Senior Management Consultants with Organisational Agility Expertise

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job description

Why consider joining our Agile team?

Are you ready to join an inspiring global team that leads the way in Agile advisory? At PA Consulting, we help clients across sectors, whether they are highly mature agile organisations or just beginning their agile journey. As a leading consultancy and thought leader in organisational agility, we bring deep experience and insight to complex transformation challenges. Our work has supported the transition to green energy, introduced business agility in consumer companies, improved innovation and manufacturing quality while significantly reducing time to market for new products.

You will work with colleagues across PA on exciting assignments, gaining hands-on experience designing and implementing new ways of working alongside our clients. While experience with agile methodologies is valuable, we place greater emphasis on your ability to communicate effectively, organise work, solve problems, and present information clearly across all levels of an organisation

What you can expect

• Contribute to designing and implementing innovative solutions that help our clients succeed.
• Collaborate in multi-disciplinary teams with talented colleagues from across PA.
• Become part of a dynamic, global Agile community that shares knowledge and fosters innovation.
• An environment that deeply cares about its values.

At PA, we believe that value is created in collaboration and by working shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients. You will be part of an international environment where we value teamwork, sparring and feedback. It is also an environment that requires learning and new knowledge so we can deliver brilliant work to our clients. With us, you will follow and contribute to driving the latest developments in the field, while at the same time having access to training and certifications. We are therefore looking for someone with an open and curious approach to solving challenges and who is driven by acquiring new knowledge and turning this into action.

Your employment with us starts with a thorough introduction. To support your development, you will from day one be assigned a manager and a buddy who, together with you, will prepare a development plan adapted to your skills and interests.

Qualifications

Essential requirements

• At least five years of experience within management consulting, internal consulting roles, or similar positions.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with top-level stakeholders.
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills.
• Excellent writing skills as well as presentation skills.
• A strong interest in and passion for business transformation, process improvement, or agile ways of working.
• A desire to develop PA’s internal Agile capability, alongside delivering high-quality work with our clients.

We are looking for a variety of profiles, and if you have experience with one or more of the below it would be a plus, although not a requirement:

• Working in or supporting agile teams.
• Working with product management, for example as product owner responsible for managing a product end-to-end and/or experience with supporting an organisation move from a project to a product-focused approach, introducing design thinking practices into teams etc.
• An understanding of lean portfolio management (LPM), incl. hands-on experience implementing different portfolio management practices like prioritisation, capacity management, OKRs, funding etc.
Experience deploying business change techniques resulting in sustainable changes to behaviours and mindsets across organisational levels

Additional information

We’ll be taking our summer holiday during July and look forward to reviewing applications throughout August.

Please note that we do not accept CVs via email. To be considered, all applications must be submitted through our application system.

Thank you for your interest and patience, and we wish you a wonderful summer. ️

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]