Associate Director, Financial Services (Investment Management), Programme Leadership, Major Pro[...]

Are you energised by the opportunity to tackle some of the world’s biggest and most complex social, environmental and economic challenges? Do you get excited about working with a diverse and global team of experts and experienced professionals? Are you passionate about leading organisations through transformation to deliver value and sustainable benefits to their customers, clients and staff? If so, Deloitte’s Major Programmes practice could be the place for you!

Deloitte’s Major Programmes practice (part of the wider Human Capital offering) is currently recruiting for individuals with industry and technical skills that can strengthen our capability to address complex programme challenges and create conditions for success for the world’s most impactful programmes. Major Programmes typically involve the delivery of a major capital asset or infrastructure through large, complex programmes that require significant investments and span multiple years. Historically, most Programmes of this scale and impact fail to deliver value, on time and on budget.

Our clients look to us and our deep and broad programme delivery expertise to lead them through complex transformations and implement new and effective ways to deliver major programmes. Our market leading next generation delivery approach, Programme Aerodynamics, replaces siloed, conventional, linear thinking with multi-disciplinary capability to help our clients deliver their most critical and demanding programmes while reinforcing Deloitte’s commitment to purpose-led change.

Programme Aerodynamics is a fundamentally new approach bringing together mindsets, expertise, methodologies, and solutions from Strategy, Programme, Digital, Programme Leadership and Human Centred Transformation to better anticipate, shape and manage change in Major Programmes. It empowers project leaders to effectively anticipate and manage change, risk and uncertainty across a programme’s lifecycle, shaping its success.

You will have the opportunity to work across a range of impactful programmes, building your skills and experience on the job, as well as supported by our world class professional development approach. You will also experience the breadth of what Deloitte offers, working with colleagues across a range of disciplines in a dynamic and collaborative environment and drawing on our market leading methods, and our global assets and tools.

Your role:

• Take the lead in partnering with clients to solve complex issues, through leading teams to design, shape and deliver strategically significant projects and programmes.
• Work with a range of senior stakeholders both internally within Deloitte and in client organisations at all levels, as a subject matter expert on Programme Leadership.
• Apply a combination of consulting experience, industry knowledge, tools and technology to anticipate and address programme/portfolio challenges with client and colleague teams.
• Lead teams from across different parts of Deloitte, clients, and other partners to deliver complex client programmes and critical outcomes.
• Support business development by building client relationships, contributing to new business proposals, and taking key roles in industry and account teams.
• Contribute to internal practice development by participating in proposition, methodology and point of view development activities, and supporting knowledge capture and sharing.
• Demonstrate excellent presentation, facilitation, and communication skills across all levels of client and Deloitte stakeholders.

You’re curious and natural at taking initiative. We have unique challenges to solve, and often in unique contexts. You should have strong experience in most of the following:

• Leading components of large-scale business / organisational transformation programmes, using traditional and/or agile methodologies with a strong understanding of digital/technology enabled change.
• Experience in delivering at least one of the following types of programmes: Wealth Technology Platforms; Asset Servicing; Digital and/or Cloud transformation, including implementation of digital user experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud-based ERP and/or other cloud architectures; Real Estate Programme strategy; definition and planning, delivery strategy, business case development; mergers and acquisitions.
• Portfolio design; alignment of programmes with business strategy; frameworks to shape and manage delivery through the cycle.
• Programme set-up; delivery/operating model design, commercial model structure, definition and mapping of programme outcomes.
• Programme delivery; project and programme management, programme controls/assurance, risk management, and operational readiness.
• Programme recovery; executive level engagement, recovery planning, and experience reshaping programmes.
• Commercial and contract management, and strong understanding of engagement risk, either in a professional services environment or as a customer of a professional services partner.
• Demonstrated record of building long standing, trust-based relationships with clients, and identifying opportunities to sell and deliver complex organisation transformation.
• Experience leading development of client propositions, and a track record of winning work in the market, and including leading the structuring of teams and commercials, and mobilising new engagements.
• Extensive industry knowledge and trends, and deep expertise in programme leadership, bringing lessons learnt and insights to clients and the wider Deloitte group.
• Experience of contributing to thought leadership, points of view, publications and business strategy.
• Highly experienced stakeholder management and influencing skills, and relationship building at all levels including the C-suite.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across all levels of an organisation including senior management.
• Demonstrated history of inclusive leadership and managing and coaching diverse teams. Role-modelling collaborative working and teaming.

Our hybrid working policy: You’ll be based in one of our UK locations with hybrid working. At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely.

Our commitment to you: Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before. We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution.