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United Kingdom · Internal Consulting · Senior (5-8 years)

Senior Solutions Consultant

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandSenior (5-8 years)
  • Direct reportsNo direct reports
  • Reports toManager, Internal Solutions & Transformation
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Senior Internal Consultant · Business Transformation Lead · Solutions Lead (Internal Consulting)

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1What this role really is

As a Senior Solutions Consultant, you're the person who takes a messy business problem and turns it into a clear, actionable plan. You'll lead small-to-medium sized projects from start to finish, working closely with various business units to figure out what's really going on and how we can make things better. It's less about telling people what to do and more about guiding them to the right answers and helping them get there. You'll be the bridge between strategic thinking and practical implementation, making sure our solutions actually stick.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Lucidchart / Microsoft VisioAdvanced

Designing complex, multi-departmental 'As-Is' and 'To-Be' process maps, value stream maps, and organisational charts for your projects.

Microsoft Excel (Power Query, Power Pivot, VBA)Expert

Building intricate financial and operational models, automating data cleaning and reporting with Power Query, and creating advanced dashboards. You'll be teaching others these skills.

Asana / Monday.com / JiraAdvanced

Owning and managing complex project plans for multiple workstreams, configuring project boards, automating workflows, and creating team dashboards to track progress.

Tableau / Power BIAdvanced

Designing and building compelling, interactive dashboards to communicate project findings and solution benefits to senior stakeholders. You'll be writing basic DAX or creating calculated fields.

Confluence / Notion / MS TeamsAdvanced

Architecting the knowledge base for your major projects or programmes, establishing best practices for documentation, and leading team collaboration efforts.

SAP S/4HANA / Oracle NetSuite (or similar ERP)Working Knowledge

Extracting and interpreting key data from our core enterprise systems to support your analysis and understanding the implications of proposed solutions on these platforms.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Project Scope ChangesEscalate immediately to supervisor for review and approval.Propose changes to Manager, providing impact analysis; await approval before proceeding.Analyse impact, discuss with Executive Sponsor and Manager. Can implement minor adjustments with immediate notification; major changes require formal approval.
Methodology SelectionFollow prescribed methodology; consult supervisor for any deviations.Choose appropriate methodology for routine problems; consult Manager for novel situations.Select and adapt methodologies for complex problems. Justify choice to Manager and team; can define new approaches within established frameworks.
Resource Allocation (within project)No authority; assigned tasks and resources.Allocate personal time and prioritise tasks within your workstream; flag resource constraints to Manager.Recommend allocation of junior team members' time on your projects. Can approve minor project expenses up to £10K; larger amounts require Manager consultation.
Client Communication StrategyDraft communications for supervisor review; supervisor sends or approves.Draft and send routine project updates; consult Manager for sensitive communications.Define and execute communication strategy for your projects. Lead stakeholder meetings and present findings, with Manager awareness for critical updates.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Project Delivery Rate
The percentage of your managed projects that actually finish on time and within the agreed budget.
Target · 90% or higher

You led three projects last quarter. Two finished exactly as planned, one went slightly over budget by 5% due to an unforeseen scope change. That's a 66% on-time/on-budget rate, so we'd discuss why that one slipped.

Business Case Realisation Variance
How close the actual benefits (cost savings, revenue uplift) of your implemented solutions are to the original business case you designed, typically 12 months after go-live.
Target · Within ±15% variance

Your business case projected £500K in annual savings. A year later, the actual savings are £440K. That's an 12% variance, which is well within our target and shows your initial projections were solid.

Solution Adoption Rate
The percentage of targeted users or teams who are actively using the new process or system you helped implement, measured against the original plan.
Target · 85% or higher

You designed a new expense reporting process for 200 staff. After 3 months, 180 are using it correctly. That's 90% adoption, showing your change management efforts paid off.

