Senior Consultant, (Project Manager), London in Whitehall

The Senior Consultant – Project Manager partners with Consulting and Commercial colleagues to plan, coordinate, and deliver projects effectively, ensuring a high‑quality client experience, strong operational discipline, and data‑driven decision making.

Key Responsibilities

• Play a central role in delivering projects aligned to the growth of Interim solutions within the UK Public Sector.
• Support mobilisation and coordination of interim assignments and multi‑role engagements.
• Track and analyse pipeline, utilisation, and delivery performance metrics.
• Ensure visibility of progress, risks, and dependencies for effective execution.
• Contribute to building repeatable delivery approaches, tools, and tracking mechanisms to support scaling.
• Work closely with Consulting and Commercial colleagues to align delivery with growth objectives.
• Manage end‑to‑end delivery of projects or defined workstreams, from mobilisation through to completion.
• Develop and maintain project plans, timelines, and deliverables.
• Coordinate internal teams to clarify scope, roles, and expectations.
• Monitor progress and proactively manage risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Track and analyse project and programme data, including progress, utilisation, timelines, and key delivery metrics.
• Support forecasting and reporting using internal systems and tools.
• Translate data into clear insights and actions to support decision making.
• Maintain high levels of data accuracy and reporting discipline.
• Track project financials: budget, time, expenses, and margin indicators.
• Support invoicing and financial reporting processes.
• Provide regular updates on progress, forecast, and variances.
• Act as a key point of contact for internal teams and, where appropriate, clients.
• Support effective communication across stakeholders.
• Facilitate project meetings and ensure clear actions and follow‑up.
• Ensure consistent use of Korn Ferry tools, systems, and delivery processes.
• Support onboarding and coordination of project team members.
• Contribute to improving project management practices, tools, and reporting approaches.

Success Profile

• Drives Results (Making it Happen – Level 3): delivers on commitments and ensures steady progress across multiple priorities.
• Plans and Aligns (Processing Information – Level 3): structures delivery effectively and aligns stakeholders around clear plans.
• Collaborates (Facilitating Interaction – Level 3): builds strong working relationships across teams and functions.
• Communicates Effectively (Inspiring Communication – Level 3): communicates clearly, including translating data into meaningful insights.
• Manages Complexity (Processing Information – Level 2‑3): handles multiple priorities and navigates ambiguity with structure.
• Customer Focus (Creating Empathy – Level 3): supports strong client relationships and delivery quality.
• Business Insight (Creating Ideas – Level 2‑3): understands key commercial and operational metrics (e.g., utilisation, margin, pipeline).

Plays a key role in enabling the successful delivery and scaling of the Interim growth initiative through FY27. Delivers multiple projects or workstreams on time and to a high standard. Uses data effectively to track performance, identify issues, and support decisions. Builds strong working relationships with internal teams and clients. Contributes to consistent, scalable, and data‑driven delivery practices.

Experience & Qualifications

• Experience managing projects or workstreams in consulting, professional services, or similar environments.
• Experience working with data, reporting, and performance tracking.
• Exposure to financial tracking (budgeting, forecasting, invoicing).
• Experience coordinating cross‑functional teams.
• (Desirable) Experience in UK Public Sector and/or interim / contingent workforce solutions.

Drivers

• Motivated by delivering high‑quality, measurable outcomes.
• Energised by contributing to growth initiatives and scaling new capabilities.
• Enjoys working with data to track performance and improve delivery.
• Numerate and data‑oriented, comfortable working with metrics and analysis.
• Organised and detail‑oriented.
• Reliable and accountable.
• Collaborative and adaptable.

About the Opportunity

We are seeking a Senior Consultant – Project Manager to support the delivery of client engagements and strategic initiatives across Korn Ferry Consulting. This role will play a central role through FY27 in a priority "big bet" growth initiative, focused on expanding Korn Ferry's Interim placement capability within the UK Public Sector. Alongside this, the role will operate as a flexible Project Manager, supporting additional projects across Korn Ferry's solution areas as required.