Principal Consultant / Senior Consultant– Defence
Salary: £50,000 to £90,000 according to your level of experience, plus bonus and excellent benefits
Location: Winchester, Hampshire
Our client is looking for a positive and enthusiastic customer facing Principal Consultant with a passion for digital enablement and for helping clients succeed. This is an excellent opportunity to join their team and become an integral part of a small, agile, and growing business.
As part of the team, you will work with their consultants, analysts and clients at all levels on a number of projects. You will work across different industries, initially focusing within Defence in the UK.
Job role for the Principal Consultant will include:
- Working directly with clients as a lead business analyst
- Leading technical architecture, solution design and implementation management
- Contributing to the development and growth of their digital enablement and data analysis capabilities
- Developing and managing client relationships
- Building and managing relationships with digital suppliers and associates
Experience working with Dstl, Defence Digital, DE&S, Frontline Commands or UK Defence industry.
Initial clients will be based around key UK Defence establishments in the south of England.
Skills/Qualifications & Experience required for role of Principal Consultant:
We believe skills and experience of the following will enable you to excel in this role:
- A delivery mindset with a passion for delivering high quality, high impact projects.
- Leading client interactions and building trusted-advisor relationships, with new and existing clients, on both short term and long-term engagements.
- Experience eliciting requirements and defining business processes in complex environments.
- Advanced data analysis in Excel, including VBA
- Decision making techniques and processes
- Operating models and organisational design
- Experience of Microsoft365, SharePoint, PowerBI, Dataverse and PowerApps solutions.
- Understanding of data science, data analysis and visualisation tools and best practice.
- Knowledge of current software development using Python
- Effectively managing delivery teams to deliver high quality results.
- Interest and knowledge of technology and analysis approaches and best practice.
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- A positive and flexible approach to your work.
- The ability to engage and enthuse personnel, and provide effective support and challenge, across all areas and at all levels within client organisations.
- A preference for building and working within teams.
- Qualifications:Degree, MBA or equivalent experience, Project Management qualification e.g. APMP would be useful
Current or recent UK Defence Security Clearance (SC) would be beneficial
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Principal Consultant / Senior Consultant – Defence