Lead Civil Nuclear Consultant (Deputy Practice Lead)

Decision Analysis Services (DAS); Manchester; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Attractive salary

Private pension

Private healthcare for you and family

Private dentalcare

Death-in-service & income protection

25 days + bank holidays

Christmas closure

Environmental & community days

Udemy development platform

Job summary

Decision Analysis Services Limited (DAS) is seeking a senior, hands-on consultant to expand our footprint in the UK's civil nuclear sector. The role blends strategic development with delivery oversight and team development, offering you the chance to shape the growth strategy and directly support client programmes.

You'll work with senior stakeholders to identify opportunities, lead client propositions, and ensure delivery capability aligns with growth ambitions.

Qualifications

• Civil Nuclear Experience: 10+ years in the UK civil nuclear sector with strong knowledge and network.
• Management Consulting Expertise: delivering high-value programmes in regulated environments.
• Business Development Capability: identify, shape, and convert opportunities as trusted advisor.
• Stakeholder Confidence: navigate government, regulators, and infrastructure partners.
• Education: degree in STEM or business; postgraduate qualification desirable.

Responsibilities

• Shape and implement DAS's business development strategy in the civil nuclear sector, identifying new opportunities and market entry points.
• Leverage your established network to build relationships, generate opportunities, and guide the firm's market positioning.
• Spearheading client projects, applying management consulting expertise across strategy, transformation, stakeholder engagement, and operations.
• Supporting a team of colleagues in their professional development.
• Lead development of client propositions and bids that combine insight, impact, and innovation.
• Collaborate with internal teams to align delivery capability with growth ambitions, ensuring sustainable scale-up.

Skills

Civil Nuclear Experience

Management Consulting

Business Development

Stakeholder Engagement

Leadership

Education

STEM or Business Degree

Job description

• Location: Manchester or Bristol, with travel to client sites
• Contract: Full Time, Permanent
• Please be aware that all offers of employment will be subject to a UK Security Clearance check. To gain this you ordinarily need at least 6 years' UK residency. *

• Location: Manchester or Bristol, with travel to client sites
• Contract: Full Time, Permanent
• Please be aware that all offers of employment will be subject to a UK Security Clearance check. To gain this you ordinarily need at least 6 years' UK residency. *

Overview

Decision Analysis Services Limited (DAS) is an independent professional services company. Since 2007 we have provided services globally to more than 200 client organisations within the energy, defence, government, transport, and health sectors. Based in offices from Glasgow to Sydney, we support clients across five continents.

We specialise in bridging the gap between strategic planning and operational execution, developing enduring solutions to the uniquely complex issues faced by our clients. We are experts in programme management, systems thinking, investment modelling, machine learning, and data analysis. These unique skills, coupled with our extensive experience of engineering, regulatory practices and operations delivery enable us to develop sustainable, long-term solutions for our clients.

The Role

You will be instrumental in expanding our footprint across the UK's rapidly growing civil nuclear sector. This senior, hands-on role blends strategic business development with delivery oversight and team development, offering you the opportunity to shape our civil nuclear growth strategy, steer the direction of the department, and directly support client programmes. This is not a hard sales role - it's about trusted relationship-building, opportunity shaping, and delivering lasting value through insight-led consulting.

You'll operate with a high level of autonomy and influence, supporting the growth of the team and working alongside senior stakeholders to define where and how we grow.

Your key responsibilities will include:

• Alongside the Practice Lead, shape and implement DAS's business development strategy in the civil nuclear sector, identifying new opportunities and market entry points
• Leverage your established network to build relationships, generate opportunities, and guide the firm's market positioning
• Spearheading client projects, applying your management consulting expertise across strategy, transformation, stakeholder engagement, and operations
• Supporting a team of colleagues in their professional development
• Lead development of client propositions and bids that combine insight, impact, and innovation
• Collaborate with internal teams to align delivery capability with growth ambitions, ensuring sustainable scale-up

Requirements

To succeed in this role, you'll bring a mix of commercial acumen, management consulting expertise, and deep sector knowledge and enthusiasm. We're looking for someone who blends strategic insight with credibility and influence in the civil nuclear space. We anticipate this role will be a good fit for a Principal Consultant or Managing Consultant looking for the next step in their career, where there is the opportunity to follow your interests and shape how and when the team grows. You might have a background in programme management, organisational design, business cases, strategy, operations improvement or similar, but most importantly you'll have a consultancy toolkit that allows you to take on a wide range of client challenges.

You will bring:

• Civil Nuclear Experience: likely 10+ years in the UK civil nuclear sector with strong knowledge of the ecosystem (new build, regulation, policy, infrastructure) and an influential industry network
• Management Consulting Expertise: Experience delivering high-value programmes across strategy, transformation, or organisational design within regulated environments
• Business Development Capability: Proven ability to identify, shape, and convert opportunities—not as a transactional sales lead, but as a trusted advisor
• Stakeholder Confidence: Comfortable navigating complex environments involving government, regulators, and infrastructure partners, with outstanding relationship-building skills
• Education: A degree in a STEM or business discipline is essential; a postgraduate qualification is desirable

Benefits

In return for your skills and capabilities, we offera genuinely people focussed culture. DAS is dedicated to offering more than just a job. We're committed to cultivating your professional development and success. Employee wellbeing is at the forefront of our thinking. We actively support a healthy work-life balance and champion workplace flexibility, enabling you to prioritise the things that matter to you.

• Attractive salary, reflective of skills and experience
• Private pension, private healthcare for you and your immediate family, and private dentalcare
• Death-in-service and income protection schemes
• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays, and additional days to work on environmental and community activities
• Discretionary office closure over Christmas
• Personal carbon offset through company scheme
• Access to professional and personal development platform, Udemy

DAS is an Equal Opportunities employer. We support the principle of Equality and Diversity in employment wholeheartedly and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination. We commit to providing equality, fairness, and respect for all in our employment, and all those seeking employment at DAS.