Senior Consultant; Insights and Investments) RC

Location Milton Keynes or London

Working hours Full time

Contract type/duration:
Permanent

Band: 3.1

Salary: £51,395 to £62,013 (Dependent on office location and proven ability)

Reporting to: Head of Enterprise and Investment

Closing date: 10am on the 28th of September

We are seeking an entrepreneurial and commercially experienced Senior Consultant to join the Enterprise Insights and Investment team.

The team helps innovative businesses strengthen their commercial foundations, overcome barriers to growth, scale successfully and access the relationships, expertise and investment they need to realise their potential.

As a team we support earlier stage businesses to validate their propositions, establish effective business models, route-to-market strategies and prepare for future growth, and growth-stage businesses that have demonstrated early market potential and are seeking to scale.

Drawing on first-hand experience of building, growing or working closely with entrepreneurial businesses, the Senior Consultant will provide practical, evidence-led support to founders and leadership teams. This may include business model development, growth strategy, customer and market validation, go-to-market planning, organisational scaling, partnership development and investment readiness.

As the team's offer develops, they may also be opportunities to contribute to new propositions such as venture-building activity.

• Diagnose the commercial, strategic and operational challenges facing SMEs, building trusted relationships with founders and leadership teams to understand business needs, identify barriers to growth and scaling and shape appropriate support approaches.
• Facilitate constructive discussions with founders and leadership teams, helping them evaluate opportunities, challenge assumptions and make informed commercial decisions.
• Deliver targeted, practical commercial support to SMEs through structured analysis, workshops and one-to-one engagement, helping founders and leadership teams address barrier to growth and scaling.
• Support SMEs to validate and refine their value proposition, business models, customer propositions and go-to-market strategies.
• Help growth-stage businesses develop practical plans for scaling.
• Work with earlier-stage businesses, where appropriate to strengthen their commercial foundations and prepare them for future growth.
• Translate evidence and insight into clear, actionable recommendations, supporting businesses to prioritise decisions and implement next steps.

• Assess SME investment readiness and provide practical coaching to help founders and leadership teams address gaps.
• Conduct market and industry analysis, including market sizing, customer and competitor assessment, and strategic insight, to inform SME growth plans, commercial decisions and investment propositions.
• Support SMEs to strengthen the commercial narrative, evidence and materials underpinning their growth and potential fundraising plans.
• Work collaboratively with CPCs fund and investment expertise to ensure SMEs receive appropriate aligned specialist support, and where relevant, access to suitable investors or funding partners.

You will be a founder, former founder, early-stage executive, scale-up operator or deeply embedded entrepreneurial adviser who has helped build and grow businesses, understands the realities of fundraising, and can translate that experience into structured, evidence-led support for other founders. Strong candidates could also have been:

• An early employee or senior operator in a start-up or scale-up
• A venture studio or accelerator lead
• A portfolio support profession with substantial hands‑on company-building experience
• A commercial leader who has taken a business through significant growth and fundraising.