Senior Business Transformation Consultant (SC Cleared)

Apex Talent Solutions; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 138,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid (Reading / Remote)

Initial 6-month engagement

GCAP exposure

Defence sector experience

Job summary

Apex Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Business Transformation Consultant to support GCAP work and mature the Digital Function within a secure defence environment. You will help shape operating models, governance, organisational effectiveness and business change across multiple value streams and engineering ecosystems.

The role involves strategic transformation, benefits realisation and senior stakeholder engagement, with hybrid working (Reading/remote) and a six-month engagement with

Qualifications

• Experience in large-scale digital transformation, engineering or organisational change.
• Strong knowledge of operating model design and governance.
• Experience with benefits management and realisation.
• Familiarity with portfolio visibility, prioritisation and executive reporting.
• Ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting large engineering, technology, Defence or Government organisations.

Responsibilities

• Support strategic transformation initiatives across the Digital Function.
• Implement and adopt Digital Operating Models.
• Develop governance frameworks and reporting structures.
• Contribute to workforce planning and demand management.
• Improve portfolio visibility and decision-making for value streams.
• Drive benefits management and realisation frameworks.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and organisational change.
• Promote Agile and modern ways of working.
• Align delivery with programme objectives and leadership priorities.

Skills

Large-scale transformation

Operating model design

Governance and org effectiveness

Benefits realisation

Stakeholder engagement

Defence/government sector experience

Job description

Senior Business Transformation Consultant - SC cleared & Sole British National

The work you deliver today will influence how one of the world's most significant defence programmes operates for years to come.

Our client is supporting the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) and is seeking an experienced transformation consultant to help shape the future Digital Function supporting the programme through improved operating models, governance, organisational effectiveness and business change.

Working within a highly secure and complex environment, you'll support Digital Leadership in improving how digital capabilities are organised, prioritised, governed and delivered across multiple value streams supporting a large-scale engineering and technology ecosystem.

This is not a traditional project or programme management position.

The role focuses on operating models, governance, benefits realisation, organisational effectiveness and helping a Digital Function mature in support of one of the UK's most strategically important defence initiatives.

What's in it for you

• Up to £750 per day contract rate, depending on experience
• Initial six-month engagement with strong possibility of extension.
• Hybrid working combining remote working with time in Reading.
• Opportunity to contribute directly to the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).
• Exposure to large-scale digital engineering, organisational transformation and governance initiatives.
• Work alongside senior Digital Leadership supporting future ways of working and organisational change across a high-profile defence programme.

Your responsibilities

• Support the delivery of strategic transformation initiatives across the Digital Function.
• Support the implementation and adoption of Digital Operating Models.
• Develop and improve governance frameworks, reporting structures and delivery processes.
• Contribute to organisational design, workforce planning and demand management activities.
• Support value streams and delivery teams through improved portfolio visibility and decision-making.
• Implement and enhance benefits management and benefits realisation frameworks.
• Drive stakeholder engagement and organisational change activity.
• Support the adoption of Agile and modern ways of working.
• Align delivery activity with wider programme objectives and Digital Leadership priorities.

What we're looking for

• Experience operating within large-scale digital transformation, engineering or organisational change environments.
• Strong knowledge of operating model design, governance and organisational effectiveness.
• Experience with benefits management, benefits realisation and value tracking.
• Familiarity with portfolio visibility, prioritisation, executive reporting and decision support.
• Ability to engage confidently with senior stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Experience supporting large engineering, technology, Defence or Government organisations.

Requirements

• Active SC Clearance (DV advantageous)
• Sole British National
• Hybrid working (Reading and remote)
• Available to start by September

Contract Details

• Full-time contract
• Initial 6-month engagement
• Inside IR35
• Up to £750 per day
• Hybrid (Reading / Remote)