Programme Delivery Consultant (Project Manager)

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Programme Delivery Consultant (Project Manager)Altus, an Equisoft, owned company, was founded in 2005 on the belief that the Financial Services could be more efficient with better technology. Altus has grown to become a recognised expert in the Financial Services market.Based in the centre of Bath, we now employ around 100 people in the UK and are part of a larger group employing around 800 people worldwide.The Programme Delivery Consultant will provide project management expertise to our clients and Consulting project teams, manage active engagements and client accounts, and help to develop new business. As well as having excellent delivery skills, this role requires someone ambitious, innovative, hard working and commercially minded. They will be highly influential in the development of Programme Delivery strategy, playing a key role in the delivery of significant growth plans for this as a core area of Altus Consulting over the next few years.A DAY IN YOUR LIFETo deliver client engagements

• Deliver consultancy engagements for Altus’s top-tier FS customers, providing project management /PMO expertise
• Work as part of a team or independently engaging with senior clients
• Utilisation expectation is ~75%

To own and manage client accounts where associates are deployed

• Undertake regular service reviews and production of dashboards to the client
• Manage and support deployed associates, using Altus’s APEX Programme Delivery framework

To develop Programme Delivery strategy, proposition and service offerings

• To be part of a small Programme Delivery management team, innovating and setting strategy
• To take responsibility for a group of APEX delivery services, developing and continuously improving them
• Develop marketing collateral and tools to support the services

To support the development of new business

• Identify business development opportunities through existing accounts, consulting engagements and own network
• Shape proposals and bids based upon Altus’s Programme Delivery Services and Consulting industry models / toolkit
• Produce thought leadership and appear in the press

To develop the Altus Associate network

• Identify, validate credibility, building relationships with, and referring potential associates
• Contribute to and maintain the associate register

Experience And Skills

• 10+ years hands-on and proven experience of delivering change in Financial Services.
• A solid understanding of, and track-record in, the financial services industry
• Proficiency in change delivery methodology and practice
• Experience and solid understanding of Financial Services business & IT operations and change delivery
• Extremely thorough, inquisitive and hard working behaviours
• Excellent people and communication skills, able to confidently converse at Board level, with a track record of building strong business relationships
• Innovative and with a strong ability to articulate ideas, bringing them to life visually and presenting them formally to clients
• Understanding of IT fundamentals and different categories of FS systems
• Genuine passion and enthusiasm to make a difference for Altus, and to grow and develop Programme Delivery
• A history of building strong relationships with senior stakeholders
• A willingness to travel and undertake varying roles

In return you can expect

• A variety of challenging assignments for a portfolio of prestigious financial services clients
• To work in a fast-moving environment often at the pioneering edge of FS industry change
• The chance to work for and shape an exciting, dynamic and growing consultancy business
• To become a skilled Project Management consultant
• To enhance your knowledge of the FS sector and become a recognised expert
• Support from a friendly team of highly-experienced business and technical consultants
• The opportunity to influence and develop our industry recognised change approach
• Very flexible working arrangements – candidates must be able to work in the Bath office (1 day per month) and be willing to travel to client site as needed across the UK
• Employee benefits including discretionary bonus, Private Medical Insurance, Life Insurance, Pension (matched contributions) and more

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