25 of 25 Contract Strategic Thinking Jobs in the UK excluding London

UX Design Team Lead

Hiring Organisation
Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£70,000
delivery environment and work in partnership with Product Owners, Developers, Content Designers and SMEs to deliver an outstanding experience design capability. This is a strategic leadership role that combines creative hands-on design expertise with the people leadership. Why join us now? We are at a very exciting place … that improves outcomes for our customers. You will - Lead, coach, mentor and develop a team of 12 UX designers to build their practice, maturity, strategic thinking skills and confidence Act as a role model, demonstrating exceptional levels of skill in collaboration, constructive challenge and strategic thinking ...

Senior Service Designer

Hiring Organisation
Yorkshire Building Society (YBS)
Location
Leeds, West Yorkshire, Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£70,000
will be part of the Service Design Team working across YBS customer facing channels including digital, telephony and retail. You will contribute to strategic thinking across all customer channels (Digital, Retail, Customer Services) and drive Service innovation, across channels, for the YBS group. This role will focus … part of a community of best practice for Service Design that extends beyond the team to driving uptake and engagement in service design thinking across YBS About you You will be a brilliant communicator, skilled at influencing stakeholders. Youll know how to work collaboratively to advocate passionately on behalf ...

Delivery Manager - Public Sector

Hiring Organisation
Hackajob Ltd
Location
South West London, London, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
workstream cloud transformation programs for AWS ProServe. This role requires a seasoned Agile leader who can establish scaled Agile practices, mentor teams, and drive strategic outcomes. The ideal candidate combines deep Agile expertise with strategic thinking, technical depth, and the ability to influence at executive levels. … sprint teams Coach Engagement Managers and team leads on advanced Agile facilitation techniques Analyze program-level metrics (velocity trends, predictability, flow efficiency) to drive strategic improvements Facilitate dependency management and integration planning across workstreams Establish Agile Centers of Excellence and define best practices for AWS ProServe delivery Drive continuous ...

Business Case Specialist

Hiring Organisation
Addition
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£600 per day
immigration and digital infrastructure programmes. This is an excellent opportunity for a commercially and financially astute professional to play a key role in securing strategic approval and funding for nationally significant programmes. We’re particularly interested in candidates with proven experience developing business cases in accordance with HM Treasury … Green Book guidance and the Five Case Model. The Opportunity As Business Case Specialist, you’ll lead the development of robust Strategic Outline Cases, Outline Business Cases and Full Business Cases across a portfolio of complex programmes. Working closely with financial, commercial, technical and project delivery stakeholders ...

Commercial Consultant / Fractional Sales Lead

Hiring Organisation
XPERT RECRUITMENT SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Location
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
traditional sales role . We are looking for a seasoned commercial professional who can step into an established business, take a strategic view of its current sales and business development activity, identify opportunities for growth and then roll their sleeves up and deliver. The Opportunity The business is looking … with existing clients and identifying opportunities to increase engagement across the wider service offering. Reviewing and improving sales processes, reporting and performance measures. Supporting strategic tenders, bids and partnership opportunities where appropriate. Identifying opportunities for strategic partnerships and routes to market. Working closely with internal technical and operational ...

Service Design & Transformation

Hiring Organisation
Hays Technology
Location
Glasgow, City of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550/day £550pd - Inside IR35 - Remote
Ability to make evidence-based design decisions and confidently explore multiple solution options. Experience of creating and testing prototypes using appropriate methods and tools. Strategic thinking with the ability to focus on long-term outcomes rather than short-term activities. Strong understanding of accessible and inclusive service design ...

Head of Business Change (eDV)

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Government and Defence
Location
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £850 per day
role shapes how value is defined, how change is designed and how benefits are sustained in operation, ensuring a clear line of sight from strategic intent to service performance and continual improvement. How the Role Contributes Across Think/Plan/Do/Run Think: sets the analysis … change strategy, leading definition of outcomes, benefits frameworks, strategic priorities and value propositions Plan: oversees the use of user journeys, value streams, target operating models, service design and governance to shape deliverable change Do: assures implementation, service transition, readiness, sequencing and organisational adoption across multiple workstreams Run: ensures performance ...

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Architect

Hiring Organisation
Diana Duggan UK Limited
Location
Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£450 per day
native technologies and best practices Mentor and develop junior and mid-level engineers through code review, design collaboration, and knowledge-sharing activities Contribute to strategic initiatives that shape the firm's cloud platform standards, CI/CD maturity, and infrastructure-as-code practices Build and operate resilient, highly-scalable ...

