Senior Business Consulting Manager Aerospace

Are you a Consulting Senior Manager with a background in Aerospace and wanting to develop into Heading up our Aerospace department?

As an Aerospace Business Consulting Senior Manager, you will demonstrate your strategic skills and be responsible for creating and managing exciting projects while keeping a firm focus on organisational goals and driving excellence and growth for Sopra Steria UK Consulting.

Your expertise will be pivotal in refining processes, encouraging team growth, and coordinating our Business Unit to ensure maximum efficiency. Additionally, you'll play a key role in growing our portfolio, developing strong customer relationships, and contributing significantly to pre-sales and sales efforts.

This is hybrid working; you would be required to attend client sites mainly based in the South and Southwest area of England two times a week, so this would need to be easily commutable for you, along with attending internal key meetings and training at one of our offices.

What you’ll be doing:

• Identifying, shaping, expanding, and creating new consulting opportunities within Aerospace.
• Nurturing strong relationships across the wider Sopra Steria Aerospace Group.
• Accountable for the financial performance of projects under your responsibility.
• Budget responsibility for your Consulting practice and its growth strategy.
• Qualify business needs and monitor resources for the tasks.
• Deputise the consulting Director in leading the business as required.

What you’ll bring:

• Expertise in Aerospace Business Consulting.
• Experience of digital and/or data transformation, manufacturing, process optimisation, supply chain optimisation.
• Experience of developing service propositions and taking these to market.
• Experience in building relationships and delivering presentations of business and technical solutions to senior client executives.
• Proficiency in project management techniques.
• Must be SC cleared.

It would be great if you had:

• A professional consulting accreditation.

If you have experience in delivering agile transformation in large/complex environments and are already security cleared to SC or DV, or willing to be, then apply to join our fast-paced growing consulting team.

If you are interested in this role but unsure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply; we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type:

Permanent.

Location:

UK Anywhere-Commutable to South and South West of England.

Security Clearance Level:

SC Clearance.

Internal Recruiter:

Soraya.

Salary:

£90,000 to £120,000.

Benefits:

20% Bonus, £6,600 car allowance, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy additional days, private medical (single), 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 improve 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.

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

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.

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.