Senior Consultant RC348
Contract type/Duration: Permanent
Working hours Full time (9day Fortnight companywide)
Band: 3.3
Salary: £63,340 to £73,000 (depending on office location and proven ability)
Reports to: Head of Infrastructure
Location: Milton Keynes/London (minimum of two days a week in the office. You can do more than two days if preferable)
Closing date: 10am 27th of April 2026
The Role
The Senior Consultant is a core part of our emerging Infrastructure team. You will deliver impact across UK infrastructure sectors by enabling innovation to move from ideas to adoption at scale, improving carbon, productivity and safety outcomes across infrastructure systems.
We are collaborative by nature and believe that the most effective way to deliver impact is through collaborative innovation. Working across sectors with government, major infrastructure clients, their supply chains and the wider innovation ecosystem reduces duplication, shares risk and accelerates solutions to common challenges.
The Senior Consultant will identify, shape, secure and deliver new work. This includes leading early project phases, shaping bids and funding proposals, closing opportunities, and taking responsibility for delivery, either directly or by coordinating multidisciplinary teams across the Catapult.
The role requires deep understanding of the systemic and organisational barriers limiting innovation adoption in infrastructure such as commercial, regulation and assurance. It also requires strong understanding of what is possible with state‑of‑the‑art technologies, tools and approaches, and the ability to work with the market to demonstrate, de‑risk and enable adoption in practice. Accelerating the adoption and scaling of innovation supports CPC’s mission to transform infrastructure challenges into opportunities for innovative businesses
The role requires deep sector expertise across the infrastructure value chain, with particular emphasis on utilities, energy, water and transport. You will also need a clear understanding of the constraints and opportunities of cross sector collaboration. You will build strategic partnerships with infrastructure clients, suppliers, government and regulators. Experience working with or for major public infrastructure clients, and hands‑on experience of construction delivery on large capital programmes, is highly valued.
Candidates will bring strong technical credibility in one or more of the following areas: infrastructure delivery, digital and industrialised construction, infrastructure carbon reduction, Infratech, ConTech, Safetytech or whole‑life asset management, alongside a grounded understanding of how major capital programmes are delivered in practice.
Commercial
- Meet revenue and utilisation targets by identifying, shaping and winning new opportunities
- Identify and develop opportunities with clients, partners and the wider ecosystem, progressing early discussions into funded and contracted work
- Contribute to and lead bids and proposals, shaping compelling propositions and managing sell‑ons and second‑phase wins
- Build and maintain strong client relationships, developing senior buy‑in
- Maintain accurate CRM records for stakeholder contacts, opportunities and accounts to support pipeline management
Delivery
- Scope and lead streams of work, including planning, budgeting, resourcing and defining deliverables
- Manage delivery performance, including PMO oversight, commercial control, risk and quality management
- Coordinate core and virtual teams, working across disciplines and business units to deliver high‑quality outcomes
- Design and plan professional, innovative delivery, ensuring excellence in outputs and outcomes
Engagement and Expertise
- Apply specialist expertise to delivery and proposal development, contributing insight and professional judgement
- Translate complex challenges into practical outcomes, supporting innovation to move from concept to implementation
- Provide thought leadership, contributing to publications, events and professional communities
- Support learning and development, including mentoring colleagues and maintaining own professional development
People and Culture
- Support learning and development within project teams, including mentoring junior colleagues and sharing expertise
- Champion equity, inclusivity and sustainability, embedding inclusive innovation across all activities
Undertake other reasonable duties required to support CPC’s strategic objectives and effective operations
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Deep infrastructure sector understanding and appreciation of systemic, commercial, regulatory and assurance pressures.
- Expertise in Business development
- Proficiency in in one or more of: infrastructure delivery, digital and industrialised construction, infrastructure carbon reduction, Infratech, ConTech, Safetytech, and whole-life asset management
- Spark creative thinking across all tasks.
- Apply systems thinking to problem solving.
- Create effective networks.
- Use personal influence to progress beyond challenges and blockers.
- Use experience to provide the voice of the customer in all activities.
- Effectively manage communication across teams and stakeholders, lead meetings and contribute to publications and events.
- Co-ordinate plans across activities.
- Role model agility and adaptation.
- Champion and promote inclusion and sustainability.
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9 day fortnight for everyone, every other Friday.
- 23.5 holiday entitlement for everyone, with pro-rata calculations for part-time employees, along with a Christmas shutdown period for additional days off.
- Competitive pension, up to 10% company contribution to help you save for your future.
- Two paid days of volunteering leave per year (pro-rata for part-time employees) to support charitable activities.
- Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) providing 24/7 confidential work/life support services to you and your immediate family members.
- Cycle to Work Scheme encouraging a healthy and sustainable commute.
- Cash Health Plan, offering reimbursement for a wide range of essential and everyday healthcare expenses, promoting your well-being.
- Payroll Giving scheme, allowing regular charitable contributions from pre-tax income, maximizing the impact of your donations.
- Discounts and offers from a wide variety of retailers, enhancing your purchasing power and providing savings opportunities.
- Mortgage Advice benefit, delivered in partnership with Charles Cameron & Associates – provides employees with free, expert mortgage advice and end-to-end mortgage support from the application process through to completion.
Employment here is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, colour, religion, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make all reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.
At Connected Places Catapult, we are on a mission to create better connected places across the UK and beyond. We believe that innovation is the key to unlocking the potential of our towns, cities, and transport systems, making them more sustainable, inclusive, and prosperous for everyone.
When connected places work, it benefits:
People: wellbeing, access and inclusion for everyone.
Planet: sustainable and increasingly regenerative living and moving.
Prosperity: prosperous local economies and trade.
From supporting SMEs to develop clean transport technologies to helping local authorities unlock innovation in public procurement, our work is making a tangible difference. We help businesses secure millions in investment, create jobs, and drive forward solutions that address climate change, social isolation, and economic inequality.
