Senior Business Consultant

Gravitas Group; Manchester; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Unlimited holiday

5% matched pension

Healthcare scheme

Job summary

Gravitas Group is seeking a Senior Business Consultant to deliver advisory engagements across Housing Associations, with a focus on HMS transformation and implementation. This hands-on role involves upgrades and data strategies, stakeholder management, and coaching junior consultants.

The position offers home-based work in the UK with travel to client sites as required, and a strong emphasis on building client relationships and delivering high-quality outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong experience delivering advisory/change engagements in the Housing sector.
• Understanding HA operations, technology landscape and regulatory drivers.
• Confident leading workshops, managing stakeholders, and owning deliverables end-to-end.
• Experience across HMS transformation / implementation (end-to-end is highly desirable).

Responsibilities

• Lead and deliver client engagements with limited escalation.
• Own project delivery: quality, stakeholder comms, planning/prioritisation.
• Strengthen client relationships and help identify follow‑on opportunities.
• Support junior consultants (coaching, feedback, knowledge sharing).
• Contribute to improving delivery ways of working and internal standards.

Skills

Advisory engagements

Housing sector experience

Stakeholder management

Workshop leadership

Delivery leadership

Tools

Microsoft Fabric

Databricks

M365

Azure

Job description

Senior Business Consultant (Social Housing)

Salary: £40,000–£45,000
Location:Home based, UK wide travel when required

We've partnered with agrowing consultancywho arehiring a Senior Business Consultant to deliver high-quality consulting engagements across Housing Associations—with a focus on HMS transformation and implementation. This is a hands‑on delivery role for someone with exposure to upgrades and implementations of housing products.This person will be collaborative, supportive of team development, and comfortable building strong client relationships.

What you’ll be working on

Projects typically include:

• HMS / systems procurement & implementation support
• IT, digital and data strategy work (incl. target operating models, roadmaps)
• Application portfolio and system reviews (often repairs-focused)
• Repairs & asset management advisory (regulatory and compliance-driven change)
• Data platform direction and migrations (e.g., Microsoft Fabric / Databricks—advisory/SME, not hands‑on build)
• Enterprise architecture, process / capability reviews

What you’ll do

• Lead and deliver client engagements with limited escalation
• Own project delivery: quality, stakeholder comms, planning/prioritisation
• Strengthen client relationships and help identify follow‑on opportunities
• Support junior consultants (coaching, feedback, knowledge sharing)
• Contribute to improving delivery ways of working and internal standards

What we’re looking for

Essential

• Strong experience delivering advisory / change engagements in the Housing sector
• Good understanding of HA operations, technology landscape and regulatory drivers
• Confident leading workshops, managing stakeholders, and owning deliverables end‑to‑end
• Experience across HMS transformation / implementation (end‑to‑end is highly desirable)

Nice to have

• Broader Microsoft ecosystem understanding: M365, Azure, AI strategy / Copilot guidance
• Repairs systems knowledge (e.g., Totalmobile, DRS, Plentific)

Working pattern & travel

• Hybrid setup; this will mainly be a remote set up, with travel to customer sites (all paid for).
• Some overnight travel may be required depending on client need

Benefits

• Unlimited holiday
• 5% matched pension
• Healthcare scheme

Interview process

• Stage 1: Intro conversation (remote or in‑person)
• Stage 2: In‑person session (Manchester/ London) including a short written exercise