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Position: Lead Consultant (Bristol/Reading)

Purpose:
Lead, develop, and manage strategy development and implementation in line with Client’s Consultancy Growth Plans. Take ownership of Consultancy growth campaigns, frameworks, tender opportunities, and operational excellence across the Consultancy stream.

Key Responsibilities:
The Business provides industry-leading support and solutions to a wide range of customers, serving as a platform for future strategic growth. In line with the overarching Cavendish Nuclear Strategic Plan and NDA, Clean Energy, and Defence Business Units, the Consultancy Business must develop an executable and measurable strategic business plan.
The Lead Consultant plays a crucial role in enabling the business’s growth aspirations through delivering technically excellent solutions. As such, the key responsibilities include:

General Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Identify core market areas, capability and technology requirements, and strategic partnerships/suppliers.
- Support the development of the Specialist Services 5-year business plan.
- Collaborate with business units to execute the strategy and ensure clear communication of Client’s Nuclear Strategy.
- Identify and communicate new business opportunities in current and future markets to support the Specialist Services Strategic Plan.
- Support strategic growth campaigns and bids, including developing value propositions and marketing materials aligned with Client’s Nuclear Strategy.
- Establish and maintain key customer relationships.
- Continuously improve service delivery through industry best practises.
- Ensure that deployed personnel are suitably qualified and experienced.
- Supervise technical specialists within the same discipline.

Project Delivery Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Provide leadership and key input to design projects, ensuring the incorporation of nuclear safety requirements.
- Manage delivery of tasks within agreed Delegation of Authority (DOA), meeting cost and timeline targets to the satisfaction of key stakeholders.
- Oversee technical submissions through the review and approval process.
- Review and approve design changes, concessions, and technical queries.
- Manage project risks by closing out safety items on the Technical Issues and Risk Register Database.
- Create quality plans for work packages.
- Develop, verify, and approve technical Scopes of Work, assess tender returns, and verify/approve outputs to meet design sub-contract requirements.
- Provide feedback on lessons learned for future stages of the current and future projects.

Essential:
- Bachelor Honours Degree (or equivalent) in Science or Engineering related discipline.
- Chartered Status or working towards it.
- Trustworthy, mature, and discreet.
- Strong business and strategy development knowledge and experience.
- Experience in the civil nuclear industry.
- Market knowledge, including international and/or other energy sectors.
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external leaders, partners, suppliers, and customers.

Lead Consultant

Location: Warrington

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Reports to: This role typically reports to the Head a Consultancy

Job Purpose
To lead, develop and manage strategy development and implementation, in line with the
Consultancy Growth Plans. To take ownership for Consultancy growth campaigns, frameworks, tender opportunities and operational excellence across the Consultancy stream.

Key Responsibilities
Consultancy Business provides industry leading support and solutions to a wide range of customers and provides a platform to support the future strategy and growth of the business.
It is imperative that the Consultancy Business develops an executable and measurable strategic business Plan that aligns with the overarching consultancy Strategic Plan and aligns the NDA, Clean Energy and Defence Business Units.
Delivery of technically excellent solutions is a key enabler to the growth aspirations of the business. As such the key responsibilities for the Lead Consultant are listed below:
General Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Support the identification of core market areas, capability requirements, technology requirements, strategic partnerships / suppliers
2. Support the development of the Specialist Services 5 year business plan
3. Supports the execution of the strategy by working collaboratively with the business units and ensuring that the Cavendish Nuclear strategy is communicated and easily understood
4. Support the assessment, development and communication of new business opportunities in current and future markets to support the Specialist Services Strategic Plan
5. Provides support to strategic growth campaigns and bids including supporting value
propositions, marketing content and presentation materials to support the Cavendish
Nuclear Strategy
6. Develop and maintain key customer relationships
7. Continually improve delivery through review of industry best practice
8. Ensuring that deployed resources are suitably qualified and experienced personnel
9. Directing and supervising the work of technical specialists within the same discipline

