Project, Programme, Portfolio Manager – Digital Transformation (Financial Services)

PA Consulting; Greater London; Vor Ort; GBP 70.000 - 105.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Private healthcare

25 days annual leave

Company pension scheme

Bonus potential

Zusammenfassung

PA Consulting is seeking experienced Delivery professionals to join their Centre of Excellence for programme and portfolio capability. The team delivers high-value outcomes for clients, combining strategy, technology and change management to drive measurable business results.

The role spans complex transformations across banking, insurance, wealth management and financial market infrastructure, with opportunities to shape digital customer journeys and cloud-enabled platforms.

Qualifikationen

• Experience delivering large-scale digital transformation programmes.
• Experience delivering technology-enabled change across financial services.
• Leading digital product, platform or customer experience transformation initiatives.
• Delivering data, analytics, AI or automation programmes with measurable outcomes.
• Managing complex technology delivery involving cloud, applications, infrastructure or platform modernisation.

Aufgaben

• Lead delivery across critical programmes and portfolios for clients.
• Develop meaningful partnerships with client teams and drive delivery excellence.
• Translate business strategy into executable transformation roadmaps and delivery plans.
• Provide advisory support and build delivery capability within client organisations.

Kenntnisse

Digital Transformation

Data & AI Transformation

Cloud Migration

Agile at Scale

Stakeholder Management

Delivery Leadership

Cross-Functional Collaboration

Client-facing

Jobbeschreibung

• 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

Our Delivery Team is PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme and portfolio capability. The team has a great reputation for realising high value outcomes for our clients by supporting and leading delivery across the most critical projects, programmes and portfolios. Developing meaningful and long-standing partnerships with our clients, the team also has an extensive track record of providing crucial advisory services and building delivery capability and delivery excellence for client teams at all levels.

Our growing team covers the full spectrum of delivery expertise. Our experience ranges from supporting highly complex business transformations, to delivering infrastructure and engineering projects, through to providing deep technical expertise on IT and technology driven change. We are able to provide deep sector insight and bring fresh perspectives to delivery challenges.

Some example of our exciting assignments include:

• Leading a Tier 1 UK bank through a major digital and agile transformation programme
• Delivering cloud and platform modernisation for a leading financial institution
• Supporting a wealth manager to implement AI-enabled operational improvements
• Transforming digital customer journeys and omnichannel experiences for a major insurer
• Leading payments and core technology modernisation programmes across banking and market infrastructure clients

Qualifications

We are looking for candidates with the potential to become future leaders within the firm. Our Delivery team goes far beyond traditional programme management. We are seeking individuals who combine outstanding delivery capability with deep expertise in digital and technology-enabled transformation within Financial Services.

The strongest candidates will bring experience of helping financial institutions modernise their businesses through digital, data and technology-enabled change, whilst maintaining a relentless focus on business outcomes, customer value and transformation delivery.

We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in one or more of:

• Digital Transformation and Operating Model Change
• Data and AI Transformation
• Digital Customer Experience and Customer Journeys
• Cloud Migration and Cloud-Native Transformation
• Payments Modernisation and Financial Market Infrastructure
• Core Platform and Legacy Technology Modernisation
• Digital Products and Channels
• Agile at Scale and Product Operating Models
• Wealth, Asset Management, Banking or Insurance Digital Transformation

We would expect you to demonstrate experience in at least three of the following:

• Leading large-scale digital transformation programmes from strategy through to implementation and value realisation
• Delivering complex technology-enabled change across banking, insurance, wealth management or financial market infrastructure organisations
• Leading digital product, platform or customer experience transformation initiatives
• Delivering data, analytics, AI or automation programmes that drive measurable business outcomes
• Managing complex technology delivery involving cloud, applications, infrastructure or platform modernisation
• Establishing agile delivery models, product organisations or scaled agile ways of working
• Leading multi-disciplinary teams including business, technology, data and architecture stakeholders
• Translating business strategy into executable transformation roadmaps and delivery plans
• Delivering transformation in highly regulated environments whilst balancing innovation and risk
• Building client capability through PMOs, Transformation Offices and delivery excellence functions

General skills and experience:

• Ability to engage credibly with business and technology executives
• Experience delivering measurable benefits and business outcomes
• Outstanding stakeholder management and influencing skills
• Ability to operate effectively in ambiguous, fast-changing environments
• Commercial awareness and consulting experience
• Passion for innovation, technology and helping clients solve complex challenges

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 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.