Sopra Steria
Senior Business Consultant - Supply Chain & Industrial Transformation Consulting Manager
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Could you help organisations solve complex manufacturing and supply chain challenges while leading transformational improvement programmes that deliver measurable business outcomes?
We are looking for a Senior Business Consultant to join our Aerospace, Defence and Security team. In this client-facing leadership role, you will work with some of the UK's most complex industrial environments, helping organisations improve operational performance, manufacturing effectiveness, supply chain resilience, and sustainable business outcomes.
This is a UK-wide role with a strong on-site delivery focus. You will be expected to work at client locations a minimum of three days per week, primarily across Broughton, Filton, and Prestwick, with occasional travel to Belfast and other UK or international locations as required.
We can offer great career progression opportunities, the ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs, and training and development opportunities.
What you'll be doing:
- Leading operational excellence, manufacturing, and supply chain transformation engagements across complex industrial environments.
- Delivering diagnostics, assessments, and continuous improvement initiatives using Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to improve quality, delivery, cost, productivity, and operational performance.
- Managing senior stakeholders, customer relationships, and multidisciplinary delivery teams, including line management responsibilities and leadership of large-scale client programmes.
- Supporting supplier development, quality assurance, recovery planning, and end-to-end supply chain improvement activities.
- Identifying opportunities for growth, securing additional business through operational excellence, and contributing to business development, proposals, and client pursuits.
- Collaborating with digital, data, engineering, and transformation specialists to develop practical, technology-enabled solutions that deliver sustainable results.
What you'll bring:
- Significant experience in operational excellence, manufacturing, supply chain transformation, procurement, quality assurance, or industrial transformation.
- Strong practical knowledge of Lean Six Sigma and continuous improvement methodologies, with Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification as a minimum requirement.
- Experience working within aerospace, defence, manufacturing, or other complex industrial environments.
- Proven ability to engage with stakeholders from shop floor teams through to executive leadership and drive successful business change.
- Experience of supplier assessment, performance improvement, recovery planning, risk management, and cross-functional problem solving.
- Eligibility to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance and the ability to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) clearance.
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It would be great if you had:
- Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification.
- Professional qualifications in supply chain, procurement, manufacturing, or engineering disciplines.
- Experience supporting sustainability, responsible sourcing, or environmental improvement initiatives.
- Knowledge of enterprise resource planning, manufacturing resource planning, supplier management, or industrial technology platforms.
- Experience developing consulting propositions, reusable methodologies, or market-facing solutions.
- Experience delivering programmes involving UK and European stakeholders.
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: UK Wide, with regular travel to client sites across Broughton, Filton, Prestwick, and other locations as required.
Security Clearance Level: BPSS required to start, eligible for SC clearance with the ability to obtain DV clearance.
Internal Recruiter: Soraya.
Salary: Up to £80,000.
Benefits: 10% bonus, £5,400 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 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.
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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.
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