Organizational Agility Consultant

Organizational Agility Consultant

Do you crave collaboration and love creating insights that help organizations improve their agility in response to a rapidly changing market? Are you ready to roll up your sleeves with clients and cultivate/plan/manage and coach in an environment that’s ready to be changed? We are looking for innovative thinkers to join our fast-growing Transformation team. The work will be primarily focused on helping organizations deliver major change and adopt agile ways of working to achieve strategic goals more quickly and effectively.

This role requires you to:

• Engage with clients using scaling frameworks and agile methodologies including SAFe, LeSS, [email protected] and its application to programmes

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

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

• Deliver end-to-end agile projects including managing Agile ceremonies (scrum teams, PI planning, etc.)

• Experience in coaching teams to adopt Agile ways of working

• 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.

Do you want to help some of the biggest private and public sector organisations to use public cloud services to improve their businesses and do you have experience leading organisations to successfully adopt AWS, Azure or GCP offerings?

As a Consultant at PA you’ll be given:

• The opportunity to participate in major transformation programmes
• The responsibility for leading workstreams and assignment teams
• The chance to affect real change in organisations through applying organisational and cultural change management techniques PA offers a career in consulting,- a stake in our firm and an environment where individuals and ideas matter

What we are looking for:

• Minimum 5 years of external consulting experience or other relevant experience related to successful delivery of IT change and transformation
• Experience in driving and embedding organization-wide transformations
• 3-5 years experience delivering agile projects, e.g.
• Working within Scrum teams (including Scrum Master experience)
• Co-creating, collaborating and innovating with Agile teams
• Delivering quality solutions and iterating to improve them
• Applying Agile in the wider organization in addition to IT
•  Ability to articulate the benefits of agile and organizational agility, in regards to people, process and technology, to senior business and technology stakeholders
• Experience in one of our focus industries (Health and Life Sciences, Energy and Utilities, Consumer Goods,)
• Strong proficiency with MS Office – particularly PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills

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 skillsets. 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.

We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on [email protected]