Senior Managing Consultant - London, United Kingdom - IMPOWER Consulting

IMPOWER Consulting

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Location:
London + UK, with travel required

Salary:
Starting from £80,000 per annum + bonus + competitive benefits

Working pattern:
Permanent, full time (40 hours per week)

We are seeking a Senior Manager with extensive experience of public sector consulting with technical knowledge of one or more of the following: housing, waste, transport and net zero place making.

About us

IMPOWER is the country's largest independent management consultancy, focussed exclusively on helping our public sector clients improve services for their local communities - and getting the best use of the public pound.

We understand that impactful and meaningful change cannot be solved sustainably through traditional, liner project management approaches.

Our unique EDGEWORK methodology provides our clients with the skills, techniques and mindset to collaboratively solve the complex problems they face - and we have shown that IMPOWER's way of approaching change has provided better outcomes for service users that have cost our clients less to deliver.

Our team of highly skilled consultants use applied behavioural science, insight, creativity and a talent for building strong relationships to transform public service delivery.

If you have a passion for improving public services and the energy to tackle some of our clients' most difficult challenges, we hope you will be inspired to join our team.

About the role

Our Senior Managers are responsible for the day-to-day delivery of our larger and more complex delivery projects and use their expertise and the IMPOWER EDGEWORK approach to make impactful changes that benefit our client's needs.

They are responsible for drawing out insight from our projects to share across the business, and they generate ideas for how we can develop our offer and methods of change delivery.

Our Senior Managers have some responsibility in supporting our senior team with relationship growth and account planning.

Our Senior Managers are emotionally intelligent - and know how to develop and manage a team of exceptionally talented and high performing staff.

They are responsible for the day to day and longer-term performance management of our project and internal teams, ensuring that our staff are trained, developed, retained, and well cared for.

About you
To excel in this role - you will need to have experience working in a management consultancy and, a combination of the following skills and experiences:

Project delivery expertise focused on people/behavioural change.
Place Sector consulting experience, including a deep knowledge of housing and homelessness
Experience managing the delivery of complex, longterm projects across place sector, achieving demonstrable impact.
Experienced in managing senior client and account relationships.
Business development and account growth experience.
Evidence of strong emotional intelligence, with a clear understanding of how to work in valuesbased organisations and environments.
Experience developing and managing high performing teams, achieving effective results, with the ability to flex management style according to individual need.
Commercial mindset with a clear understanding of the commercial requirements of running a consulting business, their contributions in supporting these and in ensuring consulting staff are delivering against their commercial responsibilities.
Must be comfortable with nationwide travel and be prepared in some cases to stay overnight local to client site.

About our offer

Competitive salary, with a personal and companybased performance bonus
28 days annual leave (+ bank holidays), with buy/sell/rollover scheme
Pension scheme
Life assurance and Income Protection
Medical and Dental Insurance
Gym Subsidy contribution, including to online fitness subscriptions
Parent, guardian, and carer friendly policies
Discounts at a variety of high street retailers
Regular training and development opportunities
Paid volunteer/CSR days
Regular team socials and celebrations (even virtual ones)

About our commitment to Inclusion

At IMPOWER, whilst we are committed to being an equal opportunities employer - our commitment to facilitating a safe, inclusive working environment doesn't just stop at an Equality and Diversity Policy.

We are an organisation that is actively working towards anti-discrimination of any kind against race, gender, gender identity, sexuality, disability, age, religious belief, parental or carer commitments, marital status or civil partnership.

We do this through our D&I strategy, constant review of our policies and procedures, via our recruitment processes, and training and development of our staff.