Project Delivery Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Providing leadership and key input to design projects, ensuring that nuclear safety
requirements are incorporated
2. Managing delivery of tasks undertaken within their agreed Delegation of Authority (DOA)
against cost and programme to the satisfaction of the Key Stakeholders
3. Provide oversite of technical submissions through the review and approval process
4. Review and approval of design changes, concessions and technical queries
5. Managing project risks by closing out safety items on the Technical Issues and Risk Register Database
6. Raising quality plans for work packages
7. Producing, verifying, and approving technical Scopes of Work, assessing tender returns, then verifying/assessing and/or approving the outputs to ensure that the requirements of the design sub-contract are met
8. Feeding back lessons learnt for use on future stages of the current project and other
Projects
Bid Support Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Provide oversite for all bids and offers in the stream within Delegations of Authority
2. Ensure robust governance processes are adhered to
3. Provide Independent assessment of the technical basis of claims and disputes where
appropriate
4. Lead/conduct LFE reviews on successful and failed bids to ensure, it is incorporated into future opportunities

Process Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Input to development of processes and procedures that are pragmatic, proportionate,
scalable and widely applicable
2. Ensuring that processes and procedures are correctly applied to technical activities
Leadership Responsibilities and Accountabilities
1. Leading Self: Is a role model, demonstrating Cavendish principles, promoting health,
safety and wellbeing, respect and inclusion
2. Leading Others: Owns the performance and development of their team members,
including effective and ongoing communication and feedback
3. Leading Resources: Responsible for effective planning and organisation of resources to deliver on customer promises

Experience/Qualifications/Skills
Essential:
*Bachelor Honours Degree (or equivalent) in Science or Engineering related discipline
* Chartered Status or working towards
* Trustworthy and demonstrates maturity and discretion
* Good business and strategy development knowledge and experience
* Experience in the civil nuclear industry
* Market knowledge including international and/or other Energy sectors
* Ability to work collaboratively with key internal and external leaders, partners, suppliers and customers
Desirable:
* Experience with tendering opportunities and knowledge of relevant procurement
regulations used by the Client
Minimum level of Qualifications to be verified
(*N.B. only qualifications essential to the requirements of the role need to be checked)
Bachelor Honours Degree (or equivalent) in Science or Engineering related discipline

Position: Lead Consultant (Bristol/Reading)

Purpose:
Lead, develop, and manage strategy development and implementation in line with Client’s Consultancy Growth Plans. Take ownership of Consultancy growth campaigns, frameworks, tender opportunities, and operational excellence across the Consultancy stream.

Key Responsibilities:
The Business provides industry-leading support and solutions to a wide range of customers, serving as a platform for future strategic growth. In line with the overarching Cavendish Nuclear Strategic Plan and NDA, Clean Energy, and Defence Business Units, the Consultancy Business must develop an executable and measurable strategic business plan.
The Lead Consultant plays a crucial role in enabling the business’s growth aspirations through delivering technically excellent solutions. As such, the key responsibilities include:

General Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Identify core market areas, capability and technology requirements, and strategic partnerships/suppliers.
- Support the development of the Specialist Services 5-year business plan.
- Collaborate with business units to execute the strategy and ensure clear communication of Client’s Nuclear Strategy.
- Identify and communicate new business opportunities in current and future markets to support the Specialist Services Strategic Plan.
- Support strategic growth campaigns and bids, including developing value propositions and marketing materials aligned with Client’s Nuclear Strategy.
- Establish and maintain key customer relationships.
- Continuously improve service delivery through industry best practises.
- Ensure that deployed personnel are suitably qualified and experienced.
- Supervise technical specialists within the same discipline.

Project Delivery Responsibilities and Accountabilities:
- Provide leadership and key input to design projects, ensuring the incorporation of nuclear safety requirements.
- Manage delivery of tasks within agreed Delegation of Authority (DOA), meeting cost and timeline targets to the satisfaction of key stakeholders.
- Oversee technical submissions through the review and approval process.
- Review and approve design changes, concessions, and technical queries.
- Manage project risks by closing out safety items on the Technical Issues and Risk Register Database.
- Create quality plans for work packages.
- Develop, verify, and approve technical Scopes of Work, assess tender returns, and verify/approve outputs to meet design sub-contract requirements.
- Provide feedback on lessons learned for future stages of the current and future projects.