Senior UX Researcher (Software Platform)

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£700 per day
strategy with our Product Team. In full: Job purpose: Leading any UX research initiative which have been flagged as high priority or highly strategic projects. This may include leading a team of researchers to ensure that timelines and quality of research conducted is met to a high standard. Responsibilities … supporting role to help project teams define, influence, and drive the user experience vision for projects. * Manage agency relationships for key projects, while also thinking about how to build internal capabilities to drive a customer centric culture. * Work closely with the Product and UX Design teams to ensure research ...

Senior Commercial Manager

Hiring Organisation
Morson Edge
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
addition, the following are key expectations of the Senior Commercial Manager in fulfilling the role - • Responsibility for all commercial artefacts, tasks and obligations • Strategic thinking and applying a portfolio-wide evaluation of topics and problems to ensure interdependencies and cross-programme impacts are appropriately managed • Proactively anticipates risks ...

Data Product Owner

Hiring Organisation
Experis
Location
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£600 - £652/day
actively seek to expand your knowledge about their needs, helping to shape understanding through personas, aligned to Data Culture and Data Literacy initiatives. A strategic thinker, able to take an idea through to execution with a natural problem solving ability within complex environments. Naturally inquisitive, with a desire ...

IT Programme Director

Hiring Organisation
Marks Sattin
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£1,250 - £1,500 per day
case experience. Experience influencing and engaging C-suite and executive-level stakeholders. Ability to establish programme structures and delivery plans from inception. Personal Attributes Strategic thinker with a hands-on approach to delivery. Strong leadership and stakeholder management skills. Excellent communicator with strong storytelling and influencing capabilities. Collaborative, pragmatic ...

Interim Governance and Operations Manager

Hiring Organisation
Panoramic Associates
Location
Luton, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
GBP Annual
projects relating to estates, IT, compliance and organisational improvement. Contribute to operational planning associated with Trust growth and organisational change. Support senior leaders with strategic and operational projects as required. About You We are looking for someone who has: Degree-level education or equivalent professional experience. Significant experience supporting … solutions-focused, with the confidence to advise senior leaders while remaining approachable and supportive. You'll enjoy working in a fast-paced environment, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, and will be motivated by making a positive impact across our schools. Why Join Us? This ...

Product Lead (Data/Telco)

Hiring Organisation
Cedar Recruitment
Location
Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £550 per day
comfortable working in fast-paced Agile environments, leading Scrum teams and influencing stakeholders across both business and technology. You'll combine strategic product thinking with a hands-on approach to delivery, using data and customer insight to shape product direction and deliver measurable business value. If you have ...

Data Innovation Business Analyst

Hiring Organisation
Pontoon
Location
Warwick, Warwickshire, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500/day
delivering innovation and rapid prototypes. Exceptional storytelling skills, with a passion for creating impactful content (e.g., video editing, insight visualisation). A proactive, strategic thinker with a bias for execution. A commercial mindset, understanding value identification and business opportunities. Are you naturally curious? Do you thrive in fast-paced ...

Senior CRM Campaign Strategist

Hiring Organisation
Sanderson Recruitment
Location
Bristol, Avon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
major new service launch planned, this is an exciting opportunity to make a tangible commercial impact. We're looking for someone who combines strategic CRM thinking with hands-on campaign execution and automation expertise, ideally within a regulated Financial Services environment. The Role You will work closely with ...

Finance Transformation and Systems Manager (18 month FTC)

Hiring Organisation
EA FIRST LTD
Location
Coventry, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£70,000 per annum
provider. This transformation will include introducing a new finance system, improving integration with wider organisational systems and developing stronger reporting capabilities to support both strategic decision making and regulatory compliance. It is an excellent time to join an organisation where finance transformation is firmly on the agenda and where … growth or regulatory change would be particularly advantageous. Knowledge of the RSH regulatory framework and financial viability standards is desirable. You will be a strategic thinker with a strong delivery focus, able to lead change and influence stakeholders at different levels. Strong analytical, problem-solving and communication skills will ...

Cyber Security Operations Manager

Hiring Organisation
Certain Advantage
Location
Exeter, Devon, South West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
£800 per day
Cyber Security Operations Manager Exeter REMOTE £800 per day Umbrella Initially 6-month contract Mon-Fri Certain Advantage is working in partnership with a leading public organisation seeking an SOC Manager to design, implement and ...

