Operational Improvement

3 days ago


Cheltenham, United Kingdom Electus Recruitment Solutions Ltd Full time

Salary-:
- £40000 - £60000 per annum- Location-:
- Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, South West, EnglandYour in depth understanding of how to improve business operations in a highly regulated industry, could provide an immediate benefit to our top-tier defence client.

As an Operational Improvement Consultant, you will consult, advise, and build relationships with clients to support the solving of a range of complex business problems.

Your ability to analyse customer requirements will be welcomed, and your experience in building long and lasting relationships will prove valuable.

You will have the opportunity to work with company that wants their professionals to work on projects they are proud of, encourages continuing professional development, values diversity and supports a range of sectors including Aerospace, Defence, Rail, Security, Energy, Highways and Public sectors.

An excellent opportunity to show your breadth of knowledge around Operations Improvement across a range of sectors, whilst developing your commercial and consulting skills.

**About the job**
The Operational Improvement Consultant is required to join their experienced Operational Improvement team. Along with strong technical competencies and capabilities, the role requires a high level of soft skills and preparedness to provide quantitative and qualitive summaries of your work.

**Role Responsibilities**
- Delivering consulting and advisory services to achieve excellent results for our clients; primarily focused on operational improvement.
- 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**
As a Principal/Senior Operational Improvement Consultant, your skills and qualifications will include:

- Analysing how organisations operate and what their customers need.
- Be able to define the vision and purpose of an organisation or programme, using a variety of tools and processes.
- Understand how to measure, quantify, and analyse performance.
- Be comfortable handling quantitative data.
- Technical experience in process mapping and process design.
- Experience of using modelling, trialling or piloting to prototype solutions and test ideas, aiding analysis and enabling evidence-based decision making.
- Be comfortable providing quantitative and qualitative summaries of your work and adapting your presentation style to stakeholders across all levels of the organisation.

**Desirable experience**
- Delivering in Waterfall and (scaled) agile methods.
- Supportive team player that can communicate and collaborate effectively with a wide range of people.
- Ability to transfer skills and knowledge to colleagues and clients.
- Ability to build good and lasting relationships with clients at all levels.
- Strong technical ability to deliver presentations and facilitate workshops.
- Experience in one or more of our key markets (Defence, Aerospace, Security, Energy, Utilities, Highways, Rail and the Public Sector).
- Experience of contributing to the sale of management consulting work - including bid development and presentations.

**Overview**
Operational Improvement Consultant, Engineering, Defence, Consultancy.

Bristol, Cheltenham, London, or Manchester, with flexible & hybrid working.

Competitive salary and comprehensive pension package

Career and professional development opportunities.

Key skills: Operations Improvement, Client development, Bids, Tenders, Presenting.

Superb opportunity to work for a leading defence company in a highly visible and critical role.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries.

We thank you for your interest in this vacancy.

You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time.

Due to the nature of work undertaken by our client, incumbents of these positions are required to undergo pre-employment screening, and must be able to satisfy clearance criteria for UK Security Vetting to SC Level.

This is a permanent position.



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