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Principal Consultant - Change & Transformation

£63.4 - £73.5 per hourEstimated
Full-time


Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.​

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.​

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.​

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.​

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Job Description



Our Programme Advisory team specialises in the strategy, set-up and transformation of major programmes and asset owning enterprises within the transport, defence, utilities, and power sectors in the UK and internationally.

Since forming in 2018 our growing team of experts have brought innovative thinking to some of the world’s most complex infrastructure challenges - delivering tangible outcomes for clients by bringing the best of our technical excellence and transformational change capability.

We are an influential team who share a common passion for making change a reality, continually setting new standards. As a diverse and inclusive team of unique individuals, we inspire one another to do better every day. Our collaborative culture also ensures that everyone’s potential is maximised, constantly learning through experience and close team relationships.

Joining the Programme Advisory team will afford you exciting opportunities to directly support world renowned clients, enhance your consulting skills, shape your career, and directly contribute to the teams exciting growth trajectory.

The Opportunity:

We are seeking to recruit enthusiastic, talented, and proactive individuals who have hands on change management experience and are passionate about delivering tangible results for clients.

Change and transformation is at the heart of the Programme Advisory Team. We work across the entire lifecycle, conducting diagnostic reviews, designing operating models, delivering transformation programmes, and managing business change activity to embed new ways of working.

As a Principal Consultant your key responsibilities will include:

  • Leading change and transformation workstreams, providing guidance and direction to team members and client staff
  • Leading the delivery of key client deliverables (e.g., change strategies, communication & engagement plans, presentations, and reports)
  • Designing and facilitating client workshops and presentations
  • Managing client relationships
  • Identifying and realising business development opportunities
  • Leading or contributing towards the preparation of bid proposals or managing key bids
  • Leading internal initiatives within the Programme Advisory team, such as the development of transformation products and methodologies
  • Mentoring junior members of the Programme Advisory team
  • Line managing junior staff (where applicable)

Qualifications



We would expect experience in multiple of the capabilities listed below at an Expert level (Subject Matter Expert and trusted advisor with applied knowledge in a variety of environments).

  • Ideally experience working in a consulting environment (other consultancies or as an internal consultant) or be able to demonstrate a consulting skillset
  • A proven track record of delivering tangible results on change and transformation projects through the application of business change methodologies
  • Experience of programme and project management within a complex change environment with multiple workstreams
  • Experience in Operating Model design and implementation
  • Experience of managing stakeholders within large and complex organisations
  • Experience of designing and facilitating client workshops
  • Experience of managing the production of high-quality change and transformation deliverables within challenging timescales
  • Experience of leading solution development for a change and transformation project
  • Experience in organisational design and development
  • Experience developing client relationships and developing new business opportunities
  • Change management and transformation

    qualifications

    are favourable (e.g., MSP, APMG Change Management, Prosci)
  • Experience in some/all the following sectors: infrastructure, rail, utilities, healthcare, defence, natural resources, and real estate

Skills:

  • Deep knowledge and application of business change principles
  • Excellent analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills
  • Strong leadership skills
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent responsibilities
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Excellent presentation skills
  • High attention to detail
  • Outcomes focussed
  • Entrepreneurial mindset
  • Passionate and energetic

Additional information

  • Possession or eligibility of UK security clearance (sole UK) is viewed favourably but not essential
  • Expected to be on site 2-3 days per week

Additional Information



Our inspired people share our vision and mission. We provide a great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.

We want our people to succeed both in work and life. To support this we promote a healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance. 

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.

SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

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Any unsolicited resumes/CVs submitted through our website or to Turner & Townsend personal e-mail accounts, are considered property of Turner & Townsend and are not subject to payment of agency fees. In order to be an authorised Recruitment Agency/Search Firm for Turner & Townsend, there must be a formal written agreement in place and the agency must be invited, by the Recruitment Team, to submit candidates for review. 

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