Mentee Development & Promotion
The number of junior team members you've formally mentored who either get promoted or receive a top-tier performance rating.
Target · At least one mentee per 18 months

You've been mentoring Sarah for 15 months. She just got promoted to Solutions Consultant, largely thanks to your guidance on her project management skills. That's a clear win for your leadership.

Stakeholder Satisfaction & Trust
How happy our internal clients are with your work, your approach, and your recommendations. It's about being seen as a trusted advisor, not just a project manager.
  • You'll know you're doing well when business leaders proactively invite you to their strategic planning meetings, seek your opinion on new initiatives before they're formalised, and refer you to their peers. Informal feedback, repeat engagements, and positive comments in 360-degree reviews are key indicators.
Quality of Strategic Recommendations
Are your solutions truly addressing the root cause? Are they practical, well-researched, and aligned with our company's broader goals? It's about the depth and insight in your proposals.
  • Look for recommendations that are adopted without significant rework, are praised for their clarity and logic, and genuinely move the business forward. Your ability to articulate complex ideas simply, backed by solid data, will be evident in how quickly your proposals gain traction and executive approval.
Knowledge Sharing & Best Practice Contribution
How well you capture and share what you've learned from your projects, helping the wider team avoid reinventing the wheel and improving our overall consulting toolkit.
  • This looks like regularly updating our internal knowledge base with project templates, lessons learned, and new methodologies. It's also about actively participating in team workshops, presenting case studies, and contributing to the development of our internal consulting standards.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Solving Complex Puzzles

You love diving into a tangled business problem, dissecting it, and finding the elegant solution. The messier the data, the more ambiguous the situation, the more you're in your element. It's about the satisfaction of bringing clarity to chaos.

Spending a Friday afternoon mapping out a convoluted supply chain process, identifying 3 key bottlenecks, and sketching out a 'To-Be' state that shaves off two days from lead time. That's your idea of a good time.

Driving Tangible Impact

You're not just about producing reports; you want to see your recommendations actually get implemented and make a difference. The idea of your work sitting on a shelf is your worst nightmare. You're driven by seeing real change in the organisation.

The project you led to optimise our customer onboarding process resulted in a 20% reduction in new customer churn. Seeing those numbers, and hearing positive feedback from the Sales team, is what gets you up in the morning.

Continuous Learning & Growth

Every new project is a chance to learn about a different part of the business, a new industry trend, or a new problem-solving technique. You thrive on intellectual challenge and the opportunity to constantly expand your knowledge and skill set.

You're constantly reading up on new change management methodologies or diving into a new data visualisation tool, not because you have to, but because you're genuinely curious about how they could improve your work and our team's capabilities.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Internal' Stigma: Constantly having to prove our value against the lingering perception that external consultants are somehow inherently better or more objective, even when our work is superior.
  • Recommendation without Authority: You'll deliver brilliant, data-backed solutions, then watch a business unit fumble the execution, and yet you'll still share some of the blame for the poor results. It's frustrating when you can't directly control the outcome.
  • Political Minefields: Getting caught in the crossfire between two executives with competing agendas. Any recommendation you make might alienate someone powerful, and navigating that is exhausting.
  • The 'Pet Project' Mandate: Being assigned to justify an executive's pre-conceived idea, forcing you to find data to support a conclusion rather than objectively finding the best solution. It feels like you're working backwards.
  • Analysis Paralysis: When stakeholders constantly ask for 'one more data point' or 'just another quick review,' delaying decisions and preventing the project from moving forward. It feels like death by a thousand papercuts.
  • Shelf-ware: The absolute worst feeling is when your carefully crafted final report, full of brilliant insights, ends up sitting on a shelf, gathering dust, because the business unit moved on or lost interest.
What this role does not give you
  • A predictable, routine work schedule – expect urgent requests and shifting priorities.
  • Direct line management authority over the teams you're consulting for.
  • A guarantee that every single one of your recommendations will be implemented.
  • A quiet, solitary work environment; you'll be interacting with people constantly.

