Principal Consultant (Management and Leadership Development)

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity. Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists with deep expertise in various sectors.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2-3 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site. Travel to client site will be necessary as and when the client requires. This role can be based from our Bristol, London (Victoria) or Manchester.

Our Systems Insights & Solutions team are looking for a Principal Consultant in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) with experience in Aerospace & Defence or related discrete manufacturing industries. We believe that business value can be derived from PLM solutions when the correct application of end-to-end process thinking combines with enabling technology and the right transformation approach.

As a Principal Consultant within Systems Insights and Solutions, you will take a leading role on projects that have a real impact on our clients' ability to deliver new products, delivering game changing solutions. This role will focus upon the delivery of PLM solutions supporting all phases of the product lifecycle, with primary focus on Digital Engineering. We excel at working in complex environments to solve problems in collaboration with our clients. We often partner with vendors and other consultancies to bring the best team to address our clients' needs.

As a Business Integrator, our main roles will be to:

• Support clients in transformation programme delivery
• Define the business operating model and processes
• Support the business change activities required to deliver adoption
• Act as the glue between our clients and Systems Integrators

Qualifications

Essential qualifications and experience:

• PLM Leadership: 10+ years of PLM experience, working with the major PLM vendors to design and deploy their solutions.
• Technical Expertise: Deep hands‐on expertise in core PLM processes, such as BOM management, change/config, variant/options management, systems engineering, CAD/CAE integration, ALM, maintenance and through‐life support.
• Business acumen: Experience in shaping business cases and implementation roadmaps for investment in PLM solutions.
• Ability to hold executive level conversations to build alignment on a PLM transformation vision.
• Prior consulting experience: Experience of supporting the sales process as well as delivery.
• Experience and knowledge of key working practices in Defence, or other discrete manufacturing industries.

Apply today by completing our online application. Please be aware that some of our UK roles at PA Consulting require a UK security clearance. We therefore ask that you only apply if you meet the residency requirements (i.e. you are a British citizen or have been resident in the UK for the past 5 years), as this is the prerequisite for a security clearance.

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Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare, 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) 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).

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