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<div class="mds-edited-text mds-font-body-copy-bulk"><p><b>About the team</b></p><p></p><p>PwC Consulting helps organisations to work smarter and grow faster. Together with PwC Operate, who deliver large operational and managed service solutions, our diverse Portfolio and Programme Management (PPM) team provides the core capabilities in programme and project management, business analysis, project management office and people centred change.  Collectively, we partner with our clients to mobilise, transform and run their portfolio, programmes and projects successfully under our Change as a Service (CaaS) offering. </p><p></p><p><b>Who we are looking for </b></p><p></p><p>Managers to scale and future-proof our CaaS delivery capability, enabling us to provide the ‘best in class’ transformation delivery across all our client opportunities.</p><p></p><p>Our clients across Financial Services are undergoing significant business and technology-enabled transformation, driven by a range of factors including deals, customer expectations, transitioning to new ways of working post Covid-19, regulation and cost reduction ambitions. </p><p></p><p>These clients are looking to work in partnership with us to run such a portfolio of significant projects and programmes in parallel, providing the skills to manage multiple change initiatives and develop an agile working environment, together with technology solutions and automation.</p><p></p><p>We are seeking Managers within the team to be key and integral PwC engagement team members, producing high quality deliverables and taking responsibility for managing discrete elements of the CaaS programme and/or engagement.     </p><p></p><p>The role will play a supporting role in developing our PPM capabilities, our people and the growth of our CaaS industry sector and hybrid teams (on-shore / near-shore / off-shore) in both physical and virtual environments. </p><p></p><p><b>About the role </b></p><p>Successful candidates will be responsible for:  </p><ul><li><p>Being responsible for elements of PwC CaaS engagements on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the engagement lead, managing the team and taking responsibility for delivery, risk and quality and client relationships.</p></li><li><p>Developing deep technical expertise in complex portfolio or programme environments and to develop broader programme management expertise in delivery work streams.  </p></li><li><p>Contributing towards and being responsible for elements of the PPM capability group and people development, business development and supporting the growth of our priority industry sectors and market.</p></li><li><p>Supporting people, including people management of junior staff and day-to-day line  management on engagements. </p></li><li><p>Supporting the professional development of colleagues through engagements and internal initiatives.  </p></li></ul><p></p><p><b>Essential skills needed for the role  </b></p><ul><li><p>Strong experience and knowledge of the Financial Services industry.  </p></li><li><p>Consulting experience from a consulting or professional services environment.  </p></li><li><p>Relevant experience of programme, portfolio or project management in a delivery environment.  </p></li><li><p>Experience of the full PPM lifecycle and an understanding of how the identification of strategic objectives translates into planning and executing complex programmes of work.  </p></li><li><p>Experience of managing teams and supporting the development of team performance. </p></li><li><p>Previous experience of working within a large programme and a hybrid team (on-shore / near-shore / off-shore) in a Managed Service or delivery function.</p></li><li><p>Able to articulate the value that programme, portfolio, project management and PMO can bring to a large and/or complex engagement.  </p></li><li><p>Significant experience of at least three aspects of Project Management / PMO services, in particular:</p><ul><li><p>Planning – Ability to develop a multi-workstream portfolio / programme plan using MS project or other relevant tool,  including critical path, resource management and reporting.  </p></li><li><p>Governance – Ability to assess, develop and ultimately strengthen the governance within a programme or portfolio environment, with clear understanding of the relevant capabilities required to ensure it is fit for purpose.  </p></li><li><p>Financial Management – Demonstrate a good understanding of the importance of financial management and be able to define an  approach to management within the portfolio / programme and be able to track financials and financial benefits in line with this agreed approach. </p></li></ul></li><li><p>General familiarity with a further 3 or more PMO services (e.g. stakeholder management, reporting, change control, configuration management, benefits management, resource management).  </p></li><li><p>APMP, PRINCE2, P3O, Managing Successful Programmes, Management of Portfolios, Management of Risk, or PMI qualification</p></li></ul><br /><p><strong>Consulting</strong><br />In Consulting we deliver practical, far-sighted advice that gets straight to the heart of clients&rsquo; business issues and delivers amazing results by helping our clients improve the way they operate, reduce costs, manage risks, leverage talent or fundamentally change the way they do business, the work you do will be all about helping organisations of all shapes and sizes work smarter and grow faster. You could find yourself working with household names in a diverse range of industries &ndash; everyone from big-name broadcasters and high-street banks to multinational telecoms operators and energy companies.<br /><br /><strong>The skills we look for in future employees</strong><br />All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, &lsquo;The PwC Professional&rsquo; and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.</p><p>Learn more here: <a href="https://www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply" rel="no-follow">www.pwc.com/uk/careers/experienced/apply</a><br /><br /><strong>The Deal</strong><br />We want all of our people to feel empowered to be the best that they can be, which is why we have &lsquo;The Deal&rsquo;.<br />Find out more about our firmwide Employee Value Proposition: <a href="https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html" rel="no-follow">https://www.pwc.co.uk/careers/about-us/the-new-deal.html</a><br /><br /><strong>Diversity</strong><br />Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.</p><p>We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.</p><p><a href="https://www.pwc.com/uk/diversity" rel="no-follow">www.pwc.com/uk/diversity</a></p><img src="https://www.applytracking.com/tp/rj6-MKC1F.J-K" rel="no-follow" />