6Who you work with

Your work directly influences the operational efficiency and strategic direction of specific business functions. Get it right, and you'll help teams save millions, streamline processes, and adopt new ways of working. Get it wrong, and we risk wasted effort, missed opportunities, and a loss of trust in our internal consulting capability.

Inside the business
  • Business Unit Directors (e.g., Head of Operations, Marketing Director)
  • Programme Managers (for larger initiatives your projects feed into)
  • Finance Business Partners (to validate your business cases)
  • IT Leadership (when solutions involve technology changes)
  • Junior Solutions Analysts & Consultants (your mentees)
Outside the business
  • Selected vendors or technology partners (when evaluating new tools)
  • Industry peer groups (for benchmarking best practices)

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven ability to independently manage workstreams and deliver high-quality analytical outputs.
  • Demonstrable experience in conducting stakeholder interviews and gathering requirements effectively.
  • Strong foundational skills in data analysis and presentation, including intermediate Excel proficiency.
  • Experience contributing to business process mapping and documentation.
  • A track record of identifying business problems and proposing initial solutions.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Strategic Process Automation (RPA/No-Code)

Many of the 'To-Be' processes you design will involve automation. Understanding how to identify opportunities for Robotic Process Automation (RPA) or no-code solutions (e.g., Power Automate) will be crucial for creating truly efficient future states.

Process Mining for Automation Opportunities · RPA Feasibility & ROI Assessment · No-Code/Low-Code Platform Capabilities (e.g., Micr · Citizen Developer Enablement & Governance

  • This week: Read a few case studies on successful RPA implementations in mid-sized companies.
  • This month: Explore a no-code automation tool like Microsoft Power Automate. Try to automate a simple personal or team task.
  • Month 2: Identify one process in a current project that could be partially automated. Map out the 'To-Be' with automation in mind.
  • Month 3: Present your findings on automation potential to your Manager, highlighting potential time savings or efficiency gains.

Quick win: Look for repetitive, rule-based tasks in your own work or your team's. Could a simple Power Automate flow handle it? Give it a go.

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Regularly attending industry webinars and conferences on management consulting, business transformation, or specific industry trends.
  • Joining relevant professional bodies (e.g., Management Consultancies Association) for networking and continuous learning.
  • Actively seeking out opportunities to mentor junior colleagues and lead internal training sessions.
  • Taking online courses in advanced data visualisation, financial modelling, or emerging technologies like AI/ML applications in business.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, this is already happening, not just future. Competitors are using tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take 2 hours. Consultants who figure this out will outproduce their peers significantly. It's about working smarter, not harder.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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Built for Senior Solutions Consultant

2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. The consultancy processChartered Management Institute · covers 6 of 10 standardsLevel 5
  2. Data AnalyticsPearson Education Ltd · covers 2 of 10 standardsLevel 5
These are the real units behind this job, in the order they rank for it. Nothing here is marked done, because this plan has not been started by anyone yet. Yours would fill in as you go.

The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration

Honestly, this is already happening, not just future. Competitors are using tools like ChatGPT and Claude to draft reports in 10 minutes that used to take 2 hours. Consultants who figure this out will outproduce their peers significantly. It's about working smarter, not harder.

  • Context Windows & Token Limits
  • Temperature Settings for Different Tasks
  • RAG Architectures for Proprietary Data
  • Output Validation & Hallucination Detection
  • Prompt Chaining for Complex Analysis

Advanced Data Storytelling & Visualisation

With more data available and AI helping with the analysis, the real value shifts to how effectively you can translate complex insights into compelling narratives that drive action. It's not just about showing numbers, but telling a story with them.

