Senior Consultant - Reading, United Kingdom - CPS

CPS

Verified Company

Reading, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are a long established and highly respected Microsoft Gold Partner with an extensive portfolio of high-profile clients that is continuing to grow.

Due to our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Consultant who is experienced in ensuring successful definition and delivery of Microsoft-based solutions ensuring time, cost and quality expectations are successfully achieved.

The focus of the role is to lead client engagements by providing technical thought leadership ensuring that the business challenges of the client are understood, and that the technology is applied appropriately to overcome the challenges.

It is our mission to continue growing our portfolio, providing support and guidance to ensure clients are delighted with our service.

We deliver enterprise solutions, but also keep a keen eye on the future strategic needs of our clients to ensure our solutions our future proofed.

Further to this CPS and Microsoft are driving sustainment within businesses we work with; therefore, adoption and change management is another key aspect of our delivery.

Requirements:

An experienced technical expert with excellent consultative skills able to communicate with all levels and areas of an organisation.
A selfstarter, keen to further develop both their personal and the company's knowledge and skillset, with a 'make it happen' attitude.
Able to demonstrate a proven commercial awareness enabling them to grow the relationship with a client and identify new opportunities whilst they are working on client engagements.
Able to manage their own time within the commercial aspects of engagements to ensure that all activities are delivered to high quality, on time and within budget.
Able to demonstrate a proven ability to deliver projects based on a range of Microsoft based technologies to a broad client base, ensuring that the solutions take into consideration technical strategy, successful adoption, longterm sustainability and commercial awareness.
Able to ensure that clients are delighted by their experience when engaging with CPS.
Able to design solutions to the highest level and that meet the expectations of clients in every respect.

CPS have clients across the UK and travel is required at times, with occasional overseas assignments. This is balanced by an ability to work from home for some of the time.

Key Responsibilities:

Ability to translate business requirements into technical requirements and technical implementation into business benefit.

Experience in Microsoft programs such as Catalyst.

Undertaking the following requirements gathering activities:

Facilitation of requirements gathering workshops with C-level stakeholders downwards
Management of the expectations of clients involved in workshops
Documenting the findings of workshops in the form of current state assessments, vision, and strategy recommendations
Build high

- and low
- level solution design documentation that can be handed over to a delivery team to implement

Support the growth of knowledge and skills within CPS by:

Evangelising the latest technologies
Building demonstrations of the latest technology
Sharing the knowledge internally within CPS

Delivering a professional, customer focused and high performing solution design service

Ensuring that all content provided to customers is on the highest quality and has been through the internal quality assurance checks before being published

Contributing to the internal processes and standards to ensure that the outcome of engagements is always improving

Passing exams required for CPS to achieve recognition from Microsoft.

Promoting CPS as an expert source of knowledge regarding the latest technologies through blogs, user groups, conferences, etc

Benefits
- £5000 annual car allowance

9 Day Fortnight
Private Medical Insurance with Vitality Health
Medical Cash Plan with Medicash
Income Protection & Life Insurance with YuLife
EV Car Scheme
Workplace Pension with Nest
Employee Assistance Programme via Health Assured
25 days holiday increasing to 26 days after 1 year, to 27 days after 2 years and to 28 days after 5 years
Holiday Exchange Scheme: buy up to 10 days per annum and sell/carry over up to 5 days
Take your Birthday off

In addition we offer, among others, the following cultural benefits

Landmark membership gives you access to dozens of coworking locations around the country
Quarterly and annual star performer awards, voted for by your peers and colleagues
Monthly spot awards where colleagues can nominate you for exceptional performance
Annual professional training budget to support your Personal Development Plan
Monthly 'Glint' survey to assess colleagues' engagement levels
Quarterly company meetings with associated social/team building events
Workplace pension scheme with Employer contributions beyond legislated minimum
Regular, meaningful 121s and performance meetings, at least qua