Lead Consultant - Defence

Decision Analysis Services Ltd is one of the UK’s leading consultancies for critical national infrastructure. We support a range of Energy, Defence, Government, Health, and Transport contracts in the UK.

DAS is hiring a Lead Consultant in our expanding Systems Consulting practices supporting a range of clients across the Energy, Defence and Government industry sectors.

About you

As a Lead Consultant at DAS, you will be experienced in managing client relationships and developing business opportunities in the Defence domain as well as working directly with clients as a consultant. You have experience of financial approvals in previous roles and can confidently:

• Work with and influence senior stakeholders.
• Deliver consultancy projects, mange client relationships and develop business opportunities.
• Build internal and external relationships.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the government approvals processes.
• Demonstrate experience engaging with HM Treasury and Scrutiny.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of government guidelines including HMT Green and Aqua Books.
• Contribute to the development of a 5-case business case.
• Engage effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
• Identify opportunities and problems while developing enduring solutions.
• Collaborate effectively with a wider team.

Don’t meet all the job requirements, but like the sound of DAS and the projects we work on? Get in touch anyway – we are always keen to hear from talented, solutions-led individuals at all stages of their career and might have the perfect role for you.

About Us

Decision Analysis Services is an independent management consultancy. We provide consultancy services globally to clients within the Energy, Defence, Government, Health, and Transport sectors.

We specialise in bridging the gap between strategic planning and operational execution, developing enduring solutions to the uniquely complex issues faced by our clients.

We are experts in program management, systems thinking, investment modelling, machine learning, and data analysis. These unique skills, coupled with our extensive experience of engineering, regulatory practices and operations delivery enable us to delve deeper, provide invaluable insight and foresight, and develop sustainable, long-term solutions to client issues.

Requirements

You are a Lead Consultant with experience managing client relationships and developing business opportunities, ideally in the Defence domain as well as working directly with clients as a consultant. You have experience of financial approvals in previous roles and confidently collaborate with a team of colleagues. And importantly, you have the core traits of a DAS consultant:

• Excellent communicators, proficient within their domains and able to deliver outstanding work to DAS clients.
• Critical Friends, helping clients and their teams through bottlenecks and uncomfortable truths by constructively challenging the status quo.
• Flexible and adaptable, responsive to evolving project demands and priorities and supporting their team for the whole journey.
• Astute and attentive to clients’ needs, showing business development skills and identifying opportunities to improve our clients' effectiveness and efficiency.
• Influential experts, competently working with senior stakeholders on a regular basis and valuing quality analysis and data-led recommendations.
• Lifelong learners, keen to grow their expertise and proactively seeking development opportunities, particularly in pursuit of widening their professional skills base.

Benefits

We actively support a healthy work-life balance and champion workplace flexibility, enabling you to prioritise the things that matter to you.

• £Competitive salary, dependent on skills and experience
• Private pension, private healthcare for you and your immediate family, and private dentalcare
• Death-in-service and income protection schemes
• 25 days holiday plus UK bank holidays, and additional days to work on environmental and community activities.
• Discretionary office closure over Christmas
• Personal carbon offset through company scheme
• Access to professional and personal development platform, Udemy

DAS is an Equal Opportunities employer. We support the principle of Equality and Diversity in employment wholeheartedly and oppose all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination. We commit to providing equality, fairness, and respect for all in our employment, and all those seeking employment at DAS.