Essential:
- Bachelor Honours Degree (or equivalent) in Science or Engineering related discipline.
- Chartered Status or working towards it.
- Trustworthy, mature, and discreet.
- Strong business and strategy development knowledge and experience.
- Experience in the civil nuclear industry.
- Market knowledge, including international and/or other energy sectors.
- Ability to collaborate with internal and external leaders, partners, suppliers, and customers.

Job Title: Lead Consultant – Nuclear Strategy & Delivery

Location: Warrington, Bristol, or Newbury (Hybrid – 2–3 days per week on-site/client site)

Contract Type: 6-Month Contract (with potential extension)

Start Date: ASAP (Subject to Clearance)

Security Clearance Required: BPSS at minimum (SC required – can be progressed during contract)

Travel: Regular travel to client sites expected (ideally weekly)

Role Overview:

We are seeking a highly experienced Lead Consultant with a background in the nuclear industry to support the growth, strategy, and delivery of consultancy projects. This role involves working across multiple frameworks and programmes, taking ownership of circa 20 concurrent small-scale projects/tasks. You will drive the strategic execution, support tendering and bid processes, and oversee operational excellence in a regulated consultancy environment.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Growth:

• Support the development of a 5-year business plan aligned with wider strategic goals.
• Identify core market areas, technology needs, and key strategic partnerships.
• Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders to deliver business unit alignment.
• Develop marketing content and value propositions to support bids and campaigns.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with new and existing customers.

Project Delivery:

• Provide leadership and input on design projects, ensuring integration of nuclear safety principles.
• Manage task delivery within agreed authority limits, ensuring quality, cost, and time objectives.
• Review and approve technical deliverables, including design changes, concessions, and queries.
• Manage technical risks and feed lessons learned into future work.

Bid & Tender Support:

• Oversee bids and offers in line with internal delegation policies.
• Support governance processes, ensuring all technical inputs are robust and compliant.
• Conduct bid reviews (win/loss) and ensure learning is captured for continuous improvement.

Process & Governance:

• Contribute to the development of proportionate, scalable procedures and standards.
• Ensure technical teams apply processes correctly and effectively.

Leadership:

• Act as a role model, upholding professional standards and promoting inclusion and wellbeing.
• Lead, develop, and support team members through coaching, communication, and performance management.
• Organise resources to ensure customer expectations are met efficiently.

Required Experience & Skills:

Essential:

• Degree (or equivalent) in Engineering or Science-related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer status (or working towards).
• Strong experience in the civil nuclear industry , ideally in nuclear safety roles.
• Demonstrable success in strategic planning and consultancy growth.
• Established network in the nuclear sector.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and collaboration skills.

Desirable:

• Experience supporting tendering and bid submissions.
• Familiarity with public-sector procurement regulations and frameworks.
• Market knowledge beyond civil nuclear, including clean energy or defence.

Additional Information:

• Clearance: Candidates must be eligible for SC clearance.
• Flexibility: Hybrid working is supported, with 2–3 days per week expected on-site or at client locations.
• Duration: Initial 6-month term, with strong likelihood of extension to 9+ months based on project pipeline and performance.

Lead Analytics Consultant – Data & AI Strategy

Location: UK (Remote with travel to client sites)

Salary: £100,000 + Bonus

About the Company

Our client is a fast-growing consultancy that helps organisations unlock the full potential of their data and analytics capabilities. Working across industries, they design and deliver data strategies, modern data platforms, advanced analytics, and AI solutions that drive measurable business impact. Their approach blends deep technical expertise with commercial insight, ensuring solutions are not only technically sound but also well-adopted and strategically aligned.

With an expanding UK footprint, they are building out their consulting team to deliver high-value engagements and shape the direction of their growing practice.

The Role

This is a senior consulting position that combines strategic leadership, client engagement, and hands-on delivery. As Lead Analytics Consultant, you will work at the intersection of data strategy, AI opportunity, and delivery execution — helping clients define their goals, creating the roadmap to achieve them, and ensuring solutions deliver lasting value.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end data and AI strategy engagements from scoping to adoption.
• Facilitate workshops with senior stakeholders to set priorities, metrics, and success criteria.
• Translate business needs into actionable technical and analytical solutions.
• Identify opportunities to maximise value from data initiatives.
• Oversee delivery teams to maintain high standards and ensure client objectives are met.
• Mentor and develop junior consultants, building both technical and consulting capability.
• Contribute to account growth through exceptional delivery and trusted relationships.

