322 IT Strategy jobs in the United Kingdom

Strategy Consultant

Strategy Consultant | Shape Organisational Change & Drive Social Impact | Flexible Hybrid Working and Outstanding Benefits

Join Social Value Portal as a Strategy Consultant, stepping into a team where growth and internal progression have created this exciting backfill opportunity. You’ll enjoy a supportive and collaborative culture, flexible hybrid working in our London office (2–3 days per week), and exceptional benefits including 6 paid volunteering days, private medical cover, and your birthday off every year.

At Social Value Portal, we’re on a mission to unlock £100bn in social value to help people, places, and the planet thrive – and we’ve already delivered £0bn. As part of our Strategic Advisory team, you’ll work with leading organisations such as Vodafone, Roche, and the Careers & Enterprise Company to help them embed social value at the heart of their operations. This is your chance to combine strategic consulting and organisational transformation with a genuine impact on society.

What you’ll do:

• Lead and deliver consultancy projects, embedding social value into organisational strategy.
• Independently manage multiple client relationships, taking full ownership of projects from ideation to delivery.
• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder sessions to uncover challenges and co-create solutions.
• Support clients on bid-related programmes through ideation and guidance (not bid writing).
• Develop clear, engaging presentations and project deliverables that inspire action.
• Collaborate with a small, high-energy team where ideas and innovation are encouraged.

What we’re looking for:

• Proven experience in strategy, organisational change, or transformation consultancy.
• Confidence in managing external client relationships independently.
• Adaptability to work across multiple projects, spinning “a few plates” at once.
• Strong communication skills with experience facilitating workshops and delivering presentations.
• Curiosity, creativity, and a proactive mindset – comfortable with ambiguity and open to sharing ideas.

Why join us:

• Salary: up to £50,000, dep dent on experience.
• Generous bonus scheme
• Hybrid working: 2–3 days per week in our London office.
• 25 days’ annual leave + UK bank holidays + your birthday off.
• 6 paid volunteering days each year to make an impact outside of work.
• Private medical insurance from day one, plus access to 24/7 Employee Assistance.
• Enhanced parental leave and a flexible, growth-focused culture.
• Learning & Development embedded into team culture, including monthly L&D sessions led by team members or guest speakers.

This role is perfect if you thrive in a small, collaborative consultancy team, enjoy working autonomously, and want to see your ideas drive real social impact.

Click to Apply and help leading organisations redefine what positive change looks like.

Strategy Associate

London (Hybrid)

£47,500 per year

12-Month Assignment

HSBC are currently searching for a Strategy Associate to join their team in London on a 12-month maternity leave cover. The team are seeking a skilled strategy associate to support their strategy function.

This position is ideal for someone with strong analytical skillsets and a talent for creating polished, visually compelling presentations that effectively communicate complex ideas to senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

• Develop high-quality PowerPoint presentations for executive and board-level meetings, turning complex concepts into clear, impactful visuals.
• Collaborate with senior team members to structure and shape strategic narratives.
• Conduct data analysis to support strategic recommendations.
• Quickly synthesize information from multiple sources into concise, professional outputs.
• Support project management on key strategic initiatives.

Experience Required:

• Previous experience in strategy, transaction services, or corporate finance (Big Four or equivalent background preferred).
• Advanced PowerPoint skills with an eye for design and detail.
• Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to simplify complex information.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Highly organized, with the ability to work under tight deadlines.

If you are interested, please do not hesitate to either apply directly or reach out at Please note that we will only be able to reach out to successful applicants in the first instance.

Strategy Manager – Growth-Focused Entrepreneur

Location: London, King’s Cross (Hybrid, up to 2 days remote)

Salary: £60k-£90k

About the Role:

This is a unique opportunity to work directly with a highly successful UK entrepreneur and investor, supporting their mission to grow mid-sized businesses. The role offers unparalleled exposure to high-growth ventures, investment strategy, and founder networks.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and support strategic growth projects, M&A mapping, and market expansion.
• Prepare briefs and insights for key meetings with investors, founders, and entrepreneurs.
• Drive execution on partnerships, market entry, and business development initiatives.

