- Do you have experience leading consulting engagements?
- Do you have strong experience around programme delivery, PMO and governance?
About Our Client
Our client is a growing consulting business that forms part of a larger, established professional services organisation. They work with clients on transformation, programme delivery, organisational change, technology and commercial improvement.
Job Description
- Manage consulting engagements from mobilisation through to delivery, client acceptance and closure.
- Turn agreed statements of work into clear delivery plans, including activities, milestones, resources, responsibilities and acceptance criteria.
- Manage programme plans, governance, reporting, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and change readiness across live engagements.
- Identify delivery problems early and lead recovery actions to keep engagements on time, within scope and within budget.
- Manage engagement budgets, delivery costs, consultant utilisation, work in progress and forecast profit margins.
- Manage scope changes through formal change control, assessing the impact on costs, resources and timescales before additional work begins.
- Lead blended delivery teams consisting of client employees, consultants, interim associates, suppliers and delivery partners, ensuring clear responsibilities and effective collaboration.
- Act as the main day-to-day client contact, managing senior stakeholders, competing priorities, delivery expectations and escalations.
- Review and quality-assure client deliverables to ensure they are accurate, consistent and meet the agreed requirements and quality standards.
- Support business change and adoption, while capturing lessons learned, client outcomes and evidence of the value delivered.
The Successful Applicant
A successful Consulting Engagement Manager should have:
- Strong experience managing consulting engagements or complex transformation programmes from mobilisation through to delivery and closure.
- Practical experience across programme or project delivery, PMO, governance, delivery assurance and business change.
- Proven responsibility for programme planning and the management of risks, issues, dependencies, decisions and delivery readiness.
- Strong commercial management experience, including budgets, delivery costs, utilisation, work in progress, profit margins and change control.
- A track record of identifying delivery or commercial problems early and implementing effective corrective actions.
- Experience leading blended and multidisciplinary teams, including client staff, consultants, interim associates, suppliers and delivery partners.
- Proven ability to manage multiple senior stakeholders with different or competing priorities, build alignment and influence decisions.
- Strong client-management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively, manage difficult conversations and handle delivery escalations.
- Experience reviewing and quality-assuring client outputs, with a strong focus on accuracy, consistency and client outcomes.
- Relevant qualifications such as PRINCE2, MSP, APM PMQ, PMP or SAFe would be beneficial, although strong practical consulting delivery experience is more important.
What's on Offer
- Competitive salary of £40,000 to £50,000
Consulting Engagement Manager • City of London, England
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