Senior Business Consultant -eDV

Sopra Steria; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Health cash plan

Life assurance

Pension

Job summary

Sopra Steria's ADS Consulting Secure Team in Cheltenham is seeking an experienced business change professional to deliver transformation across Defence and National Security programmes on client sites. You will facilitate workshops, produce high‑quality client deliverables and reports, and support business development while adopting emerging technologies, including AI, in highly secure environments.

Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance required.
• Experience delivering business change or consulting assignments.
• Experience in Defence, Security, Government or regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and workshop facilitation.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills.
• Commercial awareness and client mindset.

Responsibilities

• Delivering business change, transformation and service improvement engagements across Defence and National Security clients.
• Supporting the adoption and implementation of emerging technologies, including AI-enabled solutions.
• Facilitating workshops, stakeholder engagement activities and discovery sessions to identify challenges and develop practical solutions.
• Producing high-quality client deliverables, recommendations and reports.
• Supporting business development activities, including proposals, opportunity shaping and client engagement.
• Contributing to consulting methodologies, best practice frameworks and capability development across the ADS Consulting practice.

Skills

DV clearance

Business change experience

Defence/regulatory sector

Stakeholder engagement

Analytical/problem-solving

Commercial awareness

Education

Business change / PM / BA qualifications

Job description

Are you an experienced business change professional looking to make a real impact across Defence and National Security programmes?

Join the Secure Team within ADS Consulting, where you'll help clients solve complex challenges, deliver transformation initiatives and support the adoption of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence. Demand for our consulting services continues to grow, and we're building our consulting capability to support exciting opportunities across the Aerospace, Defence and Security sector.

You'll work alongside experienced consultants in a collaborative and supportive environment that encourages continuous learning, knowledge sharing and professional development.

This role is based on customer sites in Cheltenham, working full time on site within highly secure environments.

You'll have the opportunity to contribute to mission-critical programmes that support some of the UK's most important national objectives.

What you'll be doing:

• Delivering business change, transformation and service improvement engagements across Defence and National Security clients.
• Supporting the adoption and implementation of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence-enabled solutions.
• Facilitating workshops, stakeholder engagement activities and discovery sessions to identify challenges and develop practical solutions.
• Producing high-quality client deliverables, recommendations and reports.
• Supporting business development activities, including proposals, opportunity shaping and client engagement.
• Contributing to consulting methodologies, best practice frameworks and capability development across the ADS Consulting practice.

What you'll bring:

• Active Enhanced Developed Vetting clearance.
• Experience delivering business change, transformation, business analysis or consulting assignments.
• Experience working within Defence, Security, Government, Policing or other highly regulated environments.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills with experience facilitating workshops and discovery activities.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving capability.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of client and business needs.

It would be great if you had:

• Experience supporting the adoption of emerging technologies and Artificial Intelligence solutions.
• Experience contributing to bids, proposals or business development activities.
• Experience supporting capability development, knowledge sharing or mentoring activities.
• Professional qualifications in business change, project management or business analysis disciplines.

Employment Type: Full-time, Permanent.

Location: Cheltenham.

Security Clearance Level: Active Enhanced Developed Vetting (eDV) clearance.

Internal Recruiter: Soraya.

Salary: £50,000 to £70,000.

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, and pension.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you’re interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Sopra Steria’s Aerospace, Defence and Security business designs, develops and deploys digital solutions to Central Government clients. The work we do makes a real difference to the client’s goal of National Security, and we operate in a unique and privileged environment. We are given time for professional development activities, and we coach and mentor our colleagues, sharing knowledge and learning from each other. We foster a culture in which employees feel valued and supported and have pride in their work for the customer, delivering outstanding rates of customer satisfaction in the UK’s most complex safety- and security-critical markets.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.