FILLED: Business Improvement Manager - Prestigious Professional services Organisation, Competitive Salary and Package, City of London
Business Improvement Manager -
Prestigious Professional services Organisation
PERMANENT, City of London Based,
Competitive Salary and Package.
Our Client is a Prestigious Global
Professional Services Company with a first class record for serving blue chip
clients and providing outstanding careers for its professionals.
This is a final version of
an earlier role that we sent out for a Manager to join their internal consulting team.
Due to growth in the internal Business
Improvement Team the
Client is looking for a No 2 to work with the Head of the Department to manage
the team of 8 Consultants and their portfolio of Process Change projects.
The focus is on productivity
improvement in the client engagements which are often largescale, high value
and complex pieces of work in areas like M&A Finance and Dispute Resolution. There is scope for significant savings in this
area and the team are having success with the way that these engagements are
handled, focusing on the processes used and bringing about significant
productivity gains.
This role will suit a consultant or a
Process improvement specialist in a large organisation who is already managing
smaller teams of consultants.
It is a great opportunity to join a
growing practice in a leading Professional Services organisation and have a
role in shaping the future of their Business Improvement Activities.
- Leading the
work to scope, structure and plan different projects on behalf of
practices/functions and, thereafter, manage delivery of requirements to
plan and within budget from set-up to close (reporting to the Project
Sponsor, and with responsibility for the work of project team members);
- working with
the Head of Project Services to ensure proper governance, control and
monitoring of such projects;
- provision of
ad hoc consultancy advice and assistance to other projects (e.g. in
relation to change management, budgeting, communications, implementation);
and
- supporting
the building of the firm’s project management capability (e.g. via
training or other best practice initiatives).
Key skills and Requirements
Mandatory
- Excellent
interpersonal, stakeholder and change management skills - Experience in
overcoming “barriers to progress”, and reaching mutually acceptable
outcomes with multiple difficult stakeholders
- Experience
with global, complex, cross functional change and improvement programmes
- At
least 10 years record of Providing/Managing Business Process Improvement
success. You will understand Business Process Re-engineering and lean
approaches
- Consulting
experience working Internally or with a Consulting organisation to improve
efficiency and ways of working in a
Professional Services environment
- Good degree (at least 2:1 preferable)