Principal Consultant

Bath, Fareham, London, Southampton, Teddington The Role

Supporting Complex Change to Transform Organisations

About BMT

We exist to navigate the most important and impactful engineering challenges of our time. We create environments where people with outstanding technical knowledge deliver meaningful, practical solutions. We are driven by a commitment to a safer, more efficient, effective, and sustainable future. To find out more about BMT please go to

We know that diversity, equity, and inclusion are critical to achieving our purpose as a business. Our goal is to build more diverse teams and to create an environment where employees are engaged, thriving, and feel a sense of belonging.

Why work for us?

At BMT, our employee benefits are designed to ensure you have the resources you need to thrive.

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a wide range of benefits in areas including health, family, finance, and personal development. An example of some of the benefits we offer.

· Private Medical (family coverage)

· Enhanced Pension

· Wellbeing Fund – a yearly fund for you to spend on a hobby or interest.

· 26 Days Annual Leave (plus bank holidays)

We are recognised by our customers for the calibre of our people and integration of social value and sustainability into our work, as demonstrated by our finalist status in 2023 in both the Management Consultancy Awards and Energy Industry Council Awards. We are looking to build on this success by growing our services in strategy, organisational design and change management.

As a Principal Consultant you will use a mix of strong business acumen, core consulting skills, technical professional skills and leadership experience to work with our customers to provide independent, impartial advice and expertise, enabling them to achieve the outcomes that they deserve. In doing this, you will support customers to develop their own skills to deliver sustainable, beneficial change.

This is a full-time role and will require a mix of remote, hybrid and onsite working, where this may be in any of our offices including London, Bath or on customer sites. Travel will be required and may require overnight stays depending on location of work.

About you

We require people with a combination of technical and softer skills – how you do things is as important as what you do. The success in this role demands a highly developed collaborative nature, exceptional communication and empathy balancing strong strategic and analytical orientation.

Successful candidates will:

• Have demonstrable experience of working in and delivering strategic and change projects and programmes in Agile and/or Waterfall delivery in complex environments.
• Experience (at least three years) in projects underpinned by technical skills in one or more areas of strategy, organisational design, target operating model development, business analysis business architecture and change management.
• Able to flexibly select, combine and apply your own technical knowledge and specialisms to address any particular customer problem.
• Articulate methodologies, evaluation, and results in a straightforward, understandable, and non-technical manner.
• Be an independently minded critical thinker able to navigate complexity and delivering change.

National security vetting: clearance levels

Some of projects require our people to have received security clearance at SC level. Applicants should identify if they currently hold SC, or if they do not their willingness to apply for the appropriate level of clearance. For further information on requirements, information can be found here United Kingdom Security Vetting: Applicant - GOV.UK (

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Does this sound like you? If so, please submit your application as soon as possible. We look forward to learning more about you.

A message to recruitment agencies: We receive applications exclusively via our ATS. Please note that we do not accept CVs submitted via email to the HR department or staff within our Operational teams. We will not progress CVs shared on a speculative basis by email and you accept our right to pursue such candidates with no obligation to third-party terms and conditions or liability to a fee