Ideal Profile:

• 18-24 months experience at a top-tier strategy consultancy (Bain, McKinsey, BCG ) with a strong focus on consumer, retail, marketplace and business services.
• Strong analytical skills, commercial intuition, and excellent communication (especially PowerPoint storytelling).
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a desire to transition into operational leadership. Evidence of prior entrepreneurial endeavours are key.
• Experience in market analysis, investment strategy, and financial modelling (desirable).

What’s on Offer:

• Close mentorship from a proven entrepreneur and investor.
• Hands-on exposure to live investments and scale-up decisions.
• Pathway to leadership roles within the entrepreneur’s investment portfolio.

Strategy Director - Digital Creative Healthcare Communications Agency

Overview

Dedicated to delivering insight-driven strategic and tactical plans that meet client and audience needs in the digital healthcare communications space. With a mission is to foster organic growth and new business opportunities while providing exceptional strategic direction to both colleagues and clients.

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to lead and develop the company's strategy team, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery of insight-driven strategic and tactical plans.

Responsibilities

• To lead and oversee the development of robust, insight-driven (digital and creative) strategic solutions that address brand and customer challenges.
• To drive organic growth and new business opportunities in the strategic offering of the agency.
• To provide strategic direction to clients and colleagues .

Key tasks

• Implement the development of communications strategy and integrated digital campaign planning.
• Mapping of the customer experience, identifying key challenges and opportunities.
• Identify strategic growth opportunities and develop new methodologies and offerings for clients.

The company offers a very competitive salary and benefits package, along with hybrid working from a central london office. You must be able to go into their central London office at least one day per week.

At least 10 years experience in a similar role is a healthcare communications role is key.

Strategy Manager – Growth-Focused Entrepreneur

Location: London, King’s Cross (Hybrid, up to 2 days remote)

Salary: £60k-£90k

About the Role:

This is a unique opportunity to work directly with a highly successful UK entrepreneur and investor, supporting their mission to grow mid-sized businesses. The role offers unparalleled exposure to high-growth ventures, investment strategy, and founder networks.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead and support strategic growth projects, M&A mapping, and market expansion.
• Prepare briefs and insights for key meetings with investors, founders, and entrepreneurs.
• Drive execution on partnerships, market entry, and business development initiatives.

Ideal Profile:

• 18-24 months experience at a top-tier strategy consultancy (Bain, McKinsey, BCG ) with a strong focus on consumer, retail, marketplace and business services.
• Strong analytical skills, commercial intuition, and excellent communication (especially PowerPoint storytelling).
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a desire to transition into operational leadership. Evidence of prior entrepreneurial endeavours are key.
• Experience in market analysis, investment strategy, and financial modelling (desirable).

What’s on Offer:

• Close mentorship from a proven entrepreneur and investor.
• Hands-on exposure to live investments and scale-up decisions.
• Pathway to leadership roles within the entrepreneur’s investment portfolio.

Strategy Director - Digital Creative Healthcare Communications Agency

Overview

Dedicated to delivering insight-driven strategic and tactical plans that meet client and audience needs in the digital healthcare communications space. With a mission is to foster organic growth and new business opportunities while providing exceptional strategic direction to both colleagues and clients.

About the Role

The purpose of this role is to lead and develop the company's strategy team, ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery of insight-driven strategic and tactical plans.

Responsibilities

• To lead and oversee the development of robust, insight-driven (digital and creative) strategic solutions that address brand and customer challenges.
• To drive organic growth and new business opportunities in the strategic offering of the agency.
• To provide strategic direction to clients and colleagues .

Key tasks

• Implement the development of communications strategy and integrated digital campaign planning.
• Mapping of the customer experience, identifying key challenges and opportunities.
• Identify strategic growth opportunities and develop new methodologies and offerings for clients.

The company offers a very competitive salary and benefits package, along with hybrid working from a central london office. You must be able to go into their central London office at least one day per week.

At least 10 years experience in a similar role is a healthcare communications role is key.

About Us

YouLend is the preferred global embedded financing platform for many of the world’s leading e-commerce sites, tech companies and payment services providers such as Amazon, eBay, Shopify, Mollie, Dojo, Paysafe, Just Eat Takeaway and Takepayments. Our software platform and APIs enable our partners to offer flexible financing products, in their desired branding, to their merchant base. With YouLend's AI-driven credit risk assessment solutions, more merchants and SMEs than ever can receive fast, flexible and affordable funding. We operate in 9+ geographies across the UK, EU and the US.

