Manager - Strategic Advisory Services

KPMG Careers; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Manager for Strategic Advisory Services to support government and infrastructure projects. The role involves developing strategies, managing client workstreams, and demonstrating expertise in critical infrastructure issues. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in energy or water sectors and a passion for complex infrastructure challenges.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Office work options

Part-time options available

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in infrastructure sectors.
• Experience in energy or water sector is essential.
• Background in developing client operational models.

Responsibilities

• Lead small projects and complex work streams.
• Contribute to client workstreams and business development.
• Create client-ready deliverables requiring limited review.

Skills

Analytical skills

Commercial acumen

Client relationship management

Numerical capabilities

Education

Degree in relevant field

Job description

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham & Other locations

Location: Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cambridge, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, London, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle upon Tyne, Norwich, Nottingham, Plymouth, Reading, South Coast - Southampton, Watford

Experience Level: Manager

Type: Full Time

Service Line: Customer, Ops & Infr

Contract type: Permanent

Job Title/Req Number: Manager - Strategic Advisory Services / 107051

KPMG's Infrastructure and Government Strategic Advisory Services (SAS) team needs talented individuals who have a passion for built infrastructure. Our team supports government and infrastructure clients with their most complex challenges. We get involved in many fascinating projects. We develop strategies for the implementation of government policy, designing operating models that underpin public services. We structure holistic supplier relationships that create and maintain physical and digital asset systems.

Typically, the advice we provide can be categorised as:

• Policy, regulation, and service model design
• Business operating model design and implementation
• Procurement and commercial strategy

Why Join KPMG as a Manager - Strategic Advisory Services?

This is an exciting time to join the team. Our work is varied, often high-profile and rewarding. We are working on some fascinating public issues including Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) implications for the public sector and its partners, the future transportation, and how to deliver some of the largest and most complex infrastructure programmes in the UK.

What will you be doing?

• You will perform a critical role contributing to client workstreams, supporting business development, and helping our team to grow and develop.
• Generate hypotheses and take ownership in storyboarding in cooperation with the team
• Lead the design and delivery of small projects and / or large, complex work streams
• Produce client ready deliverables that exceed expectations and require limited review
• To work effectively with clients whilst delivering engagements and act as an ‘ambassador’ for KPMG
• Contribute to the development of the team and fostering our collaborative and supportive team culture
• Provide timely feedback and coaching to your team members
• Work on the development of our propositions and knowledge base
• Support the identification of on-sell / cross-sell opportunities
• Build and maintain a strong internal and external network
• Demonstrate high levels of drive, ambition, and ability to collaborate at high levels of intensity

What will you need to do it?

• Demonstrate deep expertise and an ability to generate insights in the sector with a demonstrated passion for working on critical issues facing the infrastructure sectors
• Experience in the energy or water sector is a must
• Background in developing client operational and/or supplier delivery models
• Ability to lead parts of complex infrastructure delivery model design including commercial and procurement strategy
• Ability to display involvement in business development activity e.g. building relationships with clients during engagements
• Experience in contributing to thought leadership and knowledge management activities
• Be comfortable handling ambiguity and changing client demands
• Strong numerical capabilities combined with sound commercial acumen
• Excellent English written and oral communication skills

To discuss this or wider Deal Advisory roles with our recruitment team, all you need to do is apply, create a profile, upload your CV and begin to make your mark with KPMG.

Our Locations:

We are open to talk to talent across the country but our core hub for this role is London.

This position will be hybrid.

With 20 sites across the UK, we can potentially facilitate office work, working from home, flexible hours, and part-time options. If you have a need for flexibility, please register and discuss this with our team.

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From role sharing and flexible start and finish times to home working, we'll try and support the flexible work patterns that best suit you.

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