Practice Manager - Consultancy

What you'll do

• Lead and develop our Network & Security Consultancy practice, setting clear direction and priorities. Build, develop and retain a high-performing community of consultants, architects and specialists. Shape workforce plans, recruitment, skills development, certifications and succession planning. Support major customer opportunities, bids and strategic conversations alongside sales and presales teams. Provide senior oversight and guidance across complex or high-risk customer engagements. Take responsibility for practice performance, including revenue, margin, utilisation, forecasting and investment. Develop consultancy services that respond to customer needs and market trends. Build strong relationships with key technology partners and vendors. Drive consistent standards across technical governance, architecture and delivery. Create a collaborative culture focused on development, technical excellence and customer outcomes. What you'll need Leadership experience within Network & Security, IT Consultancy, Professional Services or a similar technology environment. Experience managing and developing technical consultants, architects or specialist teams. A good understanding of enterprise networking and cybersecurity technologies and market trends. Strong commercial awareness, ideally with experience across revenue, margin, budgets or utilisation. Experience supporting customer opportunities, bids, proposals or strategic engagements. Strong people leadership skills, including recruitment, development and workforce planning. Experience overseeing complex technology projects and managing delivery risk. The confidence to engage with senior customers, internal stakeholders and technology partners. Strong communication, relationship-building and decision-making skills. A collaborative leadership style with a focus on developing people and growing capability. Knowledge across areas such as enterprise networking, SD-WAN, SASE/SSE, firewalls, cloud security, identity, Zero Trust and cyber defence would be beneficial. Experience with vendors such as Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Zscaler, Netskope, CyberArk or Microsoft would also be an advantage, but we wouldn’t expect you to be an expert across every technology. If you’re looking for a senior leadership opportunity where you can combine people development, technology, commercial responsibility and customer engagement while shaping the future of a Network & Security consultancy practice, we’d love to hear from you.