Business Consultant

Location(s): UK, Europe & Africa : UK : London

BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

Job Title: Business Consultant

Location: London – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Grade: GG11

Referral Bonus: 5000

What You’ll Be Doing

We are recruiting for additional Business Consultants to join a new phase of work at an existing Government client.

We are looking for candidates who can support client transformation and deliver planned change and benefit. A successful Business Change Consultant will prove to be effective within complex stakeholder landscapes by being a trusted advisor to Programme and Project Managers and other key stakeholders. It is an empowering role that helps to ‘make change happen’. It is also a role that is involved throughout the full lifecycle of projects and programmes from early visioning / baselining activities through to a focus on sustainability, transition to business as usual and the delivery of benefits.

The main aim of all of our business consulting engagements is to help clients transform and achieve their stated goals. This transition often involves change in all three core business consulting areas (people, business processes and enabling technology). Our Business consultants help clients to implement these changes at all stages within a programme or project: business justification; planning for business change; helping clients to implement change across the business and also ensuring that the expected level of change is sustainable.

• Lead analysis in areas where the consultant has experience.
• Lead client engagement on specific sections of a project or programme.
• Lead small workshops and interviews to capture information from key stakeholders.

• Plan and Present core information to stakeholder groups to assist in change activities.
• Coach other members of staff to help them develop core techniques.

• Plan and define the delivery of a business consulting project.
• Be familiar (and preferably experienced with one or more) business consulting approaches/ techniques and be able to choose those that are suitable for a particular engagement.
• Be able to build and a team of more junior staff and task these to deliver appropriate elements of a larger project.

• Lead large workshops with senior staff to elicit the information required for the project and progress activities.
• Run large and complicated client engagements with a number of different stakeholder groups.
• Engage with difficult stakeholder groups in order to identify issues and resolutions.
• Coach and deliver training courses for more junior staff, and members of the client team.
• Applies the principles of project management such as planning, risk management and resource management to small and medium sized business change projects

The team

We work hard and often go the extra mile, but we recognise people’s efforts and that everyone has a life outside of work. We encourage people to speak up if they want to rotate to a new project.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offer employee share plan, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits including including a green care scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture which values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions such as your nationality, any nationalities which you previously may have held and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are able to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Life at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

We are embracing Hybrid Working. This means you and your colleagues may be working in different locations, such as from home, another BAE Systems office or client site, some or all of the time, and work might be going on at different times of the day.

By embracing technology, we can interact, collaborate and create together, even when we’re working remotely from one another. Hybrid Working allows for increased flexibility in when and where we work, helping us to balance our work and personal life more effectively, and enhance well-being.

Diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of BAE Systems Digital Intelligence. We are proud to have an organisational culture where employees with varying perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds – the best and brightest minds – can work together to achieve excellence and realise individual and organisational potential.

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