Principal Consultant

Original intelligence

We’re an AI-native, human-led business built to help clients reimagine, reinvent, and lead their markets into the AI era. We bring the imagination, intellect and market insight, execution smarts, and adaptive approach to collaboration required to help leaders deliver real change.

We work with clients in four closely interdependent markets: central Government, education and training, health and care, and - increasingly - the FTSE. With those clients, we provide a combination of strategy, innovation, transformation, and capability-building support - including offshore dev capability.

Through A WORKS we collaborate with thought leaders, innovators, and AI-specialist devs to build products which tackle the biggest problems we see in the markets we support – setting aside the consulting commercial model to work in whatever ways best solve the problem.

For example, through Project Shybird, we’ve built an AI-powered platform and apps which reimagine the learning value chain: conducting capability research, supporting rapid qualification and programme definition, enabling course design and content creation, personalisation of learning experiences – and new levels of insight for the future.

We’re a business powered by the passion, grit, insight, intellect, and execution-smarts of our people: a tightly knit team of experts, willing to challenge market convention, and our colleagues, in pursuit of the transformational change we believe is possible through the dawn of the AI era.

The role

Market specialism

Maintain deep understanding of policy, spending, and market trends in central Government, education and / or health.

Support market leaders to establish Avencera as recognised thought leader and influencer in the market.

Maintain strong, senior-level, network in your market and discipline - and leverage to support growth.

We're keen to hear from colleagues with specialism in any of the following:

• Digital strategy, transformation, and product management
• Central Government - including policy, spending, implementation, and assurance
• Education and training - including policy, product development, and delivery
• Health and care - including policy, innovation, and transformation
• Major deals - including capture, pursuit, bid, and mobilisation

Discipline specialism

Personal specialism in some combination of strategy, innovation, digital, transformation and / or capabilty-building.

Support colleagues to develop their capability and confidence on your specialist field(s).

Maintain AI flency required to deliver for clients, consistent with our positioning.

Client leadership

Lead delivery of variety of client engagements, consistent with our quality approach and high delivery standards.

Deliver agreed commercial outcomes from individual engagements, i.e. resourcing, third-party cost, and profitability.

Support and manage colleagues to contribute effectively to the delivery of engagement outputs and outcomes.

Ensure that we capture, reflect, and act on client feedback and market signals to drive impact and growth.

Work with Chief Delivery Officer to drive timely, resource-efficient, delivery of all client engagements.

Identify and seize opportunities to expand client relationships and generate sustained revenues.

Operational leadership

Lead and manage colleagues at all levels to work in a manner consistent with Avencera's quality approach.

Work closely with Avencera's operations team to drive efficiency, compliance, and commercial outcomes.

Collaborate with colleagues to identify, build, and adopt AI innovations which drive productivity.

Team leadership

Work with Chief Delivery Officer and senior colleagues to shape, lead, and develop Avencera for the long-term.

Engage, inspire, and support colleagues at all levels to develop, specialise, and build their Avencera careers.

Provide supportive, developmental, line management to colleagues - and support others to do so.

Demonstrate and champion Avencera's values.

Person specification

Ability to shape / lead the maintenance of a differentiated market position.

Significant experience working in education, health and / or central Government.

High levels of ambition, energy and resilience, consistent with the firm’s plans for growth.

Ability to engage, inspire, lead, and support the development of an incredibly talented team.

Experience leading the delivery of sophisticated pieces of work at pace, and to exacting standards.

Strong communication and presentation skills, internally and externally, at all organisational levels.

Enjoyment working in an entrepreneurial, commercial, high-performance environment. 

High levels of precision and presentational pride across all your work. 

Working location

At least 1-2 days per week in the firm’s Farringdon office.  

Package

Basic salary of £95-110k.

Up to 20% bonus based on firm and individual performance. 

27 days’ annual leave (excl. bank holidays), rising to 30 based on performance.   

Private medical and dental insurance.  

4% pension contributions.