Management Consultant - National Security

Accenture; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm is seeking a Management Consultant in People Consulting for National Security. You will work on transformative projects to enhance client capabilities, leveraging innovative solutions and data-driven approaches. The ideal candidate should possess strong analytical skills, strategic thinking capabilities, and experience with National Security clients. This position offers an engaging work environment, where flexibility and creativity are highly valued, along with competitive salary and benefits.

Benefits

30 days vacation per year

Private medical insurance

3 extra days leave for charitable work

Qualifications

• Ability to contribute to a community and clients as practitioners.
• Strong communication skills to engage clients and influence outcomes.
• Experience in working with National Security clients.

Responsibilities

• Transform the Workforce across National Security clients.
• Drive growth of people consulting capabilities in National Security.
• Work with senior stakeholders to advise and coach clients.

Skills

Analytical problem‑solving skills

Strategic thinking

Change management

Leadership Development

Workforce Transformation

Job description

Role

Management Consultant – People Consulting – National Security

Location

London, Manchester, Cheltenham

Mobility

Up to 100%

Career Level

Consultant

Clearance requirements

Applicants must hold current National Security Vetting aligned to a National Security organisation.

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge.

We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

Our National Security team is a successful, growing and high-performing part of our Public Sector Strategy & Consulting practice. Within the practice, you will work on innovative projects with colleagues and clients to drive excellence from strategy through to implementation, making changes that directly impact citizens. You will be using the latest technologies and methodologies with clients to help them achieve tangible outcomes and accelerate value.

We work closely with cutting-edge research and development, major hyperscalers, and leading technology players, bringing the best of Accenture’s partnerships and innovation ecosystem to solve our clients’ most complex challenges. Do you want to work in an environment that is cutting-edge, collaborative and challenging, doing work that really matters?

You’ll learn, grow and advance in a collaborative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. At Accenture, you can truly take control of your own career.

If you’re looking for a challenging career working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of experts, this could be the role for you.

In our team you will learn

• How to develop and deliver solutions to real world problems, partnering with clients to achieve positive outcomes through collaboration
• How to maximise the use of data in everything you do, using this data to drive solutions and tell meaningful stories to our clients
• How to lead with user‑centricity at the heart of our work

As a Management Consultant, you will

• Work on projects to transform the Workforce across our National Security clients
• Drive growth of our people consulting capabilities in our National Security practice
• Be the face of Accenture to the client in your engagements, working with senior stakeholders to advise, challenge and coach as needed
• Develop detailed understanding of your client’s business and drive issue-based discussions grounded in a clear understanding of client challenges and barriers.
• Cultivate trust‑based client relationship(s)
• Identify and address client business issues through root cause analysis and by applying pragmatic, results‑driven problem‑solving techniques and creative insights.
• Use a human‑centred approach to solve problems, frame opportunities, and achieve innovation through collaboration and co‑creation
• Own streams of complex work that meets client expectations on delivering value‑centric, data‑driven outcomes

We are looking for experience in the following skills

The most important thing for us is that you display the right attitude. We would like you to actively contribute to our community and clients as practitioners, grow our practice, think logically to tackle problems and engage others. We want you to be driven to develop yourself and others, an ability to see and articulate the bigger picture of how individual projects and deliverables create value for citizens and a passion for innovation and the latest technology trends. This role will require creative thinking, excellent client communication skills and the ability to identify new innovative ways to apply our skills and services to solve a wider set of client problems.

Experience in more than one of the following areas

• Analytical problem‑solving skills and continuous improvement techniques
• Strategic thinking skills and the ability to bring insight to complex problems
• Designing and/or implementing operating models/organisation design
• Change management
• Leadership Development
• Culture Advisory
• Workforce Transformation
• Experience of working with National Security clients
• Experience identifying growth opportunities
• Ability to operate at all stages of a project/programme lifecycle, from proposal through to full programme delivery, and experience managing risks and working with senior client partners.
• Working with data in the design or delivery of consulting services in National Security
• Working with technology to design or deliver transformation in National Security
• Strong interpersonal skills

Set yourself apart

• In‑depth understanding of the National Security landscapes you have worked in
• Experience in owning and managing relationships with leadership (either with your clients or internal stakeholders)
• Trained in Change Management or Agile methodologies, programme or project management techniques (e.g. Prince 2, Managing Successful Programmes) and/or a Design Thinking practitioner

What’s in it for you

• At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice!

Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.