Principal Strategy & Advisory Consultant

In this senior role, you will shape user-centered digital and business transformation for clients, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders. You’ll blend strategic vision with hands-on delivery, guiding transformation programmes and cross-functional teams. The role spans advisory, pre-sales, and delivery, with a focus on turning complex problems into actionable outcomes. You’ll work across Version 1 to broaden impact, tell compelling value stories, and influence strategic direction.

• Quarterly profit share scheme
• Career progression and mentorship programs
• Flexible/remote working
• Pension with 5% employee match
• Private healthcare
• Life assurance

• Advise and deliver for clients with senior stakeholders
• Bring structure to ambiguous problems and connect strategy to execution
• Lead advisory engagements and work packages across TDG and Version 1
• Apply user-centered, evidence-led approaches balancing user needs, goals, and feasibility
• Adapt methods to client context and identify value from emerging technologies including AI
• Represent thinking through client conversations, case studies, networks, events and thought leadership
• Identify and shape opportunities with existing and new clients
• Lead and contribute to proposals, bids and market propositions with cross-functional teams
• Foster collaborative relationships across the organization to provide a joined-up client experience
• Coach colleagues and assure quality of transformation work

• 8+ years of experience in consulting or equivalent senior advisory environment
• Deep expertise in at least one TDG discipline (product management, service design, user research, user-centered design, business analysis, change, analytics)
• Ability to coach and connect disciplines
• Confidence engaging with senior/executive stakeholders and clear, constructive communication
• Ability to balance strategic direction with hands-on delivery
• Experience shaping opportunities, proposals and communicating value
• Commercial awareness and ability to balance customer outcomes with delivery realities
• Excellent written, facilitation and presentation skills

• Curious and analytical
• Collaborative and low ego
• Customer focused
• Product management
• Service design
• User research