Principal Network Architect Segment Routing SRv6

Hiring Organisation
MECS Communications Ltd
Location
Newbury, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract, Work From Home
Contract Rate
£300 - £350 per day
based transport platform supporting fixed, mobile, enterprise, cloud and data centre services. Working alongside architecture, engineering, operations and technology partners, you'll own the strategic network architecture, establish technical standards and produce the architectural blueprints that will underpin a major transformation programme. Purpose Design the future-state architecture … experience designing and governing large-scale IP transport networks within a Tier 1 telecommunications environment. You'll have a proven track record of defining strategic network architectures, leading complex transformation programmes and producing the technical deliverables required to successfully migrate carrier networks from MPLS to SRv6. ...

Enterprise Architect

Hiring Organisation
Lorien
Location
London, South East, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
Salary negotiable
architecture Tools such as Bloomreach or similar marketing technology Experience designing real-time, event-driven, cloud-native architecture Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills Strategic, systems-level thinking Apply NOW for immediate consideration! Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business ...

Stakeholder Engagement Manager

Hiring Organisation
Circle Recruitment
Location
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£230 - £258 per day
Stakeholder Engagement Manager, you will be at the forefront of our community-driven approach to the Wales Metal Mines Programme. This role demands a strategic thinker with a proven track record in stakeholder and community engagement, infrastructure planning, and multi-agency collaboration You will lead the development and implementation … meaningful engagement strategies across a wide range of stakeholders, including communities, strategic partners, national and regional bodies, and technical specialists. You will act as a key interface between internal teams, external consultants, and delivery partners, ensuring that stakeholder needs are understood and embedded throughout the program lifecycle This role ...

FM Transformation Director

Hiring Organisation
Venn Group
Location
Surrey, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£514 per day
support one of the UK's most significant healthcare infrastructure projects. Reporting directly into the Senior Director within the Directorate, this is a strategic leadership role operating at executive level across the Trust and wider NHS system. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future … operating model while supporting the delivery of the Trust's contribution to the New Hospital Programme (NHP). The Role You will lead the strategic transformation of Property & Facilities Management services, ensuring the Trust is prepared to meet future operational requirements and Hospital 2.0 standards. Working closely with executive ...

Cloud Security Consultant (Architect)

Hiring Organisation
Cadence Resourcing Limited
Location
Liverpool, Merseyside, North West, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
Up to £0.00 per day + On Application
developing AI strategy. You will deliver robust security design, independent assurance, and clear governance across AWS and Microsoft Azure platforms. This role requires a strategic thinker who can embed security-by-design principles while seamlessly collaborating with enterprise architects, project managers, and third-party suppliers. Key Requirements: Multi-Cloud … Azure environments. AI Infrastructure: Ability to securely architect data platforms, experimentation environments, and production AI initiatives. Strong familiarity with leveraging existing Cisco strategic security capabilities before integrating cloud-native tooling. Governance & Risk: Expert at executing security design reviews, identifying vulnerabilities, and providing practical remediation paths. What You Will ...

Warehouse Manager

Hiring Organisation
High Profile Resourcing Ltd
Location
Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contractor
Contract Rate
£500 - £550 per day
helping the business move from "how we've always done it" to "how we'll operate in the future." You'll influence strategic decisions whilst remaining close enough to the operation to understand what really happens on the warehouse floor. This is a role for someone who enjoys balancing … operational credibility with strategic thinking. What You'll Be Responsible For Help define the future warehouse operating model Managing the existing teams Review existing warehouse processes from goods-in through to dispatch Identify operational risks before warehouse transformation takes place Improve inventory governance, stock integrity & warehouse controls Support ...

Warehouse Manager

Hiring Organisation
High Profile Resourcing Ltd
Location
Reading, Berkshire, South East, United Kingdom
Employment Type
Contract
Contract Rate
From £500 to £550 per day + expenses
helping the business move from "how we've always done it" to "how we'll operate in the future." You'll influence strategic decisions whilst remaining close enough to the operation to understand what really happens on the warehouse floor. This is a role for someone who enjoys balancing … operational credibility with strategic thinking. What You'll Be Responsible For Help define the future warehouse operating model. Managing the existing teams Review existing warehouse processes from goods-in through to dispatch. Identify operational risks before warehouse transformation takes place. Improve inventory governance, stock integrity and warehouse controls. Support ...