Associate Director, Financial Services (Insurance), Programme Leadership, Major Programmes, Hum ...

DELOITTE LLP; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading professional services firm is looking for individuals to join their Major Programmes practice in Edinburgh. You will lead teams on significant projects, engaging with clients to solve complex challenges in transformation programmes. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in programme management and strong leadership skills. This role offers opportunities for professional development and diverse project involvement.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Collaborative working environment

Qualifications

• Strong experience in leadership roles across large-scale transformation programmes.
• Deep expertise in digital/technology-enabled change.
• Demonstrated history of building trust-based relationships with clients.

Responsibilities

• Lead teams to deliver strategically significant projects and programmes.
• Work with senior stakeholders as a subject matter expert on Programme Leadership.
• Support business development by building client relationships.

Skills

Programme/Portfolio Management

Stakeholder Management

Transformation Programmes

Cloud Transformation

Commercial Management

Job description

Locations: Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, Manchester

Date published: 10-Apr-2025

Overview

Deloitte's Major Programmes practice is recruiting for individuals with industry and technical skills to strengthen our capability to address complex programme challenges and create conditions for success for the world's most impactful programmes. Major Programmes typically involve the delivery of a major capital asset or infrastructure through large, complex programmes that require significant investments and span multiple years. Our market leading next generation delivery approach, Programme Aerodynamics, replaces siloed, conventional, linear thinking with multi-disciplinary capability to help our clients deliver their most critical and demanding programmes while reinforcing Deloitte\'s commitment to purpose-led change. Programme Aerodynamics brings together mindsets, expertise, methodologies, and solutions to better anticipate, shape and manage change in Major Programmes, empowering project leaders to effectively anticipate and manage change, risk and uncertainty throughout a programme\'s lifecycle.

Our practice comprises a blend of those who have worked previously in industry and those who have prior consulting experience. The strength and value Major Programmes bring to our clients and Deloitte is a result of our diverse and highly relevant industry insights and experience. You will have the opportunity to work across a range of impactful programmes, building your skills on the job, supported by our world class professional development approach, and collaborate with colleagues across disciplines using our methods, assets and tools.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead in partnering with clients to solve complex issues, through leading teams to design, shape and deliver strategically significant projects and programmes
• Work with a range of senior stakeholders both internally within Deloitte and in client organisations at all levels, as a subject matter expert on Programme Leadership
• Apply a combination of consulting experience, industry knowledge, tools and technology to anticipate and address programme/portfolio challenges with client and colleague teams
• Lead teams from across different parts of Deloitte, clients, and other partners to deliver complex client programmes and critical outcomes
• Support business development by building client relationships, contributing to new business proposals, and taking key roles in industry and account teams
• Contribute to internal practice development by participating in proposition, methodology and point of view development activities, and supporting knowledge capture and sharing
• Demonstrate excellent presentation, facilitation, and communication skills across all levels of client and Deloitte stakeholders

Skills and qualifications

You're curious and natural at taking initiative. We have unique challenges to solve, often in unique contexts. You should have strong experience in leadership roles across large-scale transformation programmes and portfolios, including:

• Deep expertise in programme/portfolio management, experience with delivering large transformation programmes using traditional and/or agile methodologies with a strong understanding of digital/technology enabled change
• Experienced in delivering at least one of the following types of programmes: (1) Digital and/or Cloud transformation, including implementation of digital user experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud-based ERP and/or other cloud architectures; (2) Organisation & Operating Model Transformation; (3) Strategic Cost Reduction; (4) Regulatory; (5) Finance & Actuarial Transformation
• Programme set-up; delivery/operating model design, commercial model structure, definition, and mapping of programme outcomes
• Programme delivery; project and programme management, programme controls/assurance, risk management, and operational readiness
• Programme recovery; executive level engagement, recovery planning, and experience reshaping programmes
• Commercial and contract management, and strong understanding of engagement risk, either in a professional services environment or as a customer of a professional services partner
• Demonstrated record of building long standing, trust-based relationships with clients, and identifying opportunities to sell and deliver complex organisation transformation
• Experience leading development of client propositions, and a track record of winning work in the market, and including leading the structuring of teams and commercials, and mobilising new engagements
• Extensive industry knowledge and trends, and deep expertise in programme leadership, bringing lessons learnt and insights to clients and the wider Deloitte group
• Experience of contributing to thought leadership, points of view, publications, and business strategy
• Highly experienced stakeholder management and influencing skills, and relationship building at all levels including the C-suite
• Excellent communication and presentation skills across all levels of an organisation including senior management
• Demonstrated history of inclusive leadership and managing and coaching diverse teams. Role-modelling collaborative working and teaming

Preferred but not required insight / experience across one or more of the following:

• (1) Finance and Actuarial Transformation, (2) Target Operating Model, (3) Digital and/or Cloud transformation, including implementation of digital user experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, Cloud-based ERP and/or other cloud architectures; (4) Regulatory Change

Connect to your career

Connect to your career at Deloitte. Deloitte drives progress. We invest in outstanding people, build teams of future thinkers, and empower them to reach for and achieve more. Our five shared values guide every decision and action: lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact.

Connect to your opportunity

Our Major Programmes business sits within Human Capital - the world\'s leading people and HR transformation business. You\'ll develop change programmes that are not only innovative, but deliver the most positive impact for all, and build trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders. Within Programme Leadership, we are growing the team by recruiting individuals with experience across Retail and Commercial Banking, Building Societies, Wealth and Asset Management, Capital Markets, Insurance and Reinsurance.

Human Capital

People are what powers enterprise. We help clients utilise technology to support their workforce, organisation, and HR Transformations.

Business terms

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation: Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we\'ll make an impact that matters.