Senior Strategy and Change Consultant at Made Tech

Lakes, England, United Kingdom -

Full Time

Start Date

Immediate

Expiry Date

25 Jul, 26

Salary

65000.0

Posted On

26 Apr, 26

Experience

5 year(s) or above

Remote Job

Yes

Telecommute

Yes

Sponsor Visa

Skills

Transformation, Strategy development, Change management, Stakeholder engagement, Business analysis, Service design, Product management, Digital transformation, Public sector consulting, Data analysis, Leadership, Communication, Risk management, Business readiness, Facilitation, Mentoring

Industry

IT Services and IT Consulting

Description

Senior Strategy and Change Consultant Application Deadline: 31 May 2026 Department: Strategy & Design Employment Type: Permanent Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea) Compensation: £55,000 - £65,000 / year Description Summary Made Tech wants to positively impact the country's future by using technology to improve society. We believe being design-led can create positive outcomes in the public sector through critical services enabled by technology. Our Senior Strategy & Change Practitioners are responsible for delivering on strategically significant client engagements across our portfolio of public sector clients. We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs strong practice skills and subject matter expertise excellent leadership a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment the ability to translate meaningful strategy into effective implementation We expect our Senior Strategy & Change Practitioner to bring all of this and to enthuse our multidisciplinary teams, and clients with the same passion. About the role Senior Strategy & Change Practitioners help teams deliver lasting, valuable change. They design, shape, and deliver approaches to change and strategy development. The role will identify, evaluate and recommend options, working closely with client partners and delivery teams. The role holder will be confident in engaging clients and different levels, and experienced at tailoring communication to stakeholders’ needs and working with them to build relationships. Strategy and Change Seniors have experience in working in digital transformation programmes with multidisciplinary teams including product, delivery, User Centred Design, and technical roles. They prepare the business for the changes delivered by the project. They act as a bridge between the project and business users, ensuring that activities are planned and completed to help the business implement the agreed change and realise the benefits. The role works within complex business scenarios, translating business drivers, goals and constraints into business outcomes, to define required capabilities that will enable our clients to expedite organisational change. Delivery of good public services for users with clients Delivery and adoption of good public services for users with clients, shown through relevant measures, for example, data, metrics, KPIs or the passing of service standards Personal performance is aligned with DDaT and SFIA grade, evidenced through peer feedback Key Responsibilities Supports a Strategy and Change Lead to design and implement change approaches and lead business change activities Provides advice and support to our teams and our clients. Helping to shape design and delivery of transformation initiatives covering a wide range of topics: Cost reduction Workforce transformation New operating models Enterprise agility Continuous improvement Customer/user experience strategy Business change communication & enablement AI / data transformation Supporting the creation of business cases and relevant proposals for change Identifies and classifies stakeholders, ensuring their inclusion in the stakeholder engagement plan, leads engagement through developing communications products. Identifies, qualifies, and updates business readiness criteria across areas of responsibility before implementation. Devises ways to track adoption and reports to senior stakeholders Familiar with a range of strategy frameworks and can apply them to the client context for the best outcomes Champions best practices and provides expert advice to team members and the Strategy & Design community. Assesses and understands the impact on stakeholders to enhance their adoption of the change. Identifying new business opportunities and raising them with delivery and account teams, and provides strategy and change responses for bids and proposals Helping to promote better integration of the Strategy and Change practice across Made Tech Contributes to the Advisory and Change practice through developing tools, templates, and training Skills, Knowledge & Expertise Transformation: Experience of working in a transformation team to deliver valuable, lasting change. Able to combine an understanding of digital technologies with the ability to manage, interpret and utilise data to make informed decisions, improve efficiency and achieve outcomes and benefits. Working knowledge of best practice change methodologies Working knowledge of business transformation and strategy frameworks and methodologies Ability to create compelling visions and maintain roadmaps for change Familiarity with how change happens in the Public Sector, for example, the GDS Service Manual Consulting: Clearly articulates client ambitions, collecting insight, delivering analysis and problem resolution Ability to collect, evaluate and recommend options for transformation Ability to identify and amend appropriate frameworks and methodologies to enable a consistent and efficient approach to delivery at all stages of the lifecycle. Willingness to build knowledge of wider Strategy and Design capabilities - business analysis, service design, product management, experience design Organisational Change Management: Executes a change management approach and plan in collaboration with sponsors, users and project teams Creates and implements action plans to ensure everything is ready for the change before going live. Gathers feedback to allow timely improvements to the change management plan and approach. Assesses risks and takes preventative action Ability to systematically identify and monitor risks and issues, planning how to mitigate or respond to those risks and issues and implementing the responses. Desirable: experience of applying behavioural insights to public sector work Stakeholder Relationship Management: Ability to systematically identify, analyse and communicate with stakeholders, using appropriate channels, to ensure all those impacted by the change are engaged, taking account of their levels of influence and particular interests. Comfortable offering alternatives to stakeholders Supports business decision-making processes. Captures and disseminates technical and business information Client Focus Drive to Deliver Learning and Mentoring Experienced in their Profession Facilitation Thinking through Making Job Benefits We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: 30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice If successful, you will be required to undertake an SC clearance

Responsibilities

The role involves designing and delivering strategic change initiatives across public sector client engagements. Practitioners act as a bridge between project teams and business users to ensure successful adoption and realization of organizational outcomes.