Project Programme Portfolio Manager - Consultant

4w4 weeks ago

PA Consulting

London, GB · Full-time · £85,000 – £130,000

About this role

PA's Delivery Team is the Centre of Excellence for project, programme and portfolio capability. The team has a great reputation for realising high value outcomes by supporting and leading delivery across critical projects, programmes and portfolios. We develop meaningful partnerships with clients while providing advisory services.

Our growing team covers the full spectrum of delivery expertise, from complex business transformations to infrastructure projects and IT-driven change. We bring deep sector insight and fresh perspectives to delivery challenges. Exciting assignments include transforming banks to Scaled Agile and leading agile operating model implementations.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists with expertise in financial services. Teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics and Netherlands. PA combines innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to create opportunity from complexity.

We seek candidates with potential to become future leaders, going beyond process experts to demonstrate technical SME specialisms. Candidates evidence close content knowledge in financial sub-sectors like payments, insurance or banking. Together, we achieve enduring results and build delivery excellence at all levels.

Requirements

SME specialism in Payments and Critical Financial Infrastructure, General insurance and London/Lloyds Markets, Life & Pensions, Retail Corporate & Commercial Banking, Wealth and Asset Management, Financial Market Regulation and Compliance, or Risk areas like Cyber security and Operational Resilience
Core experience of delivery in project and programme environments with understanding of methodologies, processes and challenges
Track record of realising business benefits and outcomes
Demonstrate leadership skills in large and diverse project teams
Ability to work across multiple levels of an organisation
Aptitude for delivering creative and ingenious solutions
Potential to become future leaders within the firm

Responsibilities

Support and lead delivery across the most critical projects, programmes and portfolios
Provide advisory services and build delivery capability for client teams
Transform delivery organisations from traditional ways to Scaled Agile
Drive assurance and digital modernisation for cyber risk and insurance firms
Implement agile operating models to enhance competitiveness and digital capabilities
Lead outsourcing of payments capability to third-party SaaS cloud services
Deliver major critical national infrastructure programmes