Agile Transformation Senior/Principal Consultant

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

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Netherlands, and Nordics.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job description

Do you crave collaboration and love creating insights that help organizations improve their agility in response to a rapidly changing market? Would you like to be part of an inspiring global team that leads the way in Agile consulting?

At PA Consulting, we help the largest and most complex organizations on one end of the spectrum to start-ups wanting to scale at pace at the other. We are the leading consultancy and thought leaders in organizational agility. As such, we have unrivalled experience, collateral, and insight. We have accelerated drug development, helped transform the world to green energy, and reimagined visas and immigration. We have taken business agility to shipping companies and improved manufacturing quality whilst reducing time to market.

We are now looking for an exceptional Agile Transformation expert, who have sold and helped organizations systemically improve their ability to deliver change at the pace they need to succeed. You should be highly experienced in operating model design, training and coaching teams to blend the right Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, DevOps and Kanban practices to address an organizations objectives.

By collaborating with your colleagues and providing leadership and coaching within Agile principles, you will manage some of our most exciting projects across our portfolio. It’s your chance to be part of our vision; to build the best Agile consultancy in the world. You will have the opportunity to: 

• Design best-in-class solutions that set us apart from our competition
• Take early opportunities during the sales lifecycle and perform a variety of roles across the whole change lifecycle  
• Provide advisory, coaching and training that will ensure our clients achieve their goals
• Be part of an exceptionally vibrant Agile community.

Our Agile capability will help you to drive your career forward, in all aspects of agility, as it applies to organisations large and small.  With your flexibility we can help you grow alongside our diverse team of experts.

Qualifications

Personal and professional qualities:

• Solid and relevant consulting experience
• Strong operational experience working Agile
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with top-level stakeholders
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Experience in working on a highly strategic level managing complex assignments and bridging large IT programs
• Stakeholder management skills 
• A desire to develop PA’s internal Agile Capability as well as working with our clients.

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.

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:

Benefits:

• 35 holidays per year (including statutory days)
• opportunity to buy additional flex holidays (maximum of 7)
• performance bonus
• pension plan (with fixed percentage personal contribution)
• possibility to buy shares in PA
• car / car allowance

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 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.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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