Associate Programme Manager - Central London
Associate Programme Manager – Multidisciplinary Consultancy
London Based Client Role
The Company: My client, who is an established multidisciplinary consultancy, with an annual turnover of £10m. Didn’t Furlough, make any pay reductions or redundancies during Covid-19! Accredited a 3 star by Best Companies to work for in 2020, they also have a 98% staff satisfaction approval rating – with 50% of their current workforce being promoted at least once since joining. They specialise in providing advisory and the delivery of a range of complex services. Including healthcare strategy, planning, property services, sustainability and programme, project and cost management services. Aiming to help their clients improve their environments performance whilst remaining financially sustainable.
The Role: Working with public & private businesses who own, occupy and operate complex estates. Healthcare facilities which improve patient outcomes, research facilities that enable innovative treatments and discoveries, education facilities which stimulate generational learning.
"The Programme Manager will sit alongside the senior client and define and monitor the benefits of a capital build, or merger, site move or transformation of services. They will monitor and calculate risk. They will act as the client to keep all stakeholders informed."
Some of the specific areas that the team have seen increased activity in the past year include:
Programme Turnaround: Recovering impacted programmes to put them back on track with focussed intervention.
Programme Health Checks: Providing assurance for programmes, are they on track and expected to deliver the expected benefits.
Programme Management Office: Providing governance, control, direction and coordination to complex programmes.
Estates Reviews: Performing diagnostics and making recommendations towards the creation of more efficient and effective Estates & Facilities Departments.
Relocation and transition programme management: Implementing re-sizing programmes to introduce new ways of working and to achieve financial savings.
High Impact Risk management: Professionalising the risk management function of programmes, moving the risk register from the back of the report to the centre of programme decision making, supported by comprehensive quantification techniques.
Job Location: Central London Offices: London, Ireland, East Anglia and the East Midlands.
Head Count: 90
Predominate Sectors: Healthcare, Science and Education.
Requirements for the Associate Programme Manager:
• Account Management: Manage the successful programme management delivery, and where appropriate support the Director in aspects of client care and obtaining client feedback on performance and service delivery at key stages through each commission. Assist in the handling of complex client negotiations. Where appropriate, act as the client relationship manager for individual clients and account.
• Service Management: Accountable for providing programme management services to support and enhance the effective delivery of all services. Support in strategy development for the service. Support and contribute towards bids and tender responses for the service. Develop quality assurance in processes and procedures for the service line. Contribute towards business development activity for the service line, developing enduring client relationships.
• Team Management: Assist the Director in developing and managing a high performing specialist team of consultants representing a centre of excellence for the service line. Assist in recruiting and training team members. Assist in providing leadership and mentoring to the wider team, including new graduates.
• Financial Management: Be responsible for managing the Profit & Loss / financial performance on own projects, analysing performance against budget and income targets and monitoring efficiency of others on own projects. Contribute towards a new business consultancy target for the Service Line. Assist with client negotiations and commercial development if required.
The benefits included in this role are:
• Competitive basic of £67k + (Negotiable DOE)
• Up to 10% annual bonus
• Discounted Private healthcare scheme
• Flexible / remote working
• Professional development
• Flexible annual leave
Get in touch today to find out more about this fantastic opportunity, Guy Dugdale – guy@prosper-consulting.org.uk