Managing Consultant - Public Services - Complex Procurement

PA Consulting; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and lifestyle perks

25 days annual leave plus additional days

Generous company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

PA share ownership

Job summary

PA Consulting is seeking a Managing Consultant to lead complex commercial programmes and deliver impactful solutions within the Public Services community in London, England. The ideal candidate will have a strong consulting background in public sectors and demonstrate tech-centric deal experience.

Benefits include health perks, 25 days annual leave, a generous pension scheme, and opportunities for community involvement. The position supports a hybrid working model, allowing flexibility in office and client site attendance.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering public-sector complex transactions under UK public procurement regulations.
• Ability to operate as a commercial business partner, beyond just a procurement lead.
• Experience with end-to-end commercial lifecycle management.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery of complex commercial programmes and large-scale procurements.
• Provide insight and challenge across complex commercial, contractual, and policy boundaries.
• Support practice growth through go-to-market activity and client demand alignment.

Skills

Consulting background

Tech-centric deal experience

Numeracy & VFM judgement

Stakeholder command

Job description

10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DN, United Kingdom, London SW1E 5DN, GB

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.

Why consider joining our Public Services community as a Managing Consultant?

• Join a team where you're trusted to shape your own path, manage your time, and influence real change for our clients and communities.
• Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust‑based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity.
• Be part of a team actively shaping the Public Services sector and tackling issues that impact our everyday lives.
• Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative community through knowledge‑sharing and peer‑level support, coaching and mentoring.

What You’ll Do

• Lead delivery of complex commercial programmes
  • Shape, lead and deliver large‑scale procurements, commercial strategies and transactions across UK central government and arm’s‑length bodies.
• Drive tangible impact for clients
  • Provide insight, challenge and structure across complex commercial, contractual, sourcing and supplier‑management activities.
  • Help clients solve problems that span commercial, operational and policy boundaries.
• Develop propositions and support practice growth
  • Contribute to go‑to‑market activity and help evolve our PS commercial offerings in line with client demand and market trends.

What You’ll Need

• Consulting background delivering public‑sector complex transactions under UK public procurement regulations; able to operate as commercial business partner not just as a “procurement lead”.
• Tech‑centric deal experience: Outsourcing, platforms/ERP, telecoms/emergency communications, or analogous “novel tech” procurements.
• End‑to‑end commercial lifecycle: Business case shaping, ITT and market engagement, evaluation design, negotiation, contract award, and mobilisation/implementation support.
• Numeracy & VFM judgement: Can design incentive‑compatible evaluations, quantify ROI, and structure performance regimes suppliers will sign up to and excel against.
• Stakeholder command: Comfortable with commercial directors, procurement lawyers, SROs, programme directors, technical leads, and supplier execs.

Benefits

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family.
• 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).

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 client site.

Adjustments or Accommodations

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

Equality and Inclusion

We are 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 by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.