Senior Consultant (February/March 2025 start)

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REACH YOUR POTENTIAL | COLLABORATE WITH AMAZING PEOPLE | MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN

Do you have the skills, passion, and commitment to be part of an amazing and inspiring community of Program & Project Management practitioners. Are you ready to be a changemaker? If so, join us.

North Highland is the world's leading change and transformation consultancy. Simply put, we make change happen like no one else. And we're on the hunt for a Senor Consultant to help our clients and grow our community.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN?
PPM is at the heart of our most challenging and exciting client work. We work with our clients to transform their businesses - through strategic program advisory, PMO (Programme Management Office) and portfolio management, complex program leadership, and program/ project delivery. Tailoring our solutions for projects of all sizes and levels of complexity.

We do PPM with a difference. We work:

• With our clients, not for them, embedding ourselves into their teams. This means we focus on everything from strategy and design to delivery and knowledge transfer, so we leave our clients in great position to succeed.
• Across industry, giving you great variety and career development opportunities.
• In blended, cross-capability teams - given the complex and challenging problems that we help our clients solve, we believe in cross-skilled teams. You'll get to partner with our strong Change Management, Data & Analytics and Strategy teams, to name a few.

EXCITING WORK YOU'LL DO

• Use of programme and project management knowledge to plan and lead work streams with small teams.
• Manage own activities and those of team members to deliver desired business outcomes.
• Focus on quality completion of deliverables.
• Work directly with clients as a visible and engaged member of the team.
• Actively contribute to business development through the identification of new opportunities with existing clients.
• Establish positive relationships with clients and peers that build credibility, foster your support network, and empower career development.
• Join a well-established team with opportunities for growth and a strong community of ambitious, lively, and collaborative members.
• Nurture your personal interests with our training programme, which can be applied to development activities and growth projects.
• Give back to your community through impactful internal projects and initiatives that benefit the community.

EXPERIENCE WE LOOK FOR IN YOU

• End-to-end project management
• Management of small teams
• Ability to shape a work stream and bring structure to projects
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Appreciation of Waterfall and Agile methodologies
• Stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Exposure to Transformation/Change and Technology led projects
• Budget accountability
• Ability to work cross-capability
• Senior leadership interaction
• Some coaching experience
• Creative ingenuity and a proven ability to find or design simple solutions to complex challenges
• Firm contributions outside of project work

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

• Management consulting, advisory, professional services, and/or Big 4 consulting experience.
• An entrepreneurial mindset, including an excellent ability to uncover new opportunities for account growth and impact.
• An ability to authentically establish credibility, build consensus, and activate collaboration with clients and teammates.
• A demonstrated track record of successfully working on large, complex consulting engagements, including roles that involved managing and interfacing with senior-level client executives.
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with professional staff, senior level executives and the community at large.
• External accreditation or recognition from recognized professional bodies.
• A bachelor's degree from an accredited college/university or equivalent. A master's degree and/or applicable professional certifications are bonuses.

TRANSFORMING CLIENTS. TRANSFORMING CAREERS.
Success-for both our clients and our colleagues-is all about putting people first and doing great things together. We believe that when we work as one team, we can take action today to build lasting capability for tomorrow.

Here's how we make that happen:

• Grow through your choices. We want people who strive for the next level, and then the next. That's why we're passionate about giving you the tools you need to reach your full potential. It's rooted in our employee ownership model-with plenty of coaching and personal development opportunities to help you forge your own path to the top.
• You're never a number. Our firm is large enough to scale up and tackle big client challenges, but small enough that you won't get lost in the crowd. And that's something that will never change. We celebrate individuality, collaborate as a team, and put our people first. Always.
• Make your mark. Not content to stand still? We wouldn't have it any other way. There's room to experiment and stretch yourself here, and we encourage you to bring whatever you've got to the table.

READY TO MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN?

Click the 'Apply Now' button at the top of the page to submit your resume.

Founded in 1992, North Highland is an employee-owned firm-regularly named one of the best places to work. With our blend of workforce, customer, and operational expertise, we're also a leading voice in the change and transformation consultancy space. We have more than 5,000 consultants and 60 offices around the globe, all focused on helping businesses transform by placing people at the heart of every decision. It's how lasting progress is made. Meanwhile, we're a proud member of Cordence Worldwide (www.cordence.com), an international consulting alliance.

For more information, visit northhighland.com and connect with us on LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

Please note that applicants must be authorized to work in the United Kingdom without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland. Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, either now or in the future, for this position.

North Highland is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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