Are you looking to grow your consulting career while working on complex and meaningful transformation programmes that really matter?

We are expanding our Consulting practice within Aerospace, Defence and Security (ADS) and are looking for a Senior Business Consultant – Business Change to join our growing team. You will work across Aerospace, Defence and Secure environments, including Policing, supporting programmes that deliver real operational and digital change.

You will be part of a collaborative and supportive consulting community, working closely with clients and colleagues to embed change, strengthen delivery control and realise lasting benefits. This is a great opportunity to build your experience across business change and PMO activity, while contributing to work that supports critical UK services.

This role is hybrid, with a minimum of three days per week on client site near Corsham, Wiltshire (Chippenham area).

Due to the nature of the work, SC clearance is required as a minimum and you must be eligible and willing to obtain DV clearance. DV is desirable.

What you’ll be doing

• Supporting the delivery of business change activity across transformation, digital and operational improvement programmes.
• Assessing change impacts, stakeholder needs, business readiness and adoption risks within complex client environments.
• Producing high-quality change deliverables, including stakeholder maps, impact assessments, communications and engagement plans, and training support materials.
• Supporting PMO activities such as planning support, RAID management, reporting, governance coordination and dependency tracking.
• Producing clear and accurate status reports, dashboards, meeting packs and governance materials for programme and project leadership.
• Contributing to workshops, analysis, continuous improvement and business development activity, including proposal support.

What you’ll bring

• Experience supporting business change, transformation, organisational change or adoption activity within project or programme environments.
• Experience working in a PMO, project support or programme support role, with a good understanding of governance, reporting and delivery controls.
• Strong analytical, organisational and problem-solving skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities effectively.
• Confidence engaging with stakeholders across delivery teams and client organisations, including senior partners.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing clear, professional client-facing materials.
• Experience working in agile, waterfall or hybrid delivery environments.

It would be great if you had

• Experience delivering consulting services within Aerospace, Defence, Secure or wider public sector environments.
• Experience working within Defence Digital or CIS within Defence.
• A business change qualification such as APMG or Prosci.
• A project management qualification such as PRINCE2 Practitioner or APM PMQ.
• Experience supporting bids, proposals or identifying follow-on consulting opportunities.
• Experience coaching or supporting less experienced consultants.

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

Location: hybrid 3 days a week on site near Corhsam.

Security Clearance Level: Eligible to obtain MOD DV

Internal Recruiter: Soraya

Salary: £50,000 – £70,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the option to purchase more days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

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.

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida, the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.

If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.