Digital Delivery Lead
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. We are guided by our client work and needs; however, you have autonomy to manage your time and diary to suit your work/life balance.
Job description
Are you ready to steer innovation, drive digital transformation, and lead a dynamic team to success in the fast-paced world of digital delivery?
Our Digital team are looking for an exceptional Delivery Lead.
At PA Consulting Group we help some of the largest and most complex organisations from across the globe to adapt and excel by adopting digital thinking and ways of working. To us, Digital Delivery is much more than a methodology, it’s the key to building the right leadership, cultural and organisational structure. Our business is made up of some of the world’s smartest Digital practitioners.
Digital Delivery Leads use their ‘head, heart and hand’ skills to drive the evolution of delivery practices and ensure excellence in every aspect of our delivery to clients – from strategy to shipping. You will lead by doing, mentor with generosity and simplify the complex. You will be responsible for consulting to clients and setting up and running projects and programmes to deliver digital transformation, as part of a highly skilled cross functional team. You’ll be adept at delivering complex digital products and services, breaking down barriers for your team, planning at a high-level and getting into the detail to make things happen as needed.
You will develop strategic, long-term relationships with clients, developing your role as a trusted advisor. You will formulate and articulate delivery strategies and workable, tactical plans. You will ensure our delivery solutions are robust, risk managed and commercially strong; and in some cases you will act as overall Assignment Manager for a client engagement.
You will be core to decisions that build high performing teams, where people are excited about the work they are undertaking. This means you are not set in one process or way of thinking but use exactly the right skills to solve our client challenges, though you will be a highly-experienced and proficient Agile delivery practitioner. You will spend 85% of your time in the work and 15% of your time on new business, capability priorities, mentoring and supporting others, including line management.
You'll:
Have a strategic understanding of PA’s goals, purpose and vision; and why clients and employees come to PA
Demonstrate understanding of and promote best practice of the PA values and ways of working
Keep up to date with opportunities issues and trends, and have a point of view, sharing your knowledge generously
Play an active part in new business, coaching the team on possible and recommended approaches; including setting direction for delivery, pitching to present ideas, recommendations and estimates and being heavily involved in developing written responses
Help evolve and codify our Delivery practice, deliver projects using the appropriate methodology, learning and iterating frequently, and coaching others to do so
Set the bar/example of what great Delivery Management looks like, ensuring quality and attention to detail is embedded throughout our work
Actively participating in the wider Delivery Management Capability, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge and bringing in best practice
Qualifications
As a Digital Delivery Lead, you will:
Lead and formulate delivery strategies, and be a delivery expert the team can draw on to determine the most appropriate approaches and methodologies
Clearly communicate delivery direction to others and be ‘in the work’ yourself
Have direct line management responsibilities; coach, mentor and train; organise and run interviews, onboarding activities, 1-2-1’s, performance and development plans
Be leading planning and kick off of projects and programmes of work, and collaborating closely with the team to keep focus on working in a rational sequence following an agreed approach, using appropriate methodologies and techniques
Analyse and evaluate pros and cons and identify risks to make decisions that take account of the wider context of a project or relationship and identify the correct point for escalation and action. Make considered recommendations to appropriate escalation points
Demonstrable experience of running Agile delivery projects in this domain
Demonstrable commercial acumen, with excellent written and numerical skills. You will be highly-experienced in writing Statements of Work, project approaches and proposals, in long-form
Expertise in estimating, scoping and delivering large scale digital projects and products, using a variety of techniques
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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:
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
- 25 days annual leave 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 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.