  • Narrative Structure for Data
  • Cognitive Load Theory in Visualisation
  • Ethical Data Representation & Avoiding Misleading
  • Interactive Visualisation Design for Exploration
  • Tailoring Visuals to Audience Seniority & Role

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Business Case Development
  • Change Management (ADKAR/Kotter)
  • Operating Model Design
  • Root Cause Analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa)
  • Stakeholder Analysis & Management
  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    From Solutions Consultant (L2)

    2-3 years as an L2

    Skills to master

    • Independently leading smaller workstreams, taking full ownership of deliverables, beginning to identify root causes, and demonstrating strong stakeholder communication skills.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivering assigned workstreams on time and to a high standard.
    • Proactively identifying issues and proposing solutions without constant supervision.
    • Receiving positive feedback from project managers and mid-level stakeholders.
    • Demonstrating a solid grasp of core consulting methodologies and tools.
  2. 2

    From External Consulting (Junior/Associate Consultant)

    3-5 years in external consulting

    Skills to master

    • Adapting to an internal client environment, understanding internal politics, building long-term relationships, and translating external best practices into internal realities.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Strong foundational consulting toolkit (problem-solving, analysis, presentation).
    • Experience across multiple industries or functional areas.
    • Ability to quickly understand and navigate a new organisational culture.
    • Demonstrated ability to work autonomously on complex tasks.
  3. 3

    From Senior Business Analyst / Project Lead

    5-7 years in a business analyst or project lead role

    Skills to master

    • Developing strategic recommendations, building robust business cases, leading change management efforts, and managing senior stakeholders outside of a project delivery context.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven track record of leading significant projects or initiatives.
    • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, often with a deep domain expertise.
    • Experience presenting to and influencing senior management.
    • A desire to move beyond just 'doing' to 'advising' and 'leading change'.

11Where this role leads

The long view:Your journey as a Senior Solutions Consultant is just one step on a path that can lead to significant impact, leadership, and continuous learning. We're here to support your growth, wherever that takes you.

Pay & demand

Pay and demand for this role will appear here, each figure traced to a named authoritative source (e.g. the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings, under the Open Government Licence). We don’t show numbers we can’t attribute.

The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Senior Solutions Consultant is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

Start free and meet yours

13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

The consultancy processLevel 5

Applied to your work in Senior Solutions Consultant

By completing this unit, learners will understand how to develop a common understanding of problems/opportunities with consultancy clients, agree solutions, plan and support implementation, and develop the client's capacity and competence.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Senior Solutions Consultant

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Project Delivery RateThe percentage of your managed projects that actually finish on time and within the agreed budget.You led three projects last quarter. Two finished exactly as planned, one went slightly over budget by 5% due to an unforeseen scope change. That's a 66% on-time/on-budget rate, so we'd discuss why that one slipped.90% or higher
  • Business Case Realisation VarianceHow close the actual benefits (cost savings, revenue uplift) of your implemented solutions are to the original business case you designed, typically 12 months after go-live.Your business case projected £500K in annual savings. A year later, the actual savings are £440K. That's an 12% variance, which is well within our target and shows your initial projections were solid.Within ±15% variance
  • Solution Adoption RateThe percentage of targeted users or teams who are actively using the new process or system you helped implement, measured against the original plan.You designed a new expense reporting process for 200 staff. After 3 months, 180 are using it correctly. That's 90% adoption, showing your change management efforts paid off.85% or higher
  • Mentee Development & PromotionThe number of junior team members you've formally mentored who either get promoted or receive a top-tier performance rating.You've been mentoring Sarah for 15 months. She just got promoted to Solutions Consultant, largely thanks to your guidance on her project management skills. That's a clear win for your leadership.At least one mentee per 18 months
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Senior Solutions Consultant to Lead Solutions Architect (L4), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Lead Solutions Architect (L4)→ your design
Where this takes you

Your journey as a Senior Solutions Consultant is just one step on a path that can lead to significant impact, leadership, and continuous learning. We're here to support your growth, wherever that takes you.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Senior Solutions Consultant
  • Business Case Development
  • Change Management (ADKAR/Kotter)
  • Operating Model Design
  • Root Cause Analysis (5 Whys, Fishbone/Ishikawa)
  • Stakeholder Analysis & Management
  • Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Senior Solutions Consultant is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Lead Solutions Architect (L4)

    3-5 years in this Senior Solutions Consultant role

    You'll move from leading individual projects to managing complex, cross-functional programmes. This means designing the overall problem-solving approach for larger initiatives and architecting more comprehensive, enterprise-wide solutions.

