Methods

About Methods

Methods is a British IT services consultancy with more than £100M in revenue, owned since early 2022 by the Alten Group (about 57,000 engineering and IT staff), and most of what its sellers win is central government work bought through procurement frameworks and open tenders, with a private sector book in energy, financial services and insurance it is still building. The selling runs through business managers and directors backed by a bid team, plus pre-sales consultants in its Capabilities practice who shape the solution and later assure its delivery. The hunter seat on the board is a London sales development manager who opens new strategic accounts, expands work inside existing clients and answers for revenue and margin across the portfolio, with at least four years in industry, services or IT asked for; beside it a London senior bid manager runs tender responses from kick-off to submission and coaches junior bid writers. The sales-titled postings include one ServiceNow pre-sales and assurance consultant role, posted in London, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Sheffield, who qualifies ServiceNow opportunities, leads discovery workshops, writes solution designs and estimates for bids and then reviews the programme once it is won. Others are delivery engineers and architects filed under sales or capabilities (an SC-cleared OpenShift platform engineer for a defence client, posted in Bristol and Milton Keynes, an M365 messaging architect and a principal data solution architect in London), and the sales development and bid postings require security clearance, starting with the Baseline Personnel Security Standard.