Management Consultant - Defence Technology Innovation

Technology Management Consultant - Defence Technology Innovation
Location: Reading (3-4 days per week on site)
Salary: £50,000 - £60,000 pa (DOE)
Benefits: Up to 10% matched pension, 20% annual performance bonus

*For this role you must be SC Cleared or eligible for SC Clearance (ideally having had it in the past)*

Overview:

iO Associates are working with a well-known Defence & Security innovation consultancy to bring on board a Consultant who will promote, lead and support various technology innovation projects that could benefit the consultancies Defence and Security client base.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the intersection of technology, strategy, and innovation by helping defence customers understand how emerging technologies can solve real-world challenges and deliver measurable value.

Key Responsibilities:

• Shape insights about the future of technology sectors and their application to Defence challenges.
• Produce high-impact outputs and recommendations to guide clients' emerging technology strategies.
• Define how place, programme, ecosystem, investment and insight can create transformational outcomes across key sectors.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior clients and partners, building and maintaining strong external relationships.
• Engage with innovators to understand their needs, challenges and opportunities for growth.
• Coordinate consortia and delivery partnerships to deliver mission-driven innovation initiatives.
• Manage and deliver bespoke business support programmes for startups and scale-ups in the emerging tech space.
• Contribute to the design and delivery of world-class innovation and challenge-led programmes, embedding innovation into long-term strategies.
• Lead or support the development of bids and responses to public sector tenders.
• Assist in the development of HMT Green Book business cases to support investment decisions.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven experience working in a Defence or Security environment, ideally within a Consultancy/Delivery Management style role.
• Understanding or exposure of emerging technologies and an interest in their potential application within the UK Defence industry.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including experience engaging with senior government or Defence stakeholders.
• Ability to develop or support the development of business cases and articulate value through both qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, collaborative environments with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.

Additional Information:

For this role you MUST be eligible for UK Security Clearance which requires you to have continuously lived in the UK for the past 5 years.