Agile Consultant - Lean Portfolio Management

10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DN, United Kingdom, London SW1E 5DN, GB

Full-time

About us

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 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 4000 specialists in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport. Our people are strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers and technologists.

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

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Are you passionate about helping organisations deliver real value to customers?

Our Agile team are looking for an exceptional Lean Portfolio Management expert. You will help our clients design, implement, and optimise their Lean Portfolio Management function to ensure that their teams are delivering against their strategy. You’ll help across a range of areas including coaching executive leadership, designing and recommending agile tooling, implementing QBR and OKRs and driving the design and adoption across global businesses. Across all our sectors you’ll work with Executive Leadership, Portfolio Offices, Value Stream Leaders and other teams to help them deliver in a reliable, predictable, and valuable way.

Reports to: Head of Agile

You will have opportunity to:

• Manage and deliver large scale LPM transformation programmes
• Uplift our clients LPM capabilities by training and coaching them in embedding LPM; including in strategy and investment funding, portfolio operations and lean governance
• Work with senior leaders of large organisations to help them realise their strategic ambitions
• Help our clients run Quarterly Business Reviews and set OKRs for their organisation
• Implement tooling architecture which will align the organisation on strategy and execution, helping our clients’ leaders take decisions quickly
• Create thought leadership and be part of the LPM Capability team within PA that drives sales

About You:

• You have an in depth Portfolio Management, Change Management, Digital Transformation or Organisational Agility background
• You have worked with or implemented LPM in some form in your previous organisations
• You are comfortable facilitating workshops with stakeholders at all seniority levels, and can resolve conflict
• You have a strong understanding of Agile methodologies such as SAFe, Scrum at Scale, Kanban and others
• You have experience with Agile toolsets such as Clarity, Jira (and Jira align), Rally, Miro and others
• You come from a strong management consulting background

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application!

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.

Should you need any adjustments to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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