Consultant - Programme Advisory

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working culture

Flexible holiday allowances

Job summary

AtkinsRéalis UK Limited seeks a Programme Advisory professional to support major infrastructure programmes across the UK, including Nuclear, Aviation and High Speed 2. You will work on dashboards, reporting solutions and performance insights, collaborating with senior teams and clients to drive productivity and cost reduction.

You will join a growing, collaborative team, with opportunities for training, mentoring and career development within a globally connected organisation.

Qualifications

• Adaptability to changing client needs and environments.
• Analytical thinking to collect, organise and analyse data for insights.
• Ability to develop insightful reporting packs and executive dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Develop dashboards, reporting solutions and performance insights across programmes.
• Support three core capability pillars: Technical Leadership, Operational Leadership and Win Work Leadership.
• Engage with clients to communicate findings, recommendations and value.

Skills

Adaptability

Analytical Thinking

Reporting Visualization

Problem Solving

Consultancy Skills

Stakeholder Management

Presentation

Continuous Improvement

Programme Lifecycle

Process Mapping

Proactive Approach

Driving Change

Technical Excellence

Certifications

Tools

Power BI

Job description

Job Description Overview

Programme Advisory Team - Join our Growing Complex Infrastructure Advisory Practice. We’ve experienced significant success in the complex infrastructure sector over the last two years, positioning Programme Advisory as one of the fastest-growing parts of our organisation. With ambitious plans for even faster growth in the coming years, we are looking to expand our team with talented and passionate professionals. Our Programme Advisory team works with some of the largest and most complex infrastructure programmes in the UK, supporting sectors such as Nuclear, Aviation, Defence, Water, Transportation, Power, and Renewables. We’re currently embedded in major UK programmes, including Hinkley Point C, Sizewell C, High Speed 2, TRU, and Thames Water. Our clients face increasing pressure to drive productivity, improve performance, and reduce costs. We help them analyse their needs, create effective solutions through structures, processes, technology, and behaviours needed to turn their vision of a more streamlined operation into reality. We pride ourselves on our collaborative approach, empowering our clients with trusted partnerships to solve complex challenges and ensure they are well‑positioned for future success. By joining our Programme Advisory team, you will be part of a genuinely collaborative environment where everyone is supported to maximise their talents. We believe in recognising everyone’s contributions equally while delivering excellence together.

Your role

Are you someone who: Thrives in a fast‑paced, dynamic environment and is driven to make a real impact? Is passionate about sustainability and making an impact on our environment? Brings experience in a consultancy environment? Enjoys developing dashboards, reporting solutions, and performance insights? Is motivated to grow and develop professionally. Is eager to seize opportunities for training, development and new sector experiences? Wants to learn from specialists and receive mentorship? Seeks roles that align with and strengthen your skill set? If you answered "yes" to these questions, this role could be an excellent fit for you! This is a unique opportunity to work alongside some of the most experienced teams in the global AtkinsRéalis business, across a wide variety of programmes. You will play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our ambitious growth objectives while also developing your career and advancing your personal growth journey. We are seeking enthusiastic individuals with a blend of analytical skills, problem solving, technical skills and interpersonally skills to support our three core capability pillars: Technical Leadership: Acting as subject matter experts, providing expert advice and insight to clients across key sectors. Operational Leadership: Supporting the development and growth of future AtkinsRéalis teams, prioritising welfare, talent retention and professional development. Win Work Leadership: Advocating our capabilities to clients, helping to expand our portfolio and secure new projects.

About you

• Adaptability: Flexibility to adjust approaches and strategies based on changing client needs and environment.
• Analytical Skills: Apply your strong analytical thinking to collect, organise, and analyse significant amounts of data, ensuring the accurate delivery of insights and recommendations.
• Performance Reporting & Visualisation: Develop insightful reporting packs, KPIs, executive dashboards, and Power BI visualisations that provide stakeholders with clear visibility of programme performance, risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Problem Solving: Creative and critical thinking to develop innovative solutions for client challenges.
• Consultancy Skills: Enhance your ability to influence clients on strategic initiatives and introduce innovative solutions that will make a long‑lasting impact.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, tailoring communications to specific audiences and facilitating effective workshops (in‑person, virtual, or hybrid).
• Presentation of findings: prepare and present reports, proposals and recommendations to clients and stakeholders, effectively communicating complex ideas.
• Continuous Improvement: identify opportunities for process and operational enhancements and contribute to the development of innovative cost‑effective solutions in programmes and operations.
• Programme Lifecycle: You will contribute across the full programme lifecycle, assisting in the setup and delivery of major transformational projects and PMOs.
• Process Mapping: Support the develop and implementation of best practices, processes, and guidance for operational teams, programme teams and PMOs.
• Proactive Approach: Take initiative in delivering high‑quality advice and solutions in dynamic, complex, and often ambiguous environments.
• Driving Change: Support change initiatives, driving tangible results in fast‑evolving environments.
• Technical Excellence: Deliver an exceptional service to our clients, ensuring that both clients and internal teams benefit from your technical knowledge and insights.
• Professional Certifications: Ideally, you will hold or be working towards certifications such as APM PMQ/PPQ/ChPP, MoP, MSP, or PRINCE2, or similar qualifications.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive – at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life. Be rewarded. Find out more.

About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world‑class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people. Find out more.

Additional information

Security Clearance: This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview. The vetting process is delivered by United Kingdom Security Vetting (UKSV) and may require candidates to provide proof of residency in the UK of 5 years or longer. If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance. We are committed to creating a culture where everyone feels that they belong - a place where we can all be ourselves, thrive and develop to be the best we can be. So, we offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and employee resource groups to support all employees.

As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability. As a Disability Confident Leader, we are committed to offering an interview to all applicants who have a disability and meet the essential criteria. If you would like to be considered under this commitment, please let us know at the application stage.

Worker Type Employee Job Type Regular At AtkinsRéalis, we seek to hire individuals with diverse characteristics, backgrounds and perspectives. We strongly believe that world‑class talent makes no distinctions based on gender, ethnic or national origin, sexual identity and orientation, age, religion or disability, but enriches itself through these differences. Created by the integration of long‑standing organizations dating back to 1911, AtkinsRéalis is a world‑class engineering services and nuclear company dedicated to engineering a better future for our planet and its people. We create sustainable solutions that connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s infrastructure and energy systems. We deploy global capabilities locally to our clients and deliver unique end‑to‑end services across the whole life cycle of an asset including consulting, advisory & environmental services, intelligent networks & cybersecurity, design & engineering, procurement, project & construction management, operations & maintenance, decommissioning and capital. The breadth and depth of our capabilities are delivered to clients in strategic sectors such as Engineering Services, Nuclear and Capital.

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