Principal Consultant

Principal Consultant /Senior Consultant Defence

Salary: £60K to £90K 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

Principal Consultant /Senior Consultant Defence