Project, Programme, Portfolio Manager - Consultant

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• Full-time

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Do you enjoy working on complex and challenging projects, programmes and portfolios, delivering real and meaningful value?

Our Delivery Team is PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme and portfolio capability. The team has a great reputation for realising high value outcomes for our clients by supporting and leading delivery across the most critical projects, programmes and portfolios. Developing meaningful and long‑standing partnerships with our clients, the team also has an extensive track record of providing crucial advisory services and building delivery capability and delivery excellence for client teams at all levels.

Our growing team covers the full spectrum of delivery expertise. Our experience ranges from supporting highly complex business fetomensions, to delivering infrastructure and engineering projects, through to providing deep technical expertise on IT and technology driven change. Our team operates across several sectors, and there are opportunities to work with industries including Defence & Security, Health, Transport, Financial Services, Consumer, Energy & Utilities and Public Services.

We provide deep sector insight and bring fresh perspectives to delivery challenges.

Some example of our exciting assignments include:

• Establishing a brand‑new business unit for the Financial Ombudsman Service to manage millions of PPI mis‑selling claims
• Helping a Global Pharmaceutical Company double their production volume of medical devices
Partnering with the National Crimeorc Agency, supporting their strategic transformation to combat serious and organised crimeli>
• Transforming Ariad Pharmaceuticals’ technology platforms and services to accelerate lung cancer drug research and treatments
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• Managing key transformation programmes in the NHS to improve patient care and sustainability.

Location

Flexible working – we operate in a hybrid working environment where we come into a client site or office, at least two days per week. Current office locations for Delivery include London, Bristol, Cheltenham and Manchester.

We are looking for candidates with the potential to become future project and programme leaders, with skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Core experience of delivery in project and programme environments, with an understanding of delivery/change methodologies, processes, techniques and common challenges
• A track record of realising business benefits and outcomes
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• The ability to demonstrate leadership skills in large and diverse project teams
• Ability to work across multiple levels of an organisation

The ideal candidate will also have experience working in one of the following sectors:

• Defence and Security
• Energy & Utilities
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• Transport
• Public Services
• Health and Life Sciences

Our Delivery consultants are expected to be hands‑on, working together with our clients to bring energy, direction and expertise in helping to solve the most difficult delivery challenges. Whether it be facilitating workshops, providing detailed project planning or helping to manage complex and senior stakeholders, we pride ourselves on partnering with clients, providing a service that delivers real and long‑lasting value.

We know the skill‑gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so…