About You

• Proven track record in leading data strategy and analytics projects , ideally with AI/ML exposure.
• Strong commercial and consulting skills, able to engage with both technical and business leaders.
• Broad technical knowledge across data platforms, pipelines, governance, and analytics .
• Ability to combine hands-on delivery with strategic advisory .
• Collaborative, energetic, and motivated, with a drive for continuous improvement.
• Flexible to travel to client sites (primarily London, with occasional regional travel).

What’s on Offer

• Opportunity to shape the direction of a growing UK consultancy.
• Variety of high-impact projects across multiple industries.
• Supportive, collaborative culture focused on innovation and quality.
• Competitive package with bonus and benefits.

If you’re a strategic thinker with a passion for data and AI — and the drive to deliver measurable impact — we’d love to hear from you.

An amazing new job opportunity has arisen for an experienced Lead Consultant Psychiatrist to work in a brand new mental health hospital in Clacton on Sea, Essex area. You will be working for one of UK's leading healthcare providers

This mental health hospital provides an acute inpatient service for men and women aged 18+ specialising in the assessment and treatment of individuals in crisis or suffering from a significant mental health illness

**To be considered for this position you must have an MRCPsychiatry or equivalent with full GMC registration**

As the Lead Consultant Psychiatrist your key responsibilities include:

• Responsible for a caseload in accordance with NICE guidelines
• Lead the multidisciplinary teams in providing holistic care for patients and provide support to their colleagues
• Lead the Care Programme Approach process, provide medical reports and endorse the minutes of CPA meeting
• Liaise and collaborate with external care coordinators and commissioners
• Work with the GP and practice nurse to ensure all patients receive high quality care for physical health and wellbeing
• Undertake the administrative duties associated with the care of patients
• Support the Hospital Director with leading in-service and business planning activities for the locality and the whole service
• Participating in annual appraisal for Consultants
• Attend and participate in Elysium's academic programme, including lectures and seminars as part of the internal CPD programme
• Joint lead managers and professional colleagues to ensure the efficient running of services

The following skills and experience would be preferred and beneficial for the role:

• Be innovative and imaginative with the ability to initiate corporate decisions
• Have essential understanding of current developments in psychiatry and other aspects of mental health
• Have substantial knowledge of change management, relevant legislation, and contemporary issues in mental health, knowledge of and experience in purchaser/provider contractual issues
• Have previous Consultant experience in a management role
• Section 12(2) approval to work in England and Approved clinician status

The successful Lead Consultant Psychiatrist will receive an excellent Competitive Salary. This exciting position is a permanent full time role working on days. In return for your hard work and commitment you will receive the following generous benefits:

• 30 days of annual leave plus Bank holidays- and an additional day off for your birthday
• Wellbeing support and activities to help you maintain a great work-life balance
• 24 hour GP Service to ensure you are the best you can be
• Career development and training to help you achieve your career goals
• Pension contribution to secure your future
• Life Assurance for added peace of mind
• Enhanced Maternity Package so you can truly enjoy this special time

Reference ID: 7034

To apply for this fantastic job role, please call on or send your CV

Business Central Lead Consultant

Our client wants an experienced Business Central Lead Consultant to take the reins on exciting projects and guide clients through digital transformation.

What You’ll Do:

• Own end-to-end Business Central projects – from design to go-live.
• Lead solution design, functional implementation, and mentor the team.
• Keep projects on track, on budget, and on point.
• Be the go-to for clients, translating their business needs into smart solutions.

Who You Are:

• Confident, proactive, and thrive in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Experienced in full lifecycle Business Central projects (bonus if manufacturing or distribution!).
• Budgeting, project planning, resource allocation
• MB-100 certification
• Experience with delivery of bespoke projects

Perks:

• Work with a collaborative, forward-thinking team.
• Shape digital transformations that really matter.
• Plenty of room to flex your leadership and problem-solving muscles.

