Consultant in Slough

The Consultant will be tasked with delivering excellent management consulting services across 4 primary service lines: Design; Change; Delivery and Enablement. The role requires the use of expert analytical, influencing and management skills to deliver effective solutions for complex business challenges. The Consultant may work alone or as part of a wider team, with accountability for customer facing projects, internal company growth, and personal development.

Our team is oriented around the 3 strategic drivers of the business: Customer, Colleague, and Company, and as such, all Consultants will have objectives set in each of these areas.

Competency Requirements

Essential

• Committed to excellence, and demonstrates the Culture DNA behaviours and values of professionalism, responsibility, diversity, doing the right thing, having fun and straight talking.
• Works well with others, is personally aware and exercises autonomy.

Customer focus:

• Proactive attitude with a focus on customer needs, prepared to go the extra mile when required.
• Proven experience in effective stakeholder management at senior level.
• Committed to nurturing relationships with customers and colleagues to enhance network.
• Able to draw on a wide range of experiences to deliver innovative customer solutions.

Communication:

• Strong communicator and effective at presenting to colleagues and customers (at Senior Director and Board-Level).
• Can convey complex messages in a simple to understand format, to ‘take customers on the journey’ of business transformation and project management.

Leadership:

• Proven team leader, can both ‘see the bigger picture’ personally, and lead others to see it.
• Excellent motivator of customer and colleague teams, leading by example.
• Able to think strategically under pressure and in ambiguous customer situations.
• Demonstrates organisational agility and drives accountability.

Consulting:

• Explores ways to develop specialist knowledge and skill.
• Significant experience managing or working on projects in the public and/or private sector.
• Experience using full suite of MS products.
• Ability to multi-task effectively.
• Experienced user of software products relevant for: process mapping, business analytics, financial modelling, organisation design, project management.

Desirable

• Specific expertise in a particular industry or service line.
• Proficient in French, German, Spanish or other main European language.

Responsibilities

Customer

• Execute engagements in line with consulting standard practices (CSP) including governance and reporting.
• Lead customer engagements to research, analyse, and present outputs on specific business challenges.
• Lead customer engagements to prepare benchmarking reports and market briefings.
• Ensure best practice is shared with customers, including through leveraging the ‘Associate’ network.
• Identify and secure any opportunities for future engagements.

Colleague

• Take proactive role in enacting the colleagues support model.
• Lead and support direct line reports ensuring their wellbeing, motivation to achieve high performance and timely execution of employee life-cycle activities.
• Participate in mentoring and coaching activities with junior colleagues.
• Proactively share knowledge and best practice internally across Indegene.
• Seek feedback from colleagues at all levels to continue personal and professional development.
• Provide support and leadership to colleagues on internal and customer-facing work as required.
• Actively participate with colleagues in internal operational meetings.

Company

• Identify and create thought leadership.
• Proactive involvement in business development including account management and support development of any opportunities, proposal or contracts.
• Update internal reports and management tools, including capacity reports and project activity logs.
• Own specific aspects of the growth strategy.
• Pursue personal development initiatives through the various training opportunities and qualifications available at Indegene.

Qualifications

Essential

• Bachelor Degree in relevant discipline.
• 3-5 years work experience in a similar or applicable role.
• Other qualifications relevant to the role (e.g. SAFe Agile, PRINCE2).

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY: Indegene is proud to be an Equal Employment Employer and is committed to the culture of Inclusion and Diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, sex, colour, age, national origin, pregnancy, sexual orientation, physical ability, or any other characteristics. All employment decisions, from hiring to separation, will be based on business requirements, candidate’s merit and qualification. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristics.