Strategy Principal Consultant

**About The Role**:
As a Strategy Principal Consultant specialising in Change and Transformation, you will

help to shape and head up our strategic consulting proposition within Manifesto playing a critical role in guiding clients through complex digital and data transformation initiatives. Reporting to the Strategy and Innovation Director, you will leverage your expertise in digital and data transformation frameworks, organisational change, and change management methodologies to help clients achieve measurable outcomes such as enhanced digital and data maturity, improved platform utilisation, and greater organisational effectiveness.

Ideally you will bring expertise and experience in the Not-for-Profit (NFP) sector, this role allows you to work across other sectors, including Membership, Visitor attractions, Higher education and aligned commercial clients. You will address these sectors' unique challenges and opportunities while ensuring best practices are applied to deliver transformative results.

This role combines understanding the macro challenges facing these sectors with the ability to design and lead strategies tailored to each client’s unique needs. You will collaborate with senior leaders, delivery teams, and sector specialists, ensuring alignment between strategic vision and technical implementation. As a thought leader, you will contribute to Manifesto’s external presence through speaking engagements, whitepapers, and sector-focused thought leadership. Additionally, you will stay informed about trends and issues impacting our sectors, bringing fresh insights to your work and our clients.

Learn more about the role:
To learn more about the role take a look at this video where Cherie Chambers our Strategy & Innovation Director talks through the role and what it's like to work at manifesto in more detail **here**.**

**Key Objectives**
- Strategic Leadership: Deliver transformative strategies that align with client objectives and Manifesto’s values, driving measurable improvements in digital maturity and organisational effectiveness.
- Client Impact: Build trusted relationships with stakeholders at all levels, from board members to grassroots teams, ensuring alignment and shared ownership of transformation goals.
- Innovation Excellence: Helping clients understand the link between data and digital strategy and how data eco systems drive and support digital transformation. Provide expertise in emerging technologies such as AI and automation, helping clients navigate opportunities and threats.
- Sector Insights: Stay informed about trends and challenges across NFP, Membership, Visitor attractions, education and aligned commercial sectors, integrating this knowledge into your strategies.
- Commercial Growth: Identify growth opportunities and contribute to securing transformation-focused contracts.
- Thought Leadership: Position Manifesto as a leader in digital transformation across sectors through external representation and thought leadership contributions.

**Key Accountabilities**

**Client Engagement**
- Lead the strategic direction of transformation projects, working with multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, outcome-focused solutions.
- Build and manage client roadmaps, aligning strategies with organisational priorities and operational realities.
- Facilitate workshops, presentations, and discussions with senior client stakeholders, ensuring clarity, alignment, and actionable outcomes.
- Establish and maintain feedback loops to measure client satisfaction and drive continuous improvement.
- Guide clients in defining their measures of success, ensuring outcomes are meaningful and achievable.

**Strategic Leadership**
- Work with the Director of Strategy and innovation to help shape our propositions in the digital transformation space
- Provide clarity in complex transformation scenarios, prioritising initiatives that deliver maximum value.
- Contribute to the evolution of manifesto’s transformation frameworks, ensuring relevance and excellence across all client engagements.
- Serve as a Wayfinder for design and delivery teams, setting the north star for transformation projects.
- Regularly update your knowledge of sector-specific challenges, opportunities, and trends to inform and enhance client strategies.
- Lead on cross-organisational transformational initiative (projects with a blended TPX team) where manifesto is the lead - accountable for collaborative working relationships that bring value and insight to the work and the client

**Change and Transformation Expertise**
- Leverage expertise in membership, visitor attractions and higher education and aligned commercial sectors to address their unique transformation challenges.
- Design forward-thinking strategies using digital transformation frameworks (e.g., McKinsey, Agile, Gartner, etc.) and collaboration tools. These strategies should always consider the impact and opportunities of emerging technologies like AI and automation