UK remote
Principal Strategy & Advisory Consultant
About this role
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.