Consultant - National Security / Defence

Consultant – National Security / Defence

eDV Cleared (or recently lapsed within 9 months)

Consultant | Senior Consultant | Managing Consultant

📍 London Hybrid – Client Site up to 3 Days per Week

💰 £60,000 – £68,000 + 5% Bonus + £5,000 DV Bonus

Security Clearance Requirement

Active UK Government eDV Clearance is essential.

Candidates whose eDV clearance has lapsed within the last 9 months may also be considered, with transfer/reinstatement support available.

About the Consultancy

This is an opportunity to join a highly respected, award-winning consultancy delivering transformation across National Security, Defence and Critical National Infrastructure programmes.

The consultancy itself is made up of an agile, experienced and highly diverse team of analysts, strategists and consultants who work alongside clients to solve genuinely complex operational and organisational challenges.

Their clients operate within some of the UK’s most secure and sensitive environments and are responsible for delivering nationally important capabilities and services.

Unlike traditional “big consultancy” models, this organisation operates differently.

Their clients are not paying for slide decks or consultancy theatre — they are investing in trusted people who can help them design, deliver and embed meaningful change successfully.

The culture is collaborative, hands-on and delivery-focused:

• Getting close to the problem
• Working alongside client teams
• Helping organisations deliver real operational outcomes
• Bringing structure, clarity and momentum to complex programmes

Many of the consultants have themselves experienced the impersonal nature of larger consultancies and deliberately chose a different approach — one built around trust, collaboration and delivery.

The Opportunity

You will join programmes focused on developing highly secure, nationally significant and operationally sensitive products and services across the UK National Security and Defence landscape. The work is meaningful, complex and often highly visible.

You will help clients:

• Shape and deliver transformation
• Improve operational effectiveness
• Bring innovative ideas into live service
• Navigate complexity within secure environments
• Deliver outcomes that genuinely matter

What You’ll Be Doing

• Building trusted relationships across technical, operational and senior stakeholder communities
• Leading workshops, stakeholder engagements and structured problem-solving sessions
• Translating complex requirements into clear, actionable outputs
• Producing high-quality written deliverables, reports and client briefings
• Supporting Agile delivery environments across Product, Project, Business Analysis and Business Change functions
• Analysing data and operational information to support evidence-based decision making
• Supporting transformation delivery across secure and complex programmes
• Contributing to internal capability growth, recruitment and consultancy development initiatives

What They’re Looking For

• Active eDV clearance (or previously held within the last 9 months)
• Experience operating within National Security, Defence, Government or Critical National Infrastructure environments
• Background in one or more of:
• Product Management
• Project Management
• Business Analysis
• Business Change
• Agile Delivery
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capability
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Comfortable operating within secure, high-pressure and complex delivery environments
• Strong stakeholder engagement capability

Previous consultancy experience is helpful but not essential. Strong delivery professionals from secure-sector environments looking to move into consulting are encouraged to apply.

What’s On Offer

• Competitive salary aligned to experience and consulting level
• 5% performance bonus
• £5,000 DV clearance bonus
• Private medical and dental cover
• 25 days annual leave plus additional gift days
• Salary sacrifice schemes including EV and childcare
• Structured learning, mentoring and certification support
• Clear progression framework across consulting grades
• Opportunity to work on nationally significant programmes with real-world impact

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to work on meaningful programmes alongside highly capable people within one of the UK’s most important and rapidly evolving sectors.

If you are looking for:

• Purposeful work
• Complex challenges
• High-trust client environments
• Genuine consulting exposure
• A collaborative and human-centred culture

then this is likely to be a very strong fit.

We welcome confidential conversations with suitable eDV-cleared professionals.