Associate Director

4 weeks ago


United Kingdom Cambridge Credentials Full time

Our client's Programme and Major Capital Projects Advisory is a multi-disciplinary team of cross-sector experts in complex project and programme delivery, operating across government, healthcare, defence, water, energy, transport and financial services. They transform our clients’ delivery capability and partner with them to deliver faster, cheaper, greener and better.

They are looking for experienced experts in portfolio, project and/or programme management and controls who seek a fulfilling and rewarding long-term career in their team. Your experience to date could be from within any of our target sectors above. And, although they are primarily focussed on these sectors within the UK, they also recognise the opportunity of experience and insights from other countries and regions, especially the Middle East.

Ideally, your delivery experience would be gained from Infrastructure-related projects and programmes, but they will happily consider candidates with experience in other fields relevant to their work.

The position:

As an Associate Director, you will play a pivotal role in leading both the delivery of work on the ground and the development of new opportunities for the Firm, maintaining insights and perspectives on how the markets are changing and how their capabilities align. You will own many critical relationships and operate as a trusted advisor to senior clients, helping to shape solutions, inform decisions and drive implementation.

It is a highly accountable leadership role that requires you to wear many hats, but you’ll be well supported by the rest of the team.

Your day-to-day involves:

  • Leading complex and multifaceted consulting engagements whilst simultaneously managing broader client relationships across multiple accounts.
  • Inspiring your team; managing, coaching, mentoring and motivating your colleagues.
  • Fostering an inclusive, diverse and flexible environment where everyone can thrive.
  • Engaging at a senior level with our clients, becoming a trusted advisor.
  • Collaborating with other leaders to develop and continually refine the long-term strategy for our purposeful and sustainable growth.
  • Being a respected subject-matter expert and a team-shaper.
  • Able to positively influence the scope and direction of any engagement through cross-functional collaboration.
  • Developing a recognised profile in the external market.
  • Being responsible for all financial aspects of an engagement.
  • Understanding the Firm's broader suite of services and identifying opportunities to collaborate and design unique client solutions.
  • Most importantly, being a role model for the Firm and living their values every day.

Required experience:

  • A proven history of operating as an effective leader in a consulting firm in addition to senior project or programme management roles; with a minimum of 10 years' experience – primarily built around the delivery of major complex Projects/Programmes, transformational change; and/or
  • Proven experience in optimisation of the full suite of Project Controls (e.g. schedule, cost, risk) and a deep understanding of best in class processes and tooling, project controls system deployment and transformation or process optimisation, with the skillset and qualifications to support (i.e. Lean Six Sigma).

  • Proven experience of management and leadership of multi-disciplinary consulting teams of between 5-20 consultants.
  • Specialist Project, Programme, Portfolio management expertise, with proven delivery acumen and a passion for the future of the profession.
  • Ideally experience in one or more sectors across Central Government, Infrastructure, Transport, Aerospace, Defence, Industrial, Financial Services, Utilities or Manufacturing preferred.
  • Demonstrable experience of influencing senior-level stakeholders, having built and sustained key relationships.
  • Excellent commercial awareness with strong experience of owning and managing client accounts alongside contributions to significant bids and proposals.
  • The passion, resilience and energy to make a difference, both internally and externally.
  • A foundation of excellent academics and demonstrable career progression to date.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • A good spread of experience using different software/applications (e.g. Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, Primavera P6, Slack, Clarizen).
  • Relevant professional certification – e.g. APM ChPP/PPQ; MoP; MSP; PRINCE2.

Experience in some of the following areas will help you to stand out:

  • Delivering advisory services such as capital delivery transformations, organisational design, regulatory change, delivery efficiency and governance optimisation.
  • Working in partnership with clients to shape the strategic direction of their organisation and implementing the change with them.
  • Delivering targeted business process improvement(s) in relation to capital investment Portfolios and major Projects/Programmes.
  • Standing up programme governance.
  • Designing and enhancing Project, Programme or Portfolio controls.
  • Designing and leading transformation management offices (TMO) or project management offices (PMO).
  • Delivering quality assurance and monitoring.
  • Leading projects delivering quality assurance and monitoring.
  • Troubled Project/Programme reviews and implementing recovery plans.
  • Delivering advisory services such as Project Controls optimisations, Project Controls toolset implementations, governance optimisation, portfolio prioritisation.
  • Delivering targeted business process improvement(s) in relation to capital investment Portfolios and major Projects/Programmes.
  • Implementation of Earned Value Management in accordance with relevant national standards.

Successful applicants will be contacted to discuss further within 48 hours.

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