Have you been looking for a senior consulting leadership role where you can shape major transformation, grow strategic accounts and influence the future of the UK Intelligence Community?
If you want to work in highly classified environments and play a key role in building a thriving Secure consulting capability, this opportunity could be for you.
In this role, you’ll help to grow Sopra Steria’s Secure and Defence Consulting practice, working closely with clients across the UK Intelligence Community, Defence and Secure Government. You’ll operate as a trusted advisor, shaping early‑stage opportunities and leading large‑scale programmes to successful delivery. You’ll also play an active part in developing our consulting capability, supporting colleagues to grow and thrive in this unique environment.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities.
Hybrid working applies, you will work remotely for day‑to‑day activities, with occasional travel to client sites when required, you will need to be based within 1hr commute of either Cheltenham or Manchester, and MUST hold ACTIVE eDV.
What you’ll be doing:
- Opening and expanding consulting opportunities across UKIC, Defence and Secure Government clients.
- Securing and building revenue growth pipelines using an established senior network.
- Building and maintaining senior partner relationships within highly classified environments.
- Shaping technology and digital transformation opportunities early in their lifecycle and leading bids to secure million‑pound‑scale engagements.
- Leading large‑scale transformation programmes and acting as senior escalation point.
- Overseeing consulting teams to ensure successful delivery against quality and revenue targets.
What you’ll bring:
- eDV clearance and experience operating within highly classified environments.
- Extensive experience as a Management Consultant.
- Credibility working with UKIC, Defence or Secure Government clients.
- A track record of winning and shaping million‑pound consulting engagements.
- An established senior partner network across Secure or Defence markets.
- Consulting leadership experience across technology or business transformation.
It would be great if you had:
- Experience across at least two Aerospace, Defence and Security sectors.
- Experience transitioning from delivery leadership into a growth‑focused role.
- Understanding of how to scale consulting propositions in Secure sectors.
- Knowledge of applications transformation, cloud modernisation or enterprise IT transformation.
- Experience mentoring or developing consulting talent within Secure markets.
If you’re interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!
Employment Type
Full‑time, Permanent.
Location
Based near Cheltenham or Manchester.
Security Clearance Level
MUST HOLD ACTIVE eDV.
Internal Recruiter
Soraya.
Salary
£90,000 – £120,000.
Benefits
- 20% bonus
- £6,600 car allowance
- 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days
- private medical
- life assurance
- pension
- generous flexible benefits fund
Flexibility at work
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 improve 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.
About the company
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.
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