Deloitte, Technology Consulting, Solution Development and Integration, Public Sector, Senior Manager, London
Role description
Delivery is one of the core Service Areas in Technology Consulting at Deloitte, and provides clients with the advice and delivery support that they need in their complex technology programmes. Whether it is structuring, assuring, managing, delivering or setting up solutions we need the very best people to join us and strengthen our team even further. That is where you come in!
Delivery provides a range of services to help our Clients deliver business driven, technology-enabled change across their organisation. We help our Clients in many different ways:
- Define, establish and run their most complex technology-enabled change programmes
- Manage their portfolios of technology projects and programmes
- Independently assure their in-flight projects and programmes
- Recover their troubled projects and programmes
- Define, establish and run projects to select technology products or services
- Advise them on building their in-house technology delivery capability
We work across all aspects of technology delivery including digital solutions, package integration, systems integration, custom development and infrastructure.
Our Technology Practice
Technology is an exciting and thriving area of our consulting practice. We have a diverse practice of over 700 practitioners working around the UK on challenging engagements across a wide portfolio of clients. Our breadth and depth of technical capabilities enable us to be both trusted advisors and implementation partners.
Responsibilities
As a Deloitte Senior Manager not only will you lead teams and client engagement projects, you will also play a key role in the internal and market-facing growth of Delivery through leading development activities such as:
- Leading and owning important components of propositions
- Managing the development of bid proposals
- Graduate and experienced hire recruitment
- Team development activities
In your time in grade, you can expect to be both technically and intellectually challenged.
- As a Manager, you will quickly apply your skills and experience at client sites. You will lead other Deloitte practitioners and take responsibility for people development.
- As a Manager, you will develop your sales activities and deepen your already strong industry alignment in preparation for more senior positions and future promotion in the firm.
- You will have a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them; have a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
Requirements
We want people who will embody technology delivery at Deloitte Consulting - people who understand the connection between the business problem and the technology solution and have the professional and personal skills to make a real difference to our Clients.
As such, candidates should be able to demonstrate experience of successfully leading teams in one or more of the following areas:
- Programme or project management in a technology environment
- Programme/Project Management Office in a technology environment
- Technology Portfolio Management Procurement of technology solutions or services
- Managing 3rd party organisations or vendors within a technology programme
- Managing near-shore and off-shore teams within a technology programme
- Solutions that transform the customer experience e.g. digital solutions
- Application design/Application development and configuration
- Systems Integration and software development
- Middleware development
- IT Testing
In addition, you will also have strong communication and stakeholder management skills and be able to demonstrate proactive management of your career and professional development to-date.
All candidates must have full travel mobility and the right to live and work in the UK. A good graduate degree (1st or Upper Second) is required combined with post-graduate experience in one or more of the following industries or related consulting field:
- Public Sector
- Local/ National Government
- Public Services
We are Consulting
Three core competency areas make up our Consulting service line:
- Technology
- Strategy & Operations
- Human Capital
We exist to solve complex problems
Our consultants are renowned for their straightforward approach to solving some of the world’s largest and most complex business challenges. With a team of over 3,000, each of us is energised by the challenge a seemingly inscrutable problem presents. Our distinctiveness lies in our refusal to accept a problem at face value - we draw on the depth of our shared insight to ask the right questions, and it’s these questions that uncover answers - answers with impact.
We are committed to collaboration
Our role is to unlock potential for growth and innovation. We believe this requires real collaboration ? with our own networks and with our clients. It’s why we commit to truly getting under the skin of our client’s needs, developing a full appreciation for their environment, goals and ambitions. We’re also unafraid to challenge. In so doing, we build long-term and trusted affinities.
We create long-term, sustainable impact
We often work hand-in-hand with our clients to help find the right solution and to help apply that solution. Our aim is to leave behind ambassadors who are equipped to continue the transformation we began. For us, it’s about embedding sustainable change, allowing the impact of our insight to be felt for a long time to come.
We offer a number of different career pathways
We offer three different career pathways at Deloitte, meaning that there are three different routes by which people can progress in Consulting. We provide variety regarding the career options available to you, assisting you to take career steps that fit your skills, talents and aspirations, and providing an environment where those choices can be discussed in meaningful and constructive career conversations.
The Consulting Career Paths are:
Consulting pathway ? pathway based around developing a broad consulting skillset alongside building expertise in a specific domain
Consulting Solutions pathway ? pathway where there is greater focus on building skills and deep expertise in a specific domain. Practitioners have a narrow focus, determined by their SME and type of contribution made
Consulting Services pathway ? pathway for people whose career is built around the delivery of managed services to clients (either internal or external)
About Deloitte
Deloitte offers integrated services that include Audit and Risk Advisory, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with global business and industry expertise to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
We deliver outstanding impact on the reputation and success of our clients, in the UK and globally. In pursuing this we contribute to a sustainable and prosperous society, and are firm believers in the positive impact business can and should have on the world it operates within.
At Deloitte we foster a collaborative culture where talented individuals can produce their best work. We value innovative thinking, diverse insights and a genuinely distinctive level of customer service through our expertise and professionalism.
We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture. We are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support agile working arrangements. We recognise that our people are juggling demanding careers with commitments and interests outside of work.
Hear from some of our people already working at Deloitte in agile ways.
We are proud to have received a special award for Best Innovation for our WorkAgility Time Out programme in the 2015 Top Employers for Working Families awards.