P3M Consultant - Public Sector

Company Description

About us

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 diverse teams of 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.

Job Description

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 local team covers the full spectrum of delivery expertise. Our experience ranges from supporting highly complex business transformations, to leading on change management activities, developing organisation strategies and planning digital led change. Our team primarily operates across the public sector for clients in Central & local Government, Health and Defence & Security. We are able to provide deep sector insight and bring fresh perspectives to delivery challenges.

Some example of our exciting assignments include:

• Supporting the Education sector redefine and optimise their shared services offering to customers, using digital technology to replace manual, paper processing
• Designing and delivering a new national operating model within the police and justice sector to improve service delivery for citizens and victims of crime
• Helping a global pharmaceutical company establish the governance and corporate structures to rapidly expand local production
• Working closely with the Health Service to transform how HR & payroll is delivered for over 100,000 staff members
• Managing key transformation programmes in the NHS to improve patient care and sustainability.

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
• An aptitude for delivering creative and ingenious solutions

The ideal candidate will also have experience working with Public Service clients, and be from a consulting background, or heavily involved in project planning and delivery within the public sector. You will have approximately 3-7 years experience, and be ambitious to both drive local growth and your own career progression.

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 

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. 

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here. 

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 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 beliefs, veteran status, or by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.