Director - London, United Kingdom - Davies - Consulting Division

Description

Job Description

We are the consulting division of Davies, accelerating business, technology and people performance across financial services including banking, asset and wealth management, insurance and other highly regulated industries.

We are currently seeking a Director to join our team on a permanent basis within our Asset & Wealth Management practice in London.

The opportunity:

The Director will be a motivated, self-starter with a credible and proven track-record in the leadership of delivery programmes and projects in the wealth/retail investment sector.

The Director will act as a senior and experienced member of the Asset & Wealth Management consulting team in order to:

You will:

• Lead client engagements and ensure they are run to a high professional standard, meet agreed client success criteria, are performed efficiently and are profitable.
• Develop strong relationships with clients and prospects.
• Professionally network successfully and present with credibility.
• Develop, lead and support opportunities, pitches and proposals.
• Originate opportunities that lead to delivered revenue against an agreed revenue and margin target.
• Develop and lead existing and new client accounts.
• Lead the development of new ideas, IP and thinking, particularly relating to programme delivery.
• Support, develop and improve internal processes.
• Contribute to the development of the consulting practice propositions (especially those related to implementation and delivery).
• Participate appropriately in internal consultancy practice management.
• Act as a line manager, mentor and motivator to less experienced consulting team members.
• Potentially (over time) give presentations on subjects of expertise and be seen as an expert in delivery related specialisms (own choice).
• Act as an ambassador for the practice and the firm at industry events.
• Identify and perform activities that lead to the growth of the consulting practice and the firm overall.

Your experience:

Capabilities required to do the role:

• Strong track record of leading large and/or complex business and technology change programmes and projects.
• Must have wealth management and delivery experience.
• Ability to connect and communicate with C-level and executive stakeholders.
• Excellent vendor management and influencing skills.
• High quotient of emotional intelligence / balance.
• Self-drive and personal ambition to work under a full and steady workload.
• Strong relationship building/maintaining skills with an effective consulting approach.
• Self-competence with MS Office suite.
• Ability and flexibility for occasional work-related travel.

About Us

What's important to you is what matters to us...

We are straight-forward, adaptable and outcomes-focused. We build affinity, work with integrity and we always do what is right for our clients

• Our core principles of Expertise, Leadership and Teamwork underline the Davies values of:
• We are connected
• We are dynamic
• We are innovated
• We succeed together

We live these values by ...

• Caring for the health and well-being of our colleagues.
• Increasing diversity and inclusion within our workforce.
• Encouraging and accommodating flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
• Creating a culture centred on interesting, complex, and challenging work and celebrating success.
• Enjoying a fun, friendly, supportive, and sociable team-based environment.
• Supporting performance driven career progression and providing access to professional skills enhancement via internal learning programs.
• Recognising and celebrating the individual contributions of our colleagues.
• Championing autonomy and empowerment of all our colleagues.

And if that wasn't enough...

Rewarding success and hard work

• We offer a competitive basic salary and annual bonus based on performance.

Benefits package includes:

• Competitive Employee Referral Program
• Private healthcare via Bupa
• Health cash back plan via BHSF
• Generous annual leave plan
• Company contribution to pension
• Life assurance
• Season ticket loan
• Competitive Employee Referral Program

Inclusion and Diversity

Our Approach – At Davies we welcome different perspectives, support each other's ambitions, and grow together. We work to build an Inclusive Culture where everyone can succeed.

We value the differences and benefits that a diverse workforce brings to the business. We do not discriminate on the grounds of any differentiating factor and embrace the differences which make people unique.

Actioned through – Davies colleagues will deliver DEI though both local and global actions. It is recognised that different geographies have different cultures, employment legislation and hold alternative views. At Davies, we are committed to building an Inclusive Culture through DEI, and we are respectful of opposing views held to the company's position.