Principal Strategy & Advisory Consultant
Job Description
We are looking for a Strategy & Advisory Principal to join Version 1’s Transformation Design Group (TDG). This is a senior consulting role for someone who can build trusted relationships with client leaders, navigate ambiguity and shape user-centred digital and business transformation that delivers meaningful outcomes.
You will work across client advisory, complex problem-solving, proposition development and consultative pre-sales. The role combines big-picture thinking with hands-on delivery: you may be helping a leadership team define its transformation vision, unblocking a difficult programme, coaching a multidisciplinary team, or shaping the next opportunity with colleagues across Version 1.
What you will do
Advise and deliver for clients
• Build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders in the public and private sectors, acting as a credible advisor and constructive critical friend.
• Bring structure and clarity to complex, ambiguous business problems, connecting strategy to practical execution.
• Shape and lead advisory engagements and consultancy work packages, drawing on the breadth of TDG capabilities and the wider Version 1 organisation.
• Apply user-centred, evidence-led and commercially aware approaches to transformation, balancing user needs, organisational goals and technical feasibility.
• Adapt your methods to the client context and help clients understand where emerging technologies, including AI, can create genuine value.
• Represent our thinking and experience through client conversations, case studies, professional networks, events and thought leadership.
Help grow our impact
• Identify and shape opportunities with existing and new clients, articulating Version 1’s capabilities and the outcomes they can enable.
• Lead and contribute to compelling proposals, bids and market propositions in partnership with Commercial, Pre-sales, Delivery and capability leaders.
• Use market insight, client intelligence and emerging trends to evolve our propositions and delivery models.
• Create clear, persuasive material that brings our services, evidence and points of view to life.
Work across Version 1
• Build collaborative relationships across the organisation so that clients experience a joined-up Version 1 team.
• Coach colleagues, share expertise and assure the quality of transformation work where your experience can make the greatest difference.
• Contribute as part of a close-knit principal team, combining autonomy with shared ownership and support.
Requirements
Department: Digital, Data and Cloud
Function: Information Technology
Experience Level: Mid-Senior Level