Ready to make your mark in Business Central? Step in and lead the way!

For more information, get in touch !

As Lead Consultant you will have responsibility for assisting clients to transform their finance, supply chain and procurement functions through advisory, implementation and support activities with a focus on leveraging SAP based technologies.

You will play a leading role in your area of expertise with the aim to successfully deliver and implement projects within the agreed scope to the highest level of quality. You will be leading a team of consultants within a workstream of a large project or acting as a project manager in smaller engagements. You will be responsible for coaching, mentoring and assigning activities to your project team as well as engaging with senior stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Act as project/functional lead and ensure project deliverables are executed on time and to budget
• Document clients process flow to capture as is/to be process
• Write requirement and specification documents capturing client needs
• Configure system in line with requirements and specification documents
• Develop testing scripts in line with configured system and client requirement
• Execute and support on client testing
• Prepare and deliver presentations to support the engagement and workshops with clients
• Work effectively with senior stake holders and project team
• Maintain application knowledge as assigned to business process areas
• Solve a company’s business requirements through the blending of people, process and technology
• Direct and assign project task to team members and providing ongoing support through coaching, mentoring
• Identify ‘deviations’ and take appropriate corrective action
• Effectively transfer design and configuration knowledge to team members and provide ‘Best Business Practice’ knowledge to aid in the design process
• Support the sales team with presales activities including demos, RFP responses and technical discovery workshops

Performance Indicators

• Drive the overall success of the project workstream
• Performing assigned tasks on time to the highest quality/standard
• Builds high performing teams by providing clear accountabilities, coaching and mentoring
• Identifying business development opportunities within projects and handing over to sales team
• Demonstrates a working understanding of accelerated implementation methodology and tools especially an AGILE templated methodology to cover client implementation and rollouts.
• Constantly Seeking opportunities to develop and expand knowledge

Personal Attributes

• Takes accountability/ownership for the projects assigned to them
• Natural “improver” and aspires to drive change
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate effectively in order to find a solution
• Having the patience and tenacity to work through complex problems
• Ability to influence and motivate others

Knowledge

• Strong understanding of business processes within Purchase to Pay (P2P) and wider Source to Pay
• Ideally Certified in SAP Ariba
• Understanding of project methodologies e.g AGILE, Prince2, SAP Activate

Experience

• Minimum of 5-7 years' experience in a broad range of digital procurement technologies i.e. Fairmarkit, ZIP, ServiceNow, ORO
• Strong procurement process best practice advisory experience in areas such as Buying Channels, Policy, Operating model
• Experience having worked on multiple life cycle implementation as Consultant/Lead Consultant on business transformation engagements
• Experience leading project teams including onshore/offshore models
• Highly experienced in leading client workshops and requirement gathering sessions
• External consulting experience is a strong desirable
• Presales experience an advantage

Lead Implementation consultant (ERP, Finance, Distribution, CRM, Project Management) - Lead a dynamic team and drive end-to-end ERP projects in a thriving niche market!

A lead Implementation consultant (ERP, Finance, Distribution, CRM, Project Management) is required by a growing, highly profitable software vendor based in Halesowen. This company is the market leader in supply chain software. With 33 employees and a stellar reputation.

You will need:

• Solid ERP implementation experience across finance, distribution, supply chain
• A track record of managing ERP projects and leading consultants.
• Hands-on project management and implementation skills.
• Experience in discovery, scoping, and functional requirements.
• Strong knowledge of accounting principles (credits, debits, P&L, depreciation).

You will receive structured onboarding by shadowing existing projects, then quickly progress into leading implementations and overseeing the 2 other consultants. You'll work on the whole ERP solution, ensuring clients receive high-quality end-to-end solutions.

As Lead Implementation consultant, you'll manage a small team (2 ERP consultants, 1 CRM consultant), while actively contributing to project delivery. The role is hands-on and strategic - a genuine player-manager position.

What makes this role stand out:

• Lead a tight-knit implementation team in a low-turnover, high-retention business.
• Join a company where people stay, grow, and double their salary through internal promotions.
• See projects through from discovery to go-live.
• Enjoy a fun, collaborative office environment (3 days per week in Halesowen).