We believe that the future of financial services will be delivered by customer-oriented tech companies that embed financing in their customer journeys, and we are building the solutions that will power that future.

The Role
We are looking for a sharp, execution-focused Strategy & Operations Associate to own and improve the way our end-to-end funnel delivers financing to SMEs. This is a unique opportunity to join a fast-paced fintech scale-up and make a measurable impact on growth, efficiency, and merchant experience. You will work across departments to identify bottlenecks, design experiments, drive strategic initiatives, and champion operational innovation.

What You’ll Do

• Own funnel performance end-to-end: From application to funding, analyse key drop-offs, bottlenecks, and points of friction — and deliver targeted strategies to improve conversion and throughput.
• Drive conversion optimisation by piloting initiatives, running A/B experiments, iterating on funnel logic, and influencing how we balance risk, speed, and customer experience.
• Define and track core operational KPIs and translate insights into clear action plans that deliver measurable improvements.
• Act as a change leader , implementing and embedding improvements quickly and effectively across teams with minimal disruption and strong adoption.
• Collaborate with Product, Credit, Risk, and Partner Success teams to implement strategic initiatives and test new approaches to scale operations more efficiently.
• Identify automation and tooling opportunities to reduce manual effort, improve compliance, and support rapid growth — all while maintaining quality standards.
• Act with urgency and ownership , prioritising high-impact opportunities and ensuring progress is made fast and visibly.

Requirements

Who You Are

• 2+ years of experience in consulting, fintech, high growth ops teams, or highly analytical business roles.
• Exceptional communication skills — both written and verbal — with the ability to influence stakeholders and drive change across teams.
• A natural change agent who can navigate ambiguity, lead cross-functional implementations, and manage operational transformation with minimal oversight.
• Highly analytical and data-driven; comfortable using SQL, Excel, or equivalent to turn data into strategy.
• You’re hands-on, proactive, and act with urgency — you push projects forward, remove blockers, and get things done.
• Passionate about process design, optimisation, and using technology to solve operational challenges.
• Experience in fintech, credit, underwriting, or operations strategy is a plus.

Benefits

Why join YouLend?

• Award-Winning Workplace:  YouLend has been recognised as one of the “Best Places to Work 2024 and 2025” by the Sunday Times for being a supportive, diverse, and rewarding workplace.
• Award-Winning Fintech : YouLend has been recognised as a “Top 250 Fintech Worldwide” company by CNBC.

We offer comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• Stock Options
• Private Medical insurance via Vitality and Dental with BUPA
• EAP with Health Assured
• Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Leave
• Modern and sophisticated office space in Central London
• Free Gym in office building in Holborn
• Subsidised Lunch via Feedr
• Deliveroo Allowance if working late in office
• Monthly in office Masseuse
• Team and Company Socials
• Football Power League / Paddle Club

At YouLend, we champion diversity and embrace equal opportunity employment practices. Our hiring, transfer, and promotion decisions are exclusively based on qualifications, merit, and business requirements, free from any discrimination based on race, gender, age, disability, religion, nationality, or any other protected basis under applicable law.

Salary Range: £50,000 - £70,000 + up to 25% annual bonus.

Join a Global Strategy Powerhouse — Senior Strategy Analyst | Rentokil Initial | Crawley (Hybrid) | Competitive Salary + Benefits

Shape the future of a $7bn business. Drive growth. Deliver impact.

Rentokil Initial, a FTSE 100 leader in Pest Control and Hygiene & Wellbeing, is looking for a Senior Strategy Analyst to play a pivotal role in our global growth journey. With a focus on data-led strategy and cross-regional collaboration, you’ll help steer the business through strategic transformation across North America, Asia, Europe, and the Pacific.

In this high-visibility role, you'll work closely with the Group Head of Strategy and other senior leaders to:

• Support regional strategy planning across Pest Control and Hygiene & Wellbeing – with a focus on the North American market.
• Use your accounting or financial experience to drive commercial decisions
• Lead data analysis and insight generation to uncover trends, opportunities, and risks.
• Manage complex projects , building roadmaps and tracking milestones for strategic delivery.
• Act as the bridge between internal stakeholders and external partners such as consultancies and research agencies.
• Contribute to the design and rollout of strategic capability training , helping shape how we think about growth globally.

