Consultant Digtal & Automation

Job description

Are you an Automation expert using new and emerging technologies to help your clients achieve their goals?

Our Automation consulting team is rapidly growing, we have an opportunity for a Digital & Automation Consultant. This role has responsibility for client facing requirements gathering to capture as-is process and map to-be process vision. It involves identifying automation blockers, identifying automation enablers, and articulating them to the client.

The role is also responsible for producing functional design document (FDD) to accurately capture the client's requirement and transition the process into next stage of delivery, bringing understanding of business process/robotics to support development/testing during delivery.

We can offer great career progression opportunities, ability to be based anywhere across the UK, benefits which you can flex to meet your needs and training and development opportunities.

This role is Hybrid-Variable, meaning you can work from home or the office as much or as little as you like. There will be some travel to various client sites across the UK and to our Salford Quays site, in Manchester, Leeds or London where most of the team are based, around 1 - 2 days a month.

What you'll be doing:

• Managing the successful delivery of activities as part of a consulting project in order to achieve revenue targets and high levels of customer happiness.
• Using fresh thinking to identify additional consulting opportunities and craft innovative ideas for new and existing clients.
• Supporting the capture and shaping of consulting opportunities for clients, helping them re-imagine the future and stay ahead of the curve.
• Advocating the NHS Automation Consulting team through participation in industry forums, events and social media
• Living the consulting-led culture by embracing innovative, highly groundbreaking technologies that support new ways of working in a digital world.
• Providing outputs for weekly due diligence updates with the client.
• Understanding the risks, assumptions, and dependencies associated with the process.
• Work closely with development team to ensure requirements are mapped accurately and suitable for development.

What you'll bring:

• Experience using an automation and robotics tool such as UiPath, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere
• Previous experience in a business process analyst or consulting role
• Willingness to travel and attend meetings/workshops at internal or client sites.
• Ability to work in a team and/or be an effective individual contributor.
• Understand/exposed to a variety of software development approaches and methodologies including Agile and Waterfall

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you!

Employment Type:Full-time, Permanent
Location:Anywhere in the UK, with travel across UK
Security Clearance Level:DBS
Internal Recruiter:Emma W
Salary:Up to £40,000 DOE
Benefits:25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund.

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and efficiency. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.