Senior Consultant

Job Title: Senior Consultant

Location: Guildford or Preston – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £55,000 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

As a Senior Consultant you will be leading customer-facing teams, providing a range of analytics tools, techniques and strategies to make a positive impact to our customer’s problem space. With your skills deployed in these areas, we are looking for people who will:

• Lead the delivery of projects to customers in either Government and/or the private sector to cost, schedule and high quality
• Engage and build relationships with our senior stakeholders and customers across BAE Systems and MOD
• Apply consultancy skills and toolsets to understand their strategic and operational objectives, identify their data and analysis requirements, and develop sustainable solutions to support their decision-making
• Support more junior members of the CORDA team through coaching and mentoring
• Have a strong track record of applying analysis techniques to a range of complex problems with a high attention for detail
• Be an excellent communicator; with an ability to effectively communicate technical solutions to a non-technical audience

Your skills and experiences:

Experience in one or more of our core capabilities, which cover:

• Operational Analysis, particularly capability analysis and evaluation within the military domain
• Simulation and Modelling, including requirement capture, model design, implementation and validation & verification
• Data Insights – all aspects of data analytics, including data science and data visualisation using toolsets such as Tableau, Alteryx, Python and R
• Strategic insights – using analysis to underpin future strategies, road maps and business cases
• Defence sector, Air Capability, CEMA, C2, or Underwater Battlespace experience is highly advantageous, as is a relevant degree (or experience to offset)

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The BAE Systems CORDA team:

At BAE Systems CORDA, we combine analytical capabilities with consultancy skills to support our customers across the defence, security and transport sectors, and our colleagues in other parts of BAE Systems. Our high-impact insights make the difference for our customers, whether it’s enabling battle-winning capabilities, developing novel technological concepts, or driving business performance.

CORDA is part of Digital Intelligence, which is home to 4,800 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 16 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.

The Flexible Working Statement:

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation.

All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 11th March 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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