Requirements

• A qualified Accountant - ACA, ACCA or CIMA
• Have experience in FP&A or in an analytical role
• A self-starter with a strong grasp of strategy frameworks and models.
• Experienced in handling and presenting large datasets – ideally with proficiency in SAS, SQL, or similar .
• A sharp thinker who can spot insights that influence business decisions.
• Confident communicating across functions, from frontline teams to senior leadership.
• Highly organized, with strong project management skills and a passion for execution.
• Educated to degree level in Business, Economics, Data Science , Finance or a related discipline.

• A global platform to build your strategic career in a FTSE 100 company
• High-impact projects that shape multi-billion-dollar business units
• Exposure to international markets and senior leadership
• Ongoing learning and development, including strategy training frameworks
• Hybrid working model with potential for international travel

If you’re analytical, ambitious, and excited about shaping the future of a global leader, we want to hear from you.

Apply now and become a key player in Rentokil Initial’s strategic evolution.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus scheme
• Hybrid working
• Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
• 23 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Death in service benefit
• Healthcare
• Free parking

At Rentokil Initial, our customers and colleagues represent diverse backgrounds and experiences. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer, actively encouraging applications from individuals from all walks of life. Our belief is that everyone irrespective of age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs, has the potential to thrive and contribute.

We embrace the differences that make each of our colleagues unique, fostering an inclusive environment where everyone can be their authentic selves and feel a sense of belonging. To ensure that your journey with us is accessible if you have any individual requirements we invite you to communicate any specific needs or preferences you may have during any stage of the recruitment process. Our team is available to support you; feel free to reach out to ( ) if you need anything

Be Yourself in Your Application! At Rentokil Initial, we value innovation, but we want to see the real you! While AI can help with structure and grammar, make sure your application shows your true passion and understanding of the role. A personal touch will help you stand out.

HOURS:  37.5 hours per week, Monday–Friday, 8.30am–5.00pm

SALARY:  Salary dependent upon experience, plus annual bonus opportunity

LOCATION:  Hybrid. Office based potentially in Leeds, Teesside, or Nottingham with an opportunity for home working

REPORTS TO: Associate Director / Senior Consultant

BACKGROUND

Sewell Group is a multi-disciplined group of companies operating across the North of England. As a family business, it has a long and illustrious history dating back to 1876. Alongside its retail division, which operates 13 fuel and convenience stores across East Yorkshire, Sewell Estates is a collective of built environment businesses made up of Sewell Investments, Sewell Construction, Sewell Facilities Management, Illingworth and Gregory, Community Ventures, and Shared Agenda.

At the heart of the business’ vision and strategy is delivering value for the communities it serves, promoting opportunities by employing local people and investing in developing talent, as well as giving back to communities and supporting the regional economy through commissioning the local supply chain.

Sewell pride themselves on their commitment to support, train, develop and reward employees. In return, they ask that their employees work hard, live the company behaviours, and have some fun along the way. Culture is a massive part of the day-to-day life at Sewell and its people follow core principles of being Positive; Professional; Customer Focused; Team Players; and Always Doing the Right Thing.

In 2021 the Group was recognised as one of only 18 businesses across the country in the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise for Promoting Opportunity – the most prestigious accolade for UK businesses. We have also featured in the Top 100 Best Companies to work for list six times, including being placed in the Top 50 large companies to work for in 2022.

Community Ventures is seeking talented individuals to join the team.  We provide healthcare strategy, strategic estates advice, business case services and programme/project management solutions to a wide range of customers across the UK. The Team is also contracted to provide management services to ten Lift Co business across the north of England managing a £250m health and social care portfolio. 

ROLE OVERVIEW

This is an exciting development opportunity for someone looking to enhance their existing knowledge and experience of estates planning and advice, working as a key member of a growing team.

Community Ventures’ vision is to be the consultant partner of choice to our customers and our mission is to achieve excellence in our advice and our solutions, delivering long-term added value to public services. 

Our current workload spans local, regional and national advisory roles for all aspects of the health sector – primary, community, acute and mental health - as well as support to local authorities and other public sector organisations. 

