement and career development of our people.
• Contributing to consultancy delivery through strategic advice, assurance and client support where appropriate.

REQUIREMENTS

Essential Experience

• Significant experience across supply chain and procurement strategy, delivery, and assurance.
• Experience leading, developing, and growing a professional team, service line, or consulting capability.
• The ability to identify market and client needs and translate them into relevant services, propositions, and capability development plans.
• A track record of building senior client relationships and securing consulting or advisory work.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing supply chain, procurement, commercial, or consulting professionals.
• Strong commercial awareness, with the ability to balance people, capability, delivery, and business priorities.
• Experience providing assurance on complex programmes and advising senior stakeholders.
• A collaborative and inclusive leadership style, with a commitment to building and maintaining a strong professional community.
• Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills.

Desirable Experience

• Supply chain strategy and transformation.
• Procurement and sourcing.
• Supplier relationship and performance management.
• Supply chain risk, resilience, and continuity planning.
• Governance, assurance, and commercial management.
• Delivery of complex business change or transformation programmes.

Due to the nature of the work that Frazer-Nash Consultancy undertake, candidates will be required to undergo pre-employment screening and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK National Security Vetting.

BENEFITS

• Competitive salary with yearly reviews
• 25 days holiday + the opportunity to buy 5 days.
• A company that has its heart in the right place and a welcoming work culture.
• Happy to talk flexible working
• Enhanced parental benefits
• Company pension scheme
• Targeted professional development
• Life assurance
• Private healthcare membership
• Bonus scheme linked into company performance
• Paid membership fees to a professional institution
• Support in attaining professional membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Season rail ticket loan
• And further optional benefits you can tailor to your personal requirements

Frazer-Nash is a leading systems, engineering and technology company.

We help organisations deliver innovative engineering and technology solutions to make lives safe, secure, sustainable, and affordable.

With over 1000 employees, we work from a network of nine UK and four Australian locations.

Our people apply their expertise to develop, enhance and protect our clients' critical assets, systems and processes.

We use our skills and talents to ensure a sustainable future for society.

Our work helps deliver a safe and secure world, where natural resources are conserved, and clean energy is available to all.

And we focus on actions to reduce climate change; supporting rapid and far-reaching transformations in the delivery of energy, security, industry, and transport.

At the heart of our business are a set of self-defined core values.

These are part of our DNA and we’re committed to upholding them – internally as part of our Frazer-Nash family; in the way we work with our customers; and when we engage with the wider world.

We care

At Frazer-Nash, we care about each other; always looking to collaborate and see things from the other person’s point of view

We offer mutual support, learn from one another, and work as a team to deliver the best results

Everyone has a voice, and we all make the time to listen

We will work with openness and collaborate effectively – thinking about our clients and our people, and responding to their needs

We care about the difference we make to the wider world.

We are trusted

Effective collaboration is founded upon trust. We earn the trust of our customers and colleagues by delivering on the commitments we have made to them.

We deliver success

We deliver value and success to our customers and to our business.

We continually strive to be the best at what we do.

We want to do things that matter

We seek out interesting and satisfying work that helps makes a difference in society

We use our expertise to provide trusted, impartial professional advice to our clients

By making a difference to today, we benefit the world of tomorrow – so we can all go home each day knowing that we’ve done something that really mattered.