Delivery Manager - Public Sector

PA Consulting Group; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

PA share ownership

Annual bonus

Job summary

PA Consulting Group is hiring a Delivery Manager to support its Major Programme Services in the UK. You will guide cross-functional teams, engage stakeholders, and ensure on-time delivery of complex products and services for public sector clients, including defence, with a strong emphasis on agile delivery.

This client-facing role offers a hybrid work model, with on-site collaboration and opportunities for formal qualifications and career progression within PA's Centre of Excellence for project

Qualifications

• At least 2 years' experience in agile delivery consulting or related roles.
• Experience working in public sector or with public sector clients; defence considered.
• Experience and knowledge of estimating, scoping and delivering products, services, and outcomes using delivery techniques.
• Experience in technical/engineering projects using Agile Delivery methods.
• Project management or project controls methodologies desirable.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving and decision-making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; able to present complex information clearly.
• Strong interpersonal skills for collaboration across levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery for UK clients on complex products and services.
• Set teams up for success, support problem solving and planning.
• Be client-facing, use metrics to inform clients about team delivery.
• Drive high throughput and continuous improvement in delivery teams.
• Develop delivery expertise through on-the-job learning and formal qualifications.

Skills

Agile delivery

Public sector

Stakeholder mgmt

Team leadership

Problem solving

Job description

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 teams of interdisciplinary 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.

Ready to take charge and steer projects towards success with your proven delivery expertise?

Our Major Programme Services (MPS) team is looking for exceptional, junior - mid level Delivery Managers with Public Sector or Defence experience.

As part of PA’s Delivery stream, PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme, and portfolio capability, the MPS team works across the defence, major projects & infrastructure, transport, and public sector domains in client-facing roles on long-term assignments.Having experienced repeated successes in delivering value and excellence for our clients, most of whom are within daily commuting range from home, we are in high demand and are now expanding further across the UK.

As a Delivery Manager, you will play a pivotal role in supporting our clients to delivering some of the UK’s most complex products and services. Your expertise in delivery management will be crucial in supporting the successful achievement of outcomes for our clients. You'll set the team up for success, support them in problem solving and planning and enable them to come up with their own insights within the complex constraints our clients face today. You’ll be fully client-facing, harnessing the metrics coming from the team, both to help the team improve its own throughput and to inform clients and others about how the teams are delivering. You’ll be an experienced delivery practitioner, getting into the detail to make things happen at pace.

Location

Hybrid working - our approach is to be on client site 2 days per week.

You will have opportunity to

• Play a role in the formation and running of high performing cross functional teams, where people are excited about the work they are undertaking. This means you are not set in one process or way of thinking but willing to learn new skills and blend approaches to solve our client challenges.
• Deliver products and projects using the appropriate methodology, learning and iterating frequently, sharing and re-applying skills and knowledge, and bringing in best practice with a view to continuous performance improvement.
• Set the bar/example of what great Delivery Management looks like, ensuring quality and attention to detail is embedded throughout our work.
• Lead stakeholder engagement activities, facilitating collaboration and communication among all participants.
• Develop your own delivery expertise even further through a range of on-the-job learning, training, and formal qualifications.

Qualifications

About You

• At least 2 years' experience in agile deliveryconsultingor related roles.
• Experience working inpublic sector or with public sector clients. We will also consider defence.
• Experience and knowledge of estimating, scoping and delivering products, services, and outcomes using a variety of delivery techniques and methods.
• Experience of working in technical/engineering projects using Agile Delivery methods.
• Experience or certification in project management or project controls methodologies (PMQ, Prince2 etc) is desirable.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to identify and solve problems, and to make informed decisions.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with the ability to present complex information to clients and stakeholders in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong interpersonal skills, enabling successful collaboration with stakeholders across all levels.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Additional information

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We’re committed to advancing equality.We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

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