Senior Manager - Operational Excellence Consulting FTC ( 2 years)

BDO UK LLP; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading accountancy and business advisory firm is seeking a Senior Project Manager to support multiple projects and manage client relationships. The role focuses on enhancing business operations by implementing efficient project methodologies and managing teams across various sectors. The ideal candidate will hold relevant qualifications and possess strong leadership and client-facing skills, contributing to the firm's success in driving client projects.

Qualifications

• Experience managing projects and leading teams.
• Client-facing experience is essential.
• Commercial sector experience relevant to BDO clients.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of multiple projects and project reviews.
• Build excellent client relationships and assist with strategy.
• Manage various project-related engagements across sectors.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Client Relations

Education

Project Management qualification (PRINCE2, APM, PMP, or Agile)

Tools

MS Project

Job description

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions businesses need to navigate today’s changing world.

Our clients are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high growth businesses that fuel the economy - and the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll help you succeed

Our clients trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with clients and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who can work pro-actively, managing your own tasks, but you’ll also be confident collaborating with others, communicating regularly with senior managers, Directors, and BDO’s Partners to enable us to serve our clients effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to our clients.

Our Operational Excellence consulting practice assists organisations in enhancing efficiency, reducing costs, and improving performance. We optimise financial, operational, and strategic processes to ensure resource efficiency. Through business process optimisation, we streamline workflows, remove inefficiencies, and implement automation. We collaborate with clients to apply data-driven analysis and lean methodologies for optimising workflows, facilitating better decision-making, and promoting effective operations. Additionally, we work to establish a culture of continuous improvement.

Transformation initiatives are often challenging to implement, and incomplete execution can negate potential benefits. Through enterprise programme and project management, we ensure the successful delivery of strategic initiatives. By integrating these capabilities, we assist businesses in achieving sustainable operational excellence and long-term success, enabling them to remain competitive in a rapidly evolving market. We strive to ensure that transformation initiatives are both effective and enduring.

As a Senior Project Manager you'll support the delivery of multiple projects and project reviews in line with BDO’s defined methodologies. You will also support our Partner and Management team to build excellent client relationships, assist with our strategy and help drive marketing and business development projects. The primary focus of this role will be managing a variety of project related engagements across different sectors clients across the UK.

You'll be someone with:

• A Project Management related qualification such as PRINCE 2, APM, PMP and/or Agile

• MS Project or similar planning tool is essential

• Good knowledge of Project Management Office setup and responsibilities

• Programme, project management tool experience would be desirable

• Hands on responsibility and experience of managing projects and leading teams

• Experience of working in customer or client-facing roles

• Commercial sector experience appropriate to BDO clients

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer everyone the opportunity to work in ways that suit them, their teams, and the task in hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

We can provide the best support for our clients and people when we’re working side by side. Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for our clients and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in them. Across 17 UK locations, we are 6,500 unique minds coming together to help our clients reach their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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