We are looking for someone who will embrace the complexity and breadth of this role, and who relishes the challenge of working creatively to understand and help solve our clients’ estate problems.

You will possess excellent communication and facilitation skills to harness and build positive relationships, whilst being able to put forwards alternative points of view and respectfully challenge.

You will primarily work alongside and in support of our senior consultants, delivering estates advisory services to customers right across our portfolio, but will also lead on specific elements of work/your own projects as your experience develops, as well as helping to nurture your graduate and junior colleagues.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES

STRATEGIC ESTATES ADVICE

• To work as part of a team to provide advice to our customers and partners as required (e.g., options appraisals, feasibility studies, estates strategies, PIDs, Business Case authoring, workshop facilitation, space utilisation, other research), either solely, as part of the wider team or with external advisors as needed.
• Liaise with external clients and stakeholders to create new strategic estates opportunities for Community Ventures in line with the business plan, working with colleagues, partners and shareholders.
• Appoint contractors and advisors to support delivery.
• Effectively manage multidisciplinary teams.
• To professionally represent Community Ventures at external meetings and events.

CLIENT/CUSTOMER LIAISON

• A significant proportion of this role is client facing - acting as the consultant/ professional on our strategic advice commissions- presenting our offer to the client and ensuring the timelines and quality of our delivery.
• Promoting and presenting a professional personal and company brand in all dealings.
• Developing and nurturing successful and rewarding relationships with colleagues and the supply chain.
• Listening and understanding the client’s needs and developing new client relationships.
• Ensuring a working environment exists where complete client satisfaction is at the forefront of every team member’s mind.

GENERAL

• Support the production of board reports and performance reports against the business plan KPI’s.
• Spotting opportunities for continuous improvement of our tools, processes, and systems.
• Understanding and mitigating risk to the business.
• Support Community Ventures in the pursuit of new opportunities and business development as required.
• Provide information to support the Director and Associate Directors with workload planning and forecasting.
• Leading on your own strategic internal projects suited to your skills and expertise – in the past this has included quality management, implementation of new software etc. 

Requirements

As well as exhibiting a polite and approachable attitude, displaying plenty of energy, initiative, professionalism, commitment and a strong team ethos, the suitable person will have the following:

ESSENTIAL

• Hold a formal degree qualification (or 3+ years relevant experience)
• Experience in contributing to/delivering the preparation of estate strategies, and Business Cases in accordance with the HM Treasury Green Book guidance
• Experience of working within public sector, health, social care, and/or education sectors
• Experience of delivering against competing priorities and deadlines while also directing the work of teams/individuals
• You will be resilient and have the credibility to engage with a wide range of local and regional stakeholders
• The ability to work both as a team member in a busy working environment, as and unsupervised at times
• Excellent listening and communication skills
• The ability to learn and work with new technology and software
• Good decision-making skills
• A good level of knowledge of Microsoft Office packages, in particular Outlook, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Have effective and efficient time management skills
• Awareness of the importance of confidentiality
• Have a thorough approach/high levels of attention to detail and accuracy
• Be able to implement new and improved ways of working
• A full, valid UK driving licence and own transport

DESIRABLE

• Experience working in or around healthcare service planning and/or service change programmes
• Healthcare planning and strategy experience
• Formal Better Business Cases qualification
• Membership of an appropriate professional body
• Understanding of current national healthcare policy, strategic direction and objectives and national programmes
• Working knowledge of LIFT, PFI, Procure 22 or other related frameworks

Community Ventures is an equal opportunities employer, recruiting within the guidelines of the Equality Act 2010. We are committed to the promotion of diversity and equal opportunity, as an employer and in the delivery of our products and services.

As a committed safe employer an appropriate enhanced DBS (criminal record) check will be required for the successful candidate of this role.

Benefits

• Salary dependent on experience
• Annual bonus opportunity
• 25 days holiday (plus Bank Holidays), rising with length of service to 30 days
• Being a Co-Owner of Sewell Estates, learn more here: Employee Ownership - Sewell Group (sewell-group.co.uk)
• Auto enrolment pension
• Staff discounts
• High street & retail discount schemes
• Bike 2 work scheme
• Technology scheme
• Paid parental leave and sickness absence
• Free use of the Coyle Health Gym
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