Lead Strategy & Transformation Consultant

Role Summary

Provide senior leadership across strategic transformation, combining advisory consulting, transformation design and delivery oversight to ensure strategy is translated into clear, executable outcomes.

PACT Solutions is a specialist management and digital transformation consultancy working exclusively with higher education institutions across the UK.

We help universities solve complex challenges across strategy, student records, data, change and delivery. As we grow, we want to strengthen the way we run the business internally while protecting the quality, culture and partner focus that have made us successful.

Lead transformation engagements across advisory and delivery, shaping direction, structuring programmes and ensuring alignment between strategy, architecture and execution.

• Lead strategic transformation engagements and programmes
• Shape transformation direction, roadmaps and delivery approaches
• Lead advisory and discovery work with senior stakeholders
• Align strategy, operating model, architecture and delivery
• Oversee delivery of transformation work streams and programmes
• Facilitate senior stakeholder engagement and decision-making
• Line manage and develop consultants within the capability
• Contribute to capability development, methods and frameworks
• Support account growth, proposals and pre-sales activity

Our values sit at the heart of everything we do:

• Partnership:
  We work with you, not for you.
• Integrity:
  We do the right thing, even when it requires difficult conversations.
• Inquisitive:
  We dig deeper to uncover what will truly deliver value.
• Transformative:
  We focus on outcomes that create lasting, measurable improvement.

Lead strategic transformation across universities, shaping direction, delivery and capability while contributing to the growth of a high-impact consultancy.

This role sits at the Lead level within PACT's consulting career pathway (Analyst – Consultant – Senior Consultant – Lead – Principal), with responsibility for leading complex engagements, developing people and shaping capability.

• Significant experience in strategy, transformation or consulting roles
• Experience leading transformation programmes or major work streams
• Strong understanding of operating models, capability design and architecture
• Experience operating in advisory roles with senior stakeholders
• Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation and communication skills
• Experience managing and developing teams

• Higher education or student lifecycle transformation experience
• Exposure to enterprise architecture or capability modelling
• Consultancy or transformation environment experience