Business Consulting Manager

Are you an experienced consultant who enjoys turning complex business and technology challenges into practical solutions that deliver meaningful results?

ADS Consulting delivers Business & Transformation and Technology Consulting services across government, defence and commercial clients. As our business continues to grow, we’re looking for a Business Consulting Manager who can lead complex assignments, build trusted client relationships and help develop our consulting practice.

You’ll take responsibility for client outcomes, delivery quality and commercial performance while leading multidisciplinary teams. Working with senior stakeholders, you’ll use evidence-based insight and constructive challenge to shape decisions and support sustainable change. You’ll also identify new and follow-on opportunities, coach colleagues and contribute to the development of our consulting propositions, methods and reusable assets.

The role can be based across the Southwest corridor within reach of Bristol, Reading or London. Our consultants are typically expected to work on-site with clients or from an office at least three days per week. This approach offers flexibility while supporting close collaboration, strong client relationships and high-quality delivery.

What you'll be doing:

• Leading complex consulting assignments, projects and workstreams to deliver successful client outcomes.
• Designing and implementing practical solutions to complex business and technology challenges.
• Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, providing constructive challenge and clear advice.
• Managing delivery against agreed scope, quality, timescales, budgets and commercial objectives, taking corrective action where required.
• Identifying and managing risks, issues and dependencies throughout delivery.
• Supporting business growth through opportunity qualification, proposals and follow-on work, while coaching colleagues and developing consulting propositions andmethods.

What you’ll bring:

• Existing Security Check clearance and willingness and eligibility to progress your security clearance where required.
• Experience leading consulting assignments, professional services engagements or comparable client-facing delivery.
• Proven experience delivering complex transformation, change, technology or business improvement initiatives.
• Experience leading project teams, workstreams or consulting engagements.Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience influencing senior stakeholders and securing support for complex business change.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and decision-making skills, alongside experience supporting bids, proposals or other business development activities.

It would be great if you had:

• Existing or ability to obtain DV clearance.
• Professional consulting accreditation.
• Relevant qualifications in project management, programme management, business analysis, change management, architecture or continuous improvement.
• Experience working within public sector, defence, national security or regulated environments.

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
Security Clearance Level: SC
Internal Recruiter: Alex
Salary: Competitive
Benefits: 10% bonus, £5,400 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

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.

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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.