Junior Change Manager - Consultant Analyst

PA Consulting; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Join PA Consulting as a Consultant Analyst within our People and Change Team, where you'll support organizations in driving and embedding transformational change. Collaborate with a team of experts to create innovative solutions and meet the dynamic needs of clients. A role that offers hybrid working, professional growth, and the chance to make a real impact in shaping organizations for the future.

Benefits

25 days annual leave plus bonus days

Health and lifestyle perks including private healthcare

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Opportunity to get involved with community initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience working with a range of stakeholders.
• Collaborative approach with flexibility for diverse challenges.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver and support change programmes.
• Create innovative communication and engagement plans.
• Assess and prepare interventions for large-scale transformations.

Skills

Emotional Intelligence

Analytical Thinking

Problem-Solving

Communication Skills

Job description

• Full-time

Company 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.

Job Description

Become part of our People and Change Team!

We create purposeful, innovative and sustainable organisations that people want to be a part of. We do this through harnessing the power of people to design, deliver and embed lasting change to enable organisations and their people to perform to their highest potential.

Our diverse team have real-world experience in shaping and delivering transformational change, however we also understand people and what makes them tick and it is this combination that enables us to craft ingenious, unique and valuable solutions for our clients. Within our growing People & Change team we have digital transformation expertise, behavioural scientists, talent curators, communications experts, transformation specialists, learning innovators, occupational psychologists and many more.

The Role:

We are currently recruiting for Consultant Analysts with proven experience in change and transformation initiatives, either within a consulting role or from industry backgrounds. We are looking for experience in one or more of the following:

• Delivering and supporting change programmes.
• Creating innovative communication and engagement plans and supporting stakeholders at all levels to understand and embrace change.
• Working across all levels of an organisation to embrace new technology and adapt ways of working to achieve organisational benefits.
• Assessing the impact of large-scale transformations and preparing behavioural interventions that embed new ways of working.
• Leveraging data to measure change readiness, effectiveness and enable informed decision making.
• Experience driving enablement and/or adoption strategies for integrated technology solutions.
• Agile and/or ERP experience would be highly desirable but not essential.

Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week. However, the actual time you spend and where you spend it will vary by role or assignment, including up to 5 days per week on a client site.

Qualifications

Your key strengths include:

• High levels of emotional intelligence and experience working with a range of stakeholders so that you can adapt your approach to the environment.
• A collaborative and enthusiastic approach to your work, with flexibility to work on diverse challenges in small or large teams.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with an ability to deliver practical results.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral, which allow you to work effectively with colleagues and clients.

About People & Change:

Across our People and Change Capability we work with governments and industry, bringing insight, innovation and ingenuity to their most complex problems, from designing the concept for an electric vehicle charge point to accelerating the adoption of zero-emission road transport, to helping large consumer and manufacturing clients understand the impact of AI on parts of their workforce. With over 60 years of experience, PA’s People and Change management team has a reputation for delivering world-class results, helping organisations put their people at the heart of change to deliver lasting results.

The areas we currently specialise in are:

• Shaping purpose and culture to create organisations that people want to be part of.
• Reskilling and transforming workforces for an innovative and sustainable future.
• Amplifying the value and impact of people to enable effective digital transformation.
• Building enduring leadership and change capability for organisational success.

Why you’ll enjoy being a part of our People and Change Capability

As well as the more formal benefits listed below, working in PA’s People and Change Capability provides some fantastic opportunities including:

• A welcoming and social team of colleagues who encourage and care for each other – including through a variety of wellbeing initiatives to support us whether we’re in the office, on client site or working from home.
• Fantastic professional development opportunities such as mentoring, formal and informal learning opportunities (including through sponsorship of professional accreditation).
• Some great employee networks, communities, and groups, including PA Pride, the BAME network, Occupational Psychology Forum, Future of Work, Women’s Network, Mental Health and Wellbeing Network and Military Network.

If you’re bright, enterprising and a fast learner, then we want to hear from you. We’re looking for candidates with potential to learn on the job and are enthusiastic to work alongside our clients.

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.

Apply today by completing our online application

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.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us [e-mail]