Principal Consultant - Programme

Transform Together Consulting; London; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job description

Job Description

Who Are Transform Together

Our mission is to enable people to live and work to their greatest potential. As a consultancy full of business and technology transformation specialists who share the same values, attitude and work ethic, we believe that we do our best work with clients when we collaborate together as equals, are truly valued and your happiness is put at the forefront of our operating model.

At Transform Together we help clients define, design, assess and critically, deliver their transformation initiatives. We are versatile in our approach, putting relevance at the centre of our delivery model. We bring a fresh, innovative viewpoint on how to approach consultancy which creates a competitive advantage.

We are delivery focused, often using multi-disciplinary teams who accelerate, de-risk and shorten the pathway to value creation.

The Role

As part of the Transform Together Consulting team, you will be engaging with industry-leading companies at an operational and strategic level. You will be working with senior leaders and CxOs as a strategic partner to help provide structure, knowledge, and insight into the best methods to deliver their transformation agenda. This typically involves taking a business objective from discovery through to adoption into BAU, utilising a combination of agile and traditional project and change management techniques.

We put a large focus on internal advocacy; you will get real responsibility and accountability from the outset. You tell us how far you want to go; it's our job to get you there.

About You

To succeed in this role, you’ll be able to evidence:

• A passion for leading projects, programmes, or portfolio delivery for clients and customers
• Strong understanding of agile ways of working and cadences to support collaboration between business and technology teams
• Capability to design and implement Scrum agile practices from a standing start; understanding of agile tooling such as JIRA and Confluence is a necessity.
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills
• Financial Services experience in Wealth Management, Investments, Asset Management, or Insurance
• A natural collaborative approach to your work, able to bring consensus within challenging stakeholder groups
• Deep understanding of the mechanisms and tools required to manage successful delivery from both traditional and agile perspectives
• Enthusiasm and comprehensive understanding of the business and modern technological landscape and an ability to translate that knowledge to solve client problems
• Excellent understanding of RAID and cross-functional dependency management
• A consultative approach and toolkit in managing clients
• A positive, can-do attitude, strong team ethos, and ability to work in an entrepreneurial environment
• Aligned with and believe in the Transform Together values

Benefits and Perks

• Shareholding in Transform Together
• Training opportunities and incentives; improving yourself through experience and knowledge is one of Transform Together's top priorities.
• Industry-leading health and wellbeing plan
• Life Assurance (4 x annual salary)
• 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive pension scheme
• Hybrid working - we believe in work-life balance
• An industry-leading referral scheme with no limits on the number of referrals
• Flexible holiday buy/sell option
• Mentoring scheme
• A variety of social events
• Multiple office locations to enable easy travel to office infrastructure across the UK