Operating Models – Senior / Principal Consultant

The Role:

We are seeking professionals with various levels of experience to join the Operating Model Design team.

We want you to help us grow our business by:

• Delivering consulting and advisory services to achieve excellent results for our clients; primarily focused on target operating models.
• Building mutually beneficial relationships with our clients, understand their needs and translating them into consulting opportunities.
• Contributing with economic, commercial, and strategic insight.
• Contributing to the development of thought leadership, consulting propositions for our clients and promotional marketing materials.
• Working with bid teams to shape tender responses and produce high quality bid content.
• Continually developing own knowledge and understanding of consulting skills and client markets and supporting the development of others.

About you:

Successful candidates will be working with our clients from day one. We are looking for people who can demonstrate capabilities and experience across a number of the following areas:

Operating Model Design -

• Analysing how organisations work and the value they deliver to their customers.
• Experience in business architecture including specific mapping tools across people, process, and technology.
• Designing operating models that generate lasting value and improvements to our clients.
• Understand the impact of digital development on our clients and how it may affect future design.
• Planning and executing new operating model implementations as part of a wider transformation.

Other Experience -

• You are comfortable delivering in Waterfall and (scaled) agile methods in complex environments.
• You are a supportive team player and can communicate and collaborate effectively with a wide range of people.
• You can demonstrate an ability to transfer skills and knowledge to colleagues and clients.
• You build good and lasting relationships with clients at all levels in a business environment.
• You have strong technical ability to deliver presentations and facilitate workshops.
• Ideally, you will have experience in one or more of our key markets (Defence, Aerospace, Security, Energy, Utilities, Highways, Rail and the Public Sector).
• Ideally, you have experience of contributing to the sale of management consulting work – including bid development and presentations.

Why work for Atkins?

People join us because they share a desire to be at the forefront of the ADS&T Business Unit and deliver outstanding projects. We empower our people to be the professional individuals they want to be, working on projects they feel proud of, making a difference to the world they live in and the legacy they leave behind.

We value diversity and believe that everyone deserves to thrive, without exception. We have signed the MoD's "Women in Defence" and "Women in Aviation and Aerospace" charters. These pledges include providing opportunities for women to succeed at all levels. We're also committed to being a Military friendly employer and have been recognised with the Ministry of Defence's (MoD) Gold Employer Recognition Award.

We develop individuals through a portfolio of training and development courses designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents. We encourage participation in all forms of training and have an active programme of in-house as well as external training for all our staff.

Meeting your needs:

When you start with us, you'll enjoy "Total Reward", a package that can be tailored to your lifestyle, career and personal needs. From flexible holidays to life assurance, health & wellbeing benefits, and career planning for the senior stage of your career.

Making sure you're supported is important to us. So, if you identify as having a disability, tell us ahead of your interview. And let's talk about any adjustments you might need.