    • Enterprise Architecture Principles: Understanding how solutions fit into the broader tech and process landscape.
    • Vendor Management: Evaluating and selecting strategic partners for large-scale implementations.
    • Budget Management: Taking accountability for significant project budgets (e.g., £50K-£500K).
    • Advanced Risk Management: Identifying and mitigating risks across complex programmes.

  2. Manager, Internal Solutions & Transformation (L5)

    4-6 years in this Senior Solutions Consultant role

    This path is about moving into formal people management and owning the relationship with a specific business unit or functional area. You'll manage a team of consultants and their project portfolio for that area.

    • P&L Management (functional): Owning a budget of £500K-£2M for your consulting function.
    • Organisational Design & Restructuring: Leading efforts to reshape teams and departments.
    • Strategic Planning: Contributing to the overall strategy of the Internal Consulting department.
    • Vendor Relationship Management: Building and maintaining relationships with key external partners.
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Imagine having more time for deep analysis, strategic thinking, and genuine client engagement, instead of getting bogged down in repetitive tasks. That's the reality with AI in internal consulting.

For a Senior Solutions Consultant, AI isn't about replacing your brain; it's about giving you a seriously powerful assistant. It'll handle the grunt work, leaving you free to focus on the complex problem-solving and influencing that truly makes a difference. Here's how it'll change your day-to-day.

First-Draft Synthesis

Feed dozens of stakeholder interview transcripts, survey responses, and internal documents into an AI tool. It'll instantly identify key themes, pain points, and even pull out direct quotes, giving you a first-draft synthesis that used to take days. You'll spend your time validating and refining, not manually sifting.

Process Mapping Accelerator

Got a bunch of meeting recordings or procedural documents? Use an AI tool to generate a first-draft 'As-Is' process map in Lucidchart or Visio format. It's not perfect, but it's 80% there, letting you focus on the critical 20% of validation and 'To-Be' design with the business unit.

Business Case Research

Need to build a robust business case? Task an AI assistant to quickly research and summarise industry benchmarks, competitor case studies, and potential vendor solutions for a specific problem. It'll provide the foundational data you need, saving you hours of digging through reports and websites.

Stakeholder Comms Generator

Drafting project update emails, executive summary slides, or change management communications can be a time sink. Use AI to generate tailored drafts for different audiences – technical teams, senior leadership, affected employees – ensuring consistent messaging and a professional tone, fast.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Senior Solutions Consultant?

Common routes in include From Solutions Consultant (L2) (2-3 years as an L2), From External Consulting (Junior/Associate Consultant) (3-5 years in external consulting) and From Senior Business Analyst / Project Lead (5-7 years in a business analyst or project lead role). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Senior Solutions Consultant progress to?

This role can lead on to Lead Solutions Architect (L4) (3-5 years in this Senior Solutions Consultant role) and Manager, Internal Solutions & Transformation (L5) (4-6 years in this Senior Solutions Consultant role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Senior Solutions Consultant in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Senior Solutions Consultant?

Increasingly, Prompt Engineering & LLM Integration and Advanced Data Storytelling & Visualisation. These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Senior Solutions Consultant, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 10 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Senior Solutions Consultant: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Internal Consulting

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll gain here are highly transferable. Many of our former consultants have moved into external consulting, programme management, operational leadership roles, or even started their own businesses. The structured problem-solving and influencing skills are valuable everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

Work out what you actually want from work first, then come back and see which roles fit it. Takes about ten minutes.

This role profile is © 2026Growth Engineering Technologies Ltd. Built from UK occupational standards and regulated qualification data, and written for Zavmo.

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