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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.

• Do you enjoy working on complex and challenging projects, programmes and portfolios, delivering real and meaningful value?
• Are you keen to work with client teams to build delivery capability and delivery excellence?
• Would you be motivated by working collaboratively with diverse project teams, often with a mix of both colleagues and clients?
• Would you like to help shape and secure some of Defence’s and wider Public Sector major spending commitments?
• Is being able to shape your own career pathway and support the development of others important to you?

If so, our Professional Services Team (PST) role could be for you!

We are a rapidly growing innovation and transformation consultancy that believes in the power of ingenuity to build a positive-human future in a technology-driven world. Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking with breakthrough-technologies to progress further, faster

The PST Team

The Professional Services Team (PST) is in high demand and experiencing repeated successes in delivering value and excellence for our clients who are within daily commuting range from home. Due to this success, we are expanding further across the UK.

PST make up part of PA’s core Delivery Team which is PA’s Centre of Excellence for all project, programme, and portfolio capability.

Within this core delivery team sits PST which works across Defence, major projects & infrastructure, transport, and public sector taking on client-facing roles on long-term assignments and working alongside consultancy teams.

We specialise in P3M, Project Controls, Defence and wider Public Sector Business Cases, Systems Engineering and Logistics, and we are looking to deepen and broaden these capabilities.

About You

To rise to the challenge of this Project, Programme/Portoflio Manager role, you will bring an academic background and P3M experience, ideally in major complex projects or technology programmes with exposure to Agile. You will have a strong delivery track record, with supporting PMO & Project Controls capability and use of tools/frameworks, preferably with qualifications such as Prince2, MSP or AgilePM. You will be an expert or will be happy to develop a deep expertise in a particular capability.

You will be keen to embrace continual training and development and will be able to develop effective business cases, possess strong analytical skills, be comfortable in taking data and turning it into digestible information, as well as being an excellent communicator. You will be happy to work on long-term assignments and build long-lasting, trusted relationships with key clients.

We are seeking to grow our team by recruiting talented individuals with experience across all types of projects, programmes and change.

We are looking for candidates with the potential to become future project and programme leaders, with skills and experience in one or more of the following areas:

• Experience of delivery in project and programme environments, with an understanding of P3M methodologies, processes, techniques and common challenges
• Experience of the MOD business case and Approvals process, specifically complex Cat A business cases
• A track record of realising business benefits and outcomes
• Ability to work across multiple levels of an organisation
• An aptitude for delivering creative and ingenious solutions

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

Find out more about Life at PA here.

We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.

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