Defence & Transformation Consultant

Join a Team Where Your Perspective Matters

At Turner & Townsend, you'll benefit from strong professional development and international exposure, as well as comprehensive health and wellbeing support. Employees also frequently highlight our positive work-life balance and the flexibility offered through hybrid working opportunities.

We know that diverse teams deliver better outcomes and we actively welcome people of all identities, backgrounds, and career journeys. If you're looking for a place where your voice is valued, your potential is supported, and your work has real impact, we'd love to meet you.

Our Cost Centre, Programme Performance, combines practical transformation delivery with advanced risk insight to help organisations make better decisions, manage uncertainty, and deliver consistent programme performance. Our service offerings span Defence, Rail, Infrastructure, Digital and AI, providing support across the full project lifecycle.

We are actively looking to expand the team due to client requirements and are seeking talented individuals to support our broad client portfolio whilst further developing their careers through a range of complex and challenging commissions.

Important:
Before applying, due to the sensitive nature of these projects, you must be a SOLE UK National who is able to achieve and maintain UK MoD Security Clearance (SC). See Security Clearance Section.

The Opportunity:
Change and Transformation Consultant

We have exciting opportunities for Change Management professionals to join our Defence Programme Performance team, supporting clients through complex business, digital and organisational transformations across the UK.

Our team consists of over 50 professionals located throughout the UK, delivering change across major programmes that shape critical national infrastructure, defence capability, transport networks, digital transformation and emerging technologies.

We are looking for individuals with experience supporting change within project, programme or operational environments who are passionate about helping organisations and people navigate change successfully.

As part of our consultancy-focused environment, you'll work closely with clients, taking ownership of engagements and delivering high-quality outcomes that exceed expectations. You can expect a mix of client site attendance and hybrid working, typically up to 60% of your time depending on project requirements.

MAIN PURPOSE OF ROLE:

Responsibilities will include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Develop and implement tailored change management strategies and plans aligned with programme objectives.
• Assess organisational readiness and identify actions required to support successful adoption.

Change Impact Assessment

• Analyse the people, process, technology and organisational impacts of change initiatives.
• Identify change risks, dependencies and opportunities that may affect delivery success.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with stakeholders at all organisational levels.
• Develop engagement strategies that create understanding, commitment and support for change.

Communications

• Design and deliver effective communication plans that clearly articulate the purpose, benefits and impacts of change.
• Support leadership teams in communicating consistently and effectively.

Learning & Capability Development

• Identify training and development requirements.
• Support the design and delivery of learning interventions that enable successful adoption of new processes, systems and behaviours.

Business Readiness

• Measure organisational readiness and adoption throughout programme delivery.
• Develop readiness assessments and recommendations to support successful implementation.

Embedding Change

• Support benefits realisation and adoption tracking.
• Help organisations embed sustainable improvements and realise long-term value.

Facilitation & Coaching

• Facilitate workshops, focus groups and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Coach leaders and teams through periods of significant change.
• Contribute to the growth and development of our change capability.
• Support business development activities and share best practice across the wider team.

We are looking for individuals who can fully demonstrate the following capabilities:

• Experience supporting organisational, business, digital or technology change initiatives.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and relationship management skills.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and influencing abilities.
• Experience…