Agile Transformation Consultant

PA Consulting

Cheadle Heath, Borough of Stockport, United Kingdom

4d ago

About us

We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future in a technology-driven world.

As strategies, technologies and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough use of technologies to progress further, faster.

Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

An innovation and transformation consultancy, we are over 3,200 specialists in consumer, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government, health and life sciences, manufacturing, and transport.

Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

We operate globally from offices across the UK, US, Europe, and the Nordics.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Job Description

Would you like to be part of an inspiring global team that leads the way in Agile consulting? At PA Consulting, we help the largest and most complex organisations on one end of the spectrum to start-ups wanting to scale at pace at the other.

We are the leading consultancy and thought leaders in organisational agility with our clients spanning across the UK and internationally.

As such, we have unrivalled experience, collateral and insight. We have accelerated drug development, helped transform the world to green energy, catapulted a fintech of 400 people into the S&P500 and reimagined visas and immigration.

We have taken business agility to shipping companies and improved manufacturing quality whilst reducing time to market. That’s just a few of over 200 incredibly inspiring assignments that we have delivered!

We are now looking for exceptional Agile Transformation experts , who have helped organisations systemically improve their ability to deliver change at the pace they need to succeed.

Candidates should be experienced in operating model design, training and coaching teams to blend the right Agile, Lean, Design Thinking, DevOps and Kanban practices to address an organisations objectives

By collaborating with your colleagues and providing leadership and coaching within Agile principles, you will manage some of our most exciting projects across our portfolio of FTSE100, Fortune 500 and government clients.

It’s your chance to be part of our vision; to build the best Agile consultancy in the world. You will have the opportunity to :

Design best-in-class consultancy solutions that set us apart from our competition

Take early opportunities during the sales lifecycle and perform a variety of roles across the whole change lifecycle

Provide coaching and training services that will ensure we achieve our goals

Combine your cross-functional skills in project and programme management to create scope for continuous improvement

Be part of an exceptionally vibrant Agile community.

Our Agile capability will help you to drive your career forward, in all aspects of agility, as it applies to organisations large and small.

With your flexibility and ability to travel to our major clients, we can help you grow alongside our diverse team of experts.

It’s your chance to be part of our vision; to build the best Agile consultancy in the world.

You must have :

A minimum of 2 years’ recent and relevant consulting experience ideally from a leading consultancy firm

A minimum of 2 years’ operational experience working within an Agile team delivering, full lifecycle, Agile Transformation programmes

Exceptional interpersonal skills to build strong relationships with top-level stakeholders

Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills

Excellent written skills

Exceptional stakeholder management skills

Flexibility to travel both nationally and internationally to our clients

A desire to develop PA’s internal Agile Capability as well as working with our clients.

You will have some, if not all, of the following :

Experience leading multiple Agile teams (e.g. using Scrum of Scrums, as an RTE or Kanban Lead)

An understanding of scaling frameworks including SAFe, LeSS, Scrum Scale and its application to programmes and portfolios

Experience in coaching teams to adopt Agile ways of working

Experience in Product Management, for example as Product Owner with accountabilities for managing a product end-to-end;

developing value propositions through growth, maturity and decline

Experience supporting an organisation move from Project to Product, developing and maturing a Product Management capability

A thorough understanding of different delivery models from waterfall, to iterative, to continuous delivery within high profile engagements

An ability to oversee transformation backlog creation, refinement and prioritisation with well-defined acceptance criteria

Experience of facilitating team participation in collaborative planning activities (such as PI Planning)

A robust understanding of Lean principles and their application to industry

An understanding of Lean Portfolio Management

Portfolio level experience. A proven track record of delivering complex IT and technology projects using Agile methodologies

Experience of deploying business change techniques resulting in sustainable changes to behaviours.

You may also have :

Experience supporting the introduction of Design Thinking practices into teams

Experience in coaching leaders to adopt agile ways of working and a servant leadership mindset

Experience of rescuing complex programmes, baselining and understanding key metrics and prioritising remediation plans

Knowledge of Agile procurement practices and experience of managing the commercial side of project delivery

Training qualifications in a scaling framework such as SAFe SPC or Certified Kanban Management Professional.

Experience of running consulting assignment teams.

Additional Information

Benefits

Private medical insurance

Travel allowance

25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days

Company pension scheme

Annual performance-based bonus

Life and Income protection insurance

Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

Additional optional benefits (Dental, critical illness, spouse / partner life assurance)

Inclusion & Diversity

We believe that diversity makes us a stronger firm and look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skill sets.

This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results.

We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

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