Lead Consultant in London

We are a global digital business services organization with a mission to improve the way people and companies work. Our Consulting, Delivery and Learning teams design and deliver transformational digital products and experiences that add value to our clients’ businesses and to their customers’ lives. Every day, across the world, our teams are pioneering faster, better ways to bring our clients’ most exciting ideas to life.

We are currently seeking a Lead Consultant to join the team on exciting and challenging client engagements.

A Lead Consultant has an impact on client engagements and improving Emergn’s products & services. They are capable of working alone or in a team to deploy engagements or parts of engagements with direction.

We want you to:

• Implement with the client/Emergn team, the proposed change solution and the experiments to be run and measured.
• Provide the specific content and measures for Solutions assurance, for the engagement.
• Generate feedback on the success validated by measures from the experiments to close the engagement.
• Generate feedback on the application of value propositions deployed in the engagement.
• Actively promote ways of working based on principles of Value, Flow, Quality.
• Proactively share knowledge throughout Emergn and the Engagement team.
• Actively demonstrate a ‘discovery mindset’ – continuous learning and incremental results – in the way they work, and that of their teams/function.
• Implement change that provides valuable outcomes for the client and people within the company forever in an element of a large engagement or the whole of a smaller engagement.
• Be accountable for the success of the elements of an Emergn consulting solution in mid to large-sized complex clients or smaller whole engagements.
• Manage the elements of the agreed solution to solve the agreed problems.
• Establish themselves & the Emergn team as trusted partners within the customer organization to ensure the successful implementation of solutions and change.
• Onboard all types of consultants, mentor less experienced consultants.
• Help other people develop themselves and regularly give insightful, useful feedback to those around them.
• Foster effective collaboration in Engagement teams.
• Ensure that the solution implemented delights the customer.
• Use the latest thinking from disciplines such as Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, and others to help the client build high-performing teams and make change happen.
• Develop strong relationships across the client’s organization.

This job might be for you if you have:

• Expertise in management consulting/professional services or in senior positions in an enterprise organization.
• Expertise in agile and/or lean product development including the value and principles, and how they are applied in enterprise environments.
• Experience in being part of an implementation team and or product transformations, dealing with complexity.
• Experience in one or more agile methodologies and practices (Lean, Kanban, XP, TDD, CI), and how they can be applied in a product development/program delivery environment.
• Understanding of how to implement the models that solve the challenges with Portfolio or Product Management and Agile Enablement, including the structure of work, organizational design, and skills and knowledge.
• Strong communication, facilitation and negotiation skills.
• Experience in Pre-Sales.
• Experience in client relationship/client-facing roles, with strong team building, coaching and mentoring skills.
• Highly skilled in large-scale enterprise change projects & programs.
• Ability to shape strong presentations and narratives that influence and commit people to change.
• Applying expertise and knowledge, achieving sustainable results.
• Establish and maintain a discovery mindset, continuously learning and applying the latest thinking.

What we offer:

• Health and dental insurance.
• EAP & Life Insurance.
• Workplace Nursery Scheme.
• A flexible work environment: you can work remotely or hybrid from one of our locations.
• Working with the latest tools and technologies on meaningful client engagements.
• Career growth opportunities and a clear progression framework.
• Local teambuilding activities and get-togethers to strengthen your sense of belonging and encourage meaningful relationships with your colleagues.
• Two weeks per year for you to work from a location of your choice, expanding your horizons while staying connected to your team.
• Generous referral bonus program, quarterly and yearly company awards with financial incentives.
• 8 hours of paid volunteering.
• Work where you’ll make an impact every day.

At Emergn, we’re driven to improve the way people and companies work. We are enablers of ideas, champions of our client’s vision and recognised experts at using innovation to help you better connect with customers. Passionate about bringing ideas to market in the most impactful way, we help our clients place their customers at the heart of their business.