Senior Project/Programme Manager - London & Dublin

Overview of Role:

Distinct, Part of the WDScott Group is a new breed of management consultancy and outsourcing provider: we use advanced data modelling techniques to improve operational performance, reduce costs and create growth for our clients. We work with our clients in the areas of Customer Value, Enterprise Risk, Sales Performance and Operational Excellence. By taking the broad commercial view, we come up with innovative and effective ways for companies to cut cost, reduce risk or cut time to market.

Our clients include market-leading banking, insurance, and public sector companies in Europe, the United States and Australasia.

We are now looking for Senior Project and Programme Managers to join our consultancy team. If you are looking for a new challenge in management consultancy and believe that you have the qualities to succeed in a dynamic and high growth consultancy environment, then we would like to hear from you. 

Responsibilities will Include the Following:

• Develop, manage and deliver business improvement projects to exceed client expectations by demonstrating strong problem solving and implementation capabilities
• Participate in business problem solving, delivering robust analysis that outlines how clients can change their business to achieve real benefit
• Develop insights that generate business value, typically this involves mining and analysing client data using our frameworks to identify business improvement opportunity
• Assess the current state of business, identifying and delivering improvements in process, system or human performance.
• Participate in re-engineering business models whether it is at a strategic business-wide level or at a functional or process level
• Actively engage with prospective clients and seek to develop new accounts

Experience and Skills required for the role of Senior Project Manager:

• Strong business / engineering degree
• 7+ years of experience in managing complex programmes/projects, preferably within a consulting environment
• Experience in being an effective change agent and leader
• Ability to manage, motivate and organise multi-discipline teams
• Comfortable managing client expectations and relationships
• Genuine appetite and passion for business models and business improvement
• Experience of working in Financial Services and/or Insurance
• Ideally Business and IT project management experience

What to Expect:

• As an employee you can expect competitive reward, job satisfaction and intellectual challenge.
• As a business we will invest in training and we will support your development so that our clients benefit from your continuous improvement and advancement