Project, Programme, Portfolio Manager - Consultant

PA Consulting Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A prestigious consulting firm in the UK is looking for project management professionals to join their Delivery Team. Candidates should have a strong background in managing projects and programmes, demonstrating leadership in dynamic environments. This role offers opportunities in various sectors such as defence, energy, and public services, all within a hybrid working model where employees collaborate with clients on site and from home. Comprehensive benefits and a commitment to employee well-being are also part of the package.

Benefits

Health and lifestyle benefits

25 days annual leave plus extra

Generous pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Tax-efficient benefits

Qualifications

• Strong core experience in project and programme delivery.
• Demonstrated leadership in large and diverse project teams.
• Ability to work across multiple organisational levels.

Responsibilities

• Manage and deliver project and programme objectives.
• Support complex business transformations.
• Facilitate client workshops and detailed project planning.

Skills

Delivery in project and programme environments

Leadership skills in diverse project teams

Understanding of delivery/change methodologies

Realising business benefits

Job description

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 transformations, 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 Crime Agency, supporting their strategic transformation to combat serious and organised crime
• Transforming Ariad Pharmaceuticals’ technology platforms and services to accelerate lung cancer drug research and treatments
• 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.

Qualifications

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
• 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
• 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 please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application.

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well‑being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance‑based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [e-mail].