Senior Defence Consultant: Strategy & Transformation Lead

Actica Consulting Limited; Guildford; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days leave

Discretionary bonus

Stakeholder pension

Cycle to work scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Electric Car leasing Scheme

Job summary

Actica Consulting Limited in Guildford is seeking a Senior Business Consultant (Defence) to help organisations solve complex challenges, deliver transformation, and improve how they operate. You will work on Defence programmes across government and industry, building trusted client relationships and delivering evidence-based recommendations.

With 2–5 years’ experience, you’ll lead workstreams, support junior colleagues and contribute to Actica’s Defence capabilities while developing your

Qualifications

• Experience working within, or delivering services to, the UK Defence sector.
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems and develop practical, evidence-based solutions.
• Strong analytical, written and verbal communication skills.
• Confidence building credibility and working collaboratively with stakeholders at different levels of seniority.
• Experience planning or facilitating workshops, interviews or stakeholder engagement.
• The ability to manage priorities, work with a high degree of autonomy and take responsibility for quality and outcomes.
• Experience working effectively in multidisciplinary teams and supporting the development of others.

Responsibilities

• Lead defined workstreams and smaller consulting assignments from problem definition through to delivery.
• Work with clients to understand their objectives, operating environment and underlying challenges.
• Structure complex or ambiguous problems and develop clear, evidence-based recommendations.
• Undertake qualitative and quantitative analysis to support decisions and delivery.
• Produce high-quality reports, presentations, strategies, business cases, operating models and other client deliverables.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, interviews and stakeholder meetings.
• Identify and communicate delivery risks, dependencies and opportunities.
• Build credible relationships with military, Civil Service, Defence delivery organisation and industry stakeholders.
• Coordinate small teams or multidisciplinary workstreams and support the development of junior colleagues.
• Contribute to proposals, client presentations, case studies and the development of Actica’s Defence capabilities.

Skills

UK Defence sector experience

Ambiguity framing

Analytical communication

Stakeholder management

Workshop facilitation

Autonomy & prioritisation

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Job description

Actica Consulting Limited in Guildford is seeking a Senior Business Consultant (Defence) to help organisations solve complex challenges, deliver transformation, and improve how they operate. You will work on Defence programmes across government and industry, building trusted client relationships and delivering evidence-based recommendations.

With 2–5 years’ experience, you’ll lead workstreams, support junior colleagues and contribute to Actica’s Defence capabilities while developing your