Adviser

🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 24 August 2025
LOCATION
Not specified
TYPE
Other
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Consulting
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion

SKILLS

Business Advice Consultancy Business Diagnostics Action Plan Development Communication Customer Service

FULL DESCRIPTION

Summary

The Adviser Role plays a critical role, responsible for helping businesses to do more and go further by providing advice across a range of business themes.

Key Responsibilities/Duties

  • Always uphold the ART of UMi in all that you do.
  • When you see an opportunity to do so, use your skill, experience, and personal characteristics to support projects and activities outside of your core role.
  • Be an advocate of UMi through active involvement in promotional and marketing activity and through broader networking and introductions.
  • Uphold our commitment to people, planet and profit by consistently operating to UMi’s policies, standards and ethics.
  • Understanding of a business and how finance fits with their growth plans, to understand the financial health, performance and potential of a business or project.
  • Contribute to the delivery of public projects as required.
  • The opportunity to undertake project management as required.
  • Undertake business assessments, following UMi diagnostics across a range of business themes, e.g. finance, digital, productivity, supply chain, to develop action plans with the business and to develop projects to help UMi make decisions.
  • Undertake assessments of a business’ projects to inform decision making.
  • Clear communication across all forms of communication and able to produce clear written reports and actions plans for clients.

Core Requirements/Qualifications/Skills

  • Have a relevant qualification (SFEDI Level 7) or equivalent demonstrable experience in business advice or consultancy.
  • A proven understanding of business, business themes and the challenges facing businesses who want to go further.
  • Experience of using diagnostics and agreeing action plans with businesses.
  • Be a great communicator verbally and in written form, able to understand and distil complex issues to present them simply.
  • Experience of managing a case load of business clients.
  • Experience of delivering exemplary customer service.

YOUR ROLE

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ADViSER

Salary Group Adviser

Why your role is The Adviser Role plays a critical role, responsible for helping businesses to do more and go further by providing advice across a range of business themes.

MAiN RESPONSiBiLiTiES AND KPi’S

  • Always uphold the ART of UMi in all that you do.
  • When you see an opportunity to do so, use your skill, experience, and personal characteristics to support projects and activities outside of your core role.
  • Be an advocate of UMi through active involvement in promotional and marketing activity and through broader networking and introductions.
  • Uphold our commitment to people, planet and profit by consistently operating to UMi’s policies, standards and ethics.
  • Understanding of a business and how finance fits with their growth plans, to understand the financial health, performance and potential of a business or project.
  • Contribute to the delivery of public projects as required.
  • The opportunity to undertake project management as required.
  • Undertake business assessments, following UMi diagnostics across a range of business themes, e.g. finance, digital, productivity, supply chain, to develop action plans with the business and to develop projects to help UMi make decisions.
  • Undertake assessments of a business’ projects to inform decision making.
  • Clear communication across all forms of communication and able to produce clear written reports and actions plans for clients.

THE ART OF UMi

Our values and beliefs

  • Adventurous – our adventures take us far and wide – they’re tough and exciting but we are fearless and open-minded about where they might lead.
  • Responsible – we share a collective responsibility to each other, respect the world we live in, and we keep our promises.
  • Togetherness - We can achieve more together than we can apart, and we know that businesses are more than just bricks and mortar or numbers on a spreadsheet – they’re powered by people.

YOUR ROLE WiTHiN UMi

  • Team: Public Sector Services
  • Your manager: Operations Manager – Advice
  • Reports: None

THE ESSENTiAL THiNGS YOU NEED

  • Have a relevant qualification (SFEDI Level 7) or equivalent demonstrable experience in business advice or consultancy.
  • A proven understanding of business, business themes and the challenges facing businesses who want to go further.
  • Experience of using diagnostics and agreeing action plans with businesses.
  • Be a great communicator verbally and in written form, able to understand and distil complex issues to present them simply.
  • Experience of managing a case load of business clients.
  • Experience of delivering exemplary customer service.

THE THiNGS THAT ARE NiCE TO HAVE

  • Knowledge, experience, or qualifications in more focused/groups of specific business themes, for example general digital adoption by businesses, general sales and marketing, general business finance.
  • Experience of public funding rules.
  • Experience of UK Subsidy Control rules.
  • Experience of using Microsoft Dynamics 365.
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