Are you an experienced Business Development Consultant with a background in defence?
Join Our Team!
Sopra Steria is a leader in consulting, digital services, and software development, providing end-to-end solutions to enhance efficiency and effectiveness for large organisations.
We are looking for a leader with expertise in Defence and Secure clients to drive growth, win business, and develop our consulting business in areas such as applications, cloud, and infrastructure transformation.
This role also involves billable work, reflecting our commitment to close client collaboration.
This role is hybrid working, with some travel to our UK offices and client sites, when required.
What you will be doing: Identify, develop, and capture consulting opportunities, helping clients re-imagine the future and stay ahead of the curve.
Deliver transformational consulting projects for Aerospace, Defence, Secure, and Public Safety clients.
Highlight practical opportunities for technology exploitation, bridging business outcomes with people, process, data, and technology.
Define method statements, benefits, approaches, implementation plans, and communication materials to support winning and delivering work.
Build a robust pipeline of consulting opportunities and maintain strong relationships with internal and external partners.
What you'll bring: Proven Business Development experience.
Clearance: Current MoD DV (eDV desirable).
Experience in Technology consulting and IT transformation with extensive client-facing consulting experience.
Consulting background within Defence Sector.
If you are 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!
Location: Anywhere, regular client site travel around M4 corridor.
Security Clearance Level: Must hold active DV.
Internal Recruiter: Soraya.
Salary: £90,000 - £120,000.
Benefits: 20% Bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity.
We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.
So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.
Our specialist team at Sopra Steria Next, the consulting arm of Sopra Steria, leverages extensive experience across various sectors, including Financial Services, Security, Government, and Commerce.
With over 45,000 employees in 25 countries, we are a European leader in technology and transformation.
We believe that success comes when you put people first.
By focusing on the needs of our clients' customers, we help organisations achieve their goals, empower employees, and build trust as responsible corporate citizens.
Driven by innovation, we harness next-generation technology and data-driven insights to address critical challenges.
Our expertise enables large, complex organisations to innovate and transform effectively.
In every sector we serve, we re-imagine the organisations that shape everyday life in the UK, helping them stay ahead of the competition and safeguard their systems from evolving risks.
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.