principal Agile strategy & Transformation Consultant

Anson McCade

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 80,000 - 97,000

Full time

14 days+

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Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Generous pension scheme

Community and charity involvement

Share ownership

Tax efficient benefits

Job summary

A leading consultancy in financial services is seeking a Principal Agile Strategy and Transformation Consultant to drive agile transformations and enhance operational excellence. The role offers a salary between £80,000 and £97,000, complemented by a £5,900 car allowance and a 15% bonus. Candidates should have deep knowledge of the financial services market, experience in transformation management, and the ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders. The position is full-time, based in London with a hybrid model.

Qualifications

Experience in driving agile transformations in financial services.
Proven ability to manage stakeholders effectively during change.
Understanding of Lean Portfolio Management practices.

Responsibilities

Design solutions that drive outcomes within clients.
Re-wire client's businesses to enhance dynamism and value delivery.
Facilitate organisational strategy connection with practical operations.

Skills

Deep knowledge of financial services

Agile transformation experience

Business design expertise

Agile operating models

Exceptional communication skills

Product Management knowledge

Education

Training qualifications such as SAFe or Scrum@Scale

Job description

Principal Agile Strategy and Transformation Consultant - Financial Services

Salary: £80,000 - £97,000 (depending on experience) + £5,900 Car Allowance + 15% Bonus

Location: London - Hybrid

About Us

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 enduringenske results.

We are a team of strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists with deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

The Opportunity

Are you passionate about helping businesses deliver better outcomes, faster? Do you specialise in driving commercial performance and operational excellence? If you match this description and are passionate about what you do, we would love to hear from you.

We are a leading consultancy and thought leader in organisational agility. We’re looking for experts with the experience to lead clientsaston through an exciting journey to fundamentally transform their business to accelerate the creation of value. You will bring your expertise in strategy, business design and operating models, agile ways of working, product management, lean, and change management.

You will be part of an inspiring global team that leads the way in driving organisational agility across some of the most exciting brands in financial services across Banking, Payments, Wealth and Asset Management, Pensions, and Insurance. Our clients span.Rest. ...

What You’ll Do

Bring your passion, purpose, insight, and impact to design and embed solutions that drive tangible outcomes within clients
Fundamentally re‑wire a client's business to build a vibrant and dynamic place to work, accelerate the pace of change and the delivery of value
Focus on changing the skills and behaviours of organisationsPortuguese and their people at scale, enabling clients to achieve their goals, working in blended teams (doing it "our" "with clients" not "to clients")
Connect the client's organisational strategy to the practical work of portfolios and teams to deliver the right change at pace
Be part of an exceptionally vibrant agile community, working with Operational Excellence, Growth Strategy, Digital, People and Change practitioners to grow your broader skill set

Essential Skills and Experience

Market Sector Knowledge: Deep knowledge of the financial services market sector (e.g. banking, insurance, asset management, and payments) with ability to create solutions specific to a client's market context
Transformation Management: Experience shaping and leading all facets of an agile transformation at scale, such as driving quantitative and qualitative benefits tracking
Business Design and Operating Model: Experience applying business design and agile operating models to build lived structures that work end‑to‑end across a business
Agile Ways of Working: Experience helping executives and senior leaders understand, embrace, and adopt agile ways of working to inspire their teams
Shared Services and Operations: Understanding of how to drive at scale the interlock between engineering, shared services, and operations
Executive Enablement: Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills to bring senior leaders on a transformation journey
Education: Experience shaping, creating, and implementing agile content to educate, upskill, and enable organisational agility
Lean Portfolio Management (LPM): Applied expertise in LPM practices to help prohibits move from projects to products
Product Management: Experience in Product Lifecycle Management across all stages
Stakeholder Management: Experience helping critical enabling functions understand organisational agility and their role in its sustainable adoption
Training qualifications such as SAFe (including SPCT accreditation), LeSS or Scrum@Scale, Certified Kanban Management Professional
Experience introducing new regulatory focuses innovatively and improving quality (e.g. consumer duty)
Experience leading and running consulting assignment teams
Experience in Change Framework design and evolution as an organisation introduces or moves to agile ways of working