Programme & Change Consultant - £65,000 base salary

A global Professional Services firm is currently recruiting for an experienced client-facing PMO Manager/Consultant to join their growing Business Consulting function.

The Programme & Change Consultant will be engaged in delivering a positive impact on client based projects. The firm works across various industries, with a variety clients. Therefore the base location will be Central London, but travel to client sites will be required.

Essential Skills & Experience:

• Extensive experience of managing the delivery of different types of complex projects, either within industry or with a consultancy
• Working knowledge and experience across multiple sectors and industries
• Significant experience across both IT and Business Change Projects/Programmes
• Proven experience at a Manager grade level
• Experience of assisting with the design and development of a PMO from the ground up
• Development of project plans across work streams and management of critical paths and dependencies in a project
• Project/Programme management qualification e.g. Prince2, MoP, and understanding and experience of other project management methodologies (e.g. Agile)
• Ability to coach, mentor and manage others in a project team
• Experience of progress reporting and risk management; preparation of status updates and reports as part of a PMO
• Experience with preparation of programme/project initiation and mobilisation documents incl. budgets and business cases
• Excellent communication, organisational problem solving and analytical skills; confidence in, and capable of managing communications and engagement at all levels from C-Suite and project sponsorship, through to fellow team members and stakeholders

This is a great opportunity for a client-facing PMO Professional to join a growing consulting team with a huge amount of buy-in from the Business and senior stakeholders. Please do send your CV to Alex Simmons for immediate consideration.