Lead Consultant - Defence

Leonardo UK Ltd; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 59,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous leave

Pension with employer contribution

Mental health support

Bonus scheme

Online learning access

Job summary

Leonardo UK Ltd is seeking a Lead Cyber Consultant to drive the capture, development and delivery of cyber consulting for the UK Ministry of Defence. You will lead a team of Cyber Consultants, engage in bid writing and business-winning activities, and work across Sales, Commercial and Finance to ensure client success.

This role supports a hybrid working model with on-site collaboration at offices or customer premises, enabling close teamwork with the wider Leonardo Cyber & Security Solutions

Qualifications

• Experience leading cyber consulting delivery for complex environments.
• Demonstrated ability to write technical responses to bids and proposals.
• Strong track record in cyber security and risk management.

Responsibilities

• Lead capture, development and delivery of cyber consulting for UK MoD.
• Oversee bid activities and support business winning.
• Manage a team of Cyber Consultants across grades; provide coaching.
• Collaborate with Sales, Commercial and Finance functions to enable delivery.

Skills

Leadership

Bid writing

Cyber security

Risk awareness

Stakeholder management

Education

Cyber security certifications

Job description

Job Description: Lead Consultant – Defence Salary Range: £59,400 - £90,000

Your impact

Your work at Leonardo UK will see you take the lead in solving customer problems in an agile, innovative and team-centric manner. The role may involve a blended hybrid working model, with a mixture of working from home and working on site at one of our Leonardo offices or customer premises to ensure close collaboration with the wider team and with our customers. Leonardo UK is seeking a Lead Cyber Consultant to join the Cyber & Security Solutions Division Consulting team. This role will involve leading the capture, development and delivery of our cyber consulting offering to the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD). This is a varied role that will involve a mixture of business winning and bid writing activity, project oversight, and product development, working in conjunction with other business functions as needed.

What you will do as a Defence Lead Consultant:

• Relate - Our customers and their problem are at the heart of what we do. As a Consultant you will help to actively listen and empathise with our customers to build intimacy.
• Understand – We add value by solving problems. As a Consultant you will help define potential solutions to these problems with only limited information based on your experience and technical knowledge.
• Assess – At Leonardo we adopt a risk-based approach to any security problem. As a Consultant you will need to understand and frame threats and other security concepts through the language of risk to help customers to make the link back to their objectives.
• Treat – Managing risk is the technical core of our offering. As a Consultant you will assist in defining appropriate and proportionate security solutions across people, process and technology, showing how those solutions enable customers to achieve their objectives.
• Assure – Giving our customers confidence that security is where it needs to be is a key requirement across heavily regulated industries. As a Consultant you will assist in defining, implementing and performing assessments of our customer’s environment against a given set of criteria spanning people, process and technology.
• Develop – All our offerings are based on a core set of products. As a consultant you will assist in building a viable offering as part of the Leonardo business winning process for a customer as well as help in the technical development of our products to be used across our customer sectors.
• Support and Manage - Line Management of a team of Cyber Consultants at various grades from Principal Consultant to Apprentice, providing performance management, training and pastoral care.
• Utilisation - Managing the day to day utilisation of your team.
• Business Winning - Support bid activities within Cyber Consulting and provide Cyber expertise and advice to wider business winning activities.

What you’ll bring

This is an exciting opportunity to be a core part of our campaign into MoD, with significant potential for further progression depending on the success of the campaign. You will work within the Cyber Consultancy Practice and in close conjunction with the Sales, Commercial and Finance functions within the business, as well as the Head of Cyber Consulting.

In addition to a passion for cyber and information security, you must have:

Skills Core consulting skills – building client relations; adaptability to changing schedules; reliability and quality of task delivery; flexibility in working hours and locations; team player.

Bid writing skills – demonstrable experience and ability to write technical responses to bids, ideally in a MoD context.

Specialist skills in any of: Risk and Governance and/or Security Architecture.

Qualifications

At least 2 Recognised professional certifications in Cyber Security such as CISM, CISSP, Sec+, CRISC, CASP, CEH. Chartered membership with a recognised cyber security body.

Knowledge and Demonstrable Experience

Significant experience of directly managing project delivery and associated metrics such as time, cost and quality. Experience of and ability to manage multiple stakeholders and their needs with empathy, finding an appropriate balance between listening and speaking. An ambitious and creative drive to help safeguard UK national security and become a recognised cyber expert. Demonstrated leadership experience, with the ability to guide teams and influence stakeholders. Technical bid writing experience ideally in a MoD context, including designing and communicating solutions to a customer problem articulated in a bid. Experience working with/for MoD and/or associated Arms Length Bodies and Agencies. Demonstrable experience in core security concepts. Specialisms can be either in Risk and Governance or Security Architecture, or a combination of security disciplines. Significant experience managing the pastoral and administrative components of consultants and People Leaders day to day. Ability to proactively contribute to Practice Management activities.

Security Clearance

This role is subject to pre-employment screening in line with the UK Government’s Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS). An additional range of Personnel Security Controls referred to as National Security Vetting (NSV) may apply, this could include meeting the eligibility requirements for The Security Check (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV).

For more information and guidance please visit: https://careers.uk.leonardo.com/gb/en/security-and-vetting

Why join us

At Leonardo, our people are at the heart of everything we do. We offer a comprehensive, company-funded benefits package that supports your wellbeing, career development, and work–life balance. Whether you're looking to grow professionally, care for your health, or plan for the future, we’re here to help you thrive.

• Time to Recharge: Enjoy generous leave with the opportunity to accrue up to 12 additional flexi-days each year.
• Secure your Future: Benefit from our award-winning pension scheme with up to 15% employer contribution.
• Your Wellbeing Matters: Free access to mental health support, financial advice, and employee-led networks championing inclusion and diversity (Enable, Pride, Equalise, Armed Forces, Carers, Wellbeing and Ethnicity).
• Rewarding Performance: All employees at management level and below are eligible for our bonus scheme.
• Never Stop Learning: Free access to 4,000+ online courses via Coursera and LinkedIn Learning.
• Refer a friend: Receive a financial reward through our referral programme.
• Tailored Per