Consultants – Through Life Decision Support

Through Life Decision Support Practice
 

The DS&S Through Life Decision Support (TLDS) Practice works with major industry and government clients to develop solutions to complex business problems. The work draws on sophisticated operational, risk and financial modelling and analysis to evaluate the range of available options and scenarios.

Typical project work consists of a small number of consultants embedded within a larger client team, broadly from 3-12 months in duration.

Projects span the major equipment lifecycle, with teams supporting projects in the concept and assessment phase, design and manufacture, and equipments currently in-service.

Requirements vary widely - for example within the concept phase, work may focus on the development at enterprise level of processes and tools to support future design trades and form the basis of through-life decision support systems.

For mature equipments, work covers many aspects from ongoing bid activities (for example improving information maturity and moving from reactive to pre-emptive information development to support reduced bid turn-round times) to supporting the development and implementation of new commercial arrangements, such as moving to availability based contracts.

Our work is also based across the environments, with projects already based in land, sea and air and further projects expected in central planning organisations.
 

Consultants

To meet the continuing and expanding demand for its services, the firm is now looking to add to its TLDS team with a number of recruitments.

Job Description:

• Produce fact based analysis for major bids and or programmes
• Quickly assimilate data and information to gain an understanding of the current position of the programme
• Advise and implement best practice modelling and analysis
• Understand commercial implications, and advise on best practice for the development and refinement of economic models to ensure the client can run sensitivity and scenario tests through models and analysis
• To ensure quality knowledge transfer to client staff, to assist in the development of a client based capability
• Based in Farnborough, but travel expected across the UK in line with client requirements
   

Experience profile:

Minimum of 3-5 years proven track record in a service business environment, preferably within a strong consultancy environment:

• A Defence or National Security & Resilience focus, with a background in engineering, supply chain or finance & commercial
• Significant experience of analysis within a single function (e.g. Finance), together with a business mindset
• Successfully completed several pieces of high quality analysis from problem definition to solution
• Experienced at using a variety of analysis tools & techniques, with high level Excel skills
• Presented complex analysis to senior management and facilitated a team
• Experience of Operations, Financial and Business analysis
• Adept at facilitating and managing complex discussions and activities such as data gathering
   

Experience of consulting to the defence and/or government/public sector community would be a significant advantage. Specific experience of work with either the Home Office and/or the Police Service would be particularly highly-valued.

Contact:

Tim Underwood
Defence Strategy & Solutions LLP
200 Fowler Avenue
IQ Farnborough
Farnborough
GU14 7JP

Direct Line: +44 (0) 1252 531698
Email: tim.underwood@defencestrategy.com
www.defencestrategy.com