Management Consultant

Company Description

Talan UK & Ireland (part of the Talan Group) is an expert provider of professional services. Our vision and mission is to take positive action in a complex world for the future good of people and the environment and to enlighten and enable our clients’ transformation in an increasingly complex world.

We are purpose-driven, working across multiple sectors, tackling social and environmental challenges, improving and simplify the way markets work, harnessing the power of digital transformation and ensuring data is protected and used ethically.

Talan UK & Ireland provides a range of consultancy and outsourcing capabilities including programme management, market design and governance. We also have extensive and award-winning capabilities across cyber security, data privacy and digital transformation. We are IIP Gold accredited and Great Place to Work accredited.

The nature of what we do means we are very much a people business. The contribution every member of the team makes to our diverse range of experience, skills and personalities is valued. We invest heavily in learning and development to enable our people to develop skills and gain experience which will enhance career prospects for life. Many who started their careers with us have rapidly progressed to more senior positions.

No two days are the same, but we believe in a flexible approach to working which we know our employees value.

Job Description

The Role

As part of the digital team you will lead client engagements working in the Digital business unit at Talan. You will have opportunities to work with many well known exciting client brands.

You will support our clients and stakeholders across different market sectors to design and deliver successful digital change initiatives. As a lead Consultant, you will work with a team of experts to identify opportunities to delivers tangible and measurable benefits for our customers.

You will help our clients identify new ways of working that are enabled by technology that make a real difference to the way our customers work.

This exciting opportunity is central to ensuring that Talan can deliver and manage the right solutions to clients and build on recent successes to enhance our digital transformation offering in a fast-changing environment.

You will also get to work with a broad range of other functions including change management, cyber security and our offshore digital centre of excellence.

Client and delivery leadership, team collaboration and structured analytical thinking.

Some projects require analytical capability, structured innovative problem-solving to generate insight and formulate a technology led project with the customer at the heart.

Other projects will require tenacity and relationship management skills to facilitate diverse groups of stakeholders through challenging digital change journeys. Most need a combination of both. All, require the ability to work side-by-side with your colleagues and our clients to create long-lasting value for the organisation.

Through client project work you will actively establish, maintain and strengthen relationships both with clients and within Talan to identify and support business development opportunities working with our sales team.

Under the guidance of more senior colleagues you will articulate the value of our services to new and existing clients and contribute to new business development.

In line with our commitment to quality, you’ll consistently drive projects to completion and ensure work is of high quality.

As an influential member of the team, there will be opportunity for international travel, and you will be encouraged to develop a global perspective across emerging and developed markets.

Responsibilities

• Lead client problem solving sessions to identify and translate the business challenge from requirement definition (working in collaboration with your technology and other colleagues) through to initiative / project ideation.
• Lead complex digital transformation projects, supporting the client through the full life cycle of technology enabled change.
• Co-lead client-facing customer engagements with support from senior colleagues
• Provide support to business development initiatives
• Support best practice implementation and continuous development of technology consulting services across the business unit offerings

Competitive Salary – plus bonus and excellent benefits package

Qualifications

Requirements

Successful applicants

Need to demonstrate:

• Top academics with a degree from a leading institution (desirable)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills a must.
• Strong professional track record shaping digital technology transformation projects. This means taking our clients on the journey from defining, prioritising the business challenge (working with our subject matter experts) to determine what is the best technology driven solution for them, by running tailored workshops to define what customer experience or business objective(s) need(s) must be met.
• Strong analytical capability, and ability to translate business requirements into technology requirements (with Talan technology subject matter experts / SMEs)
• Evidence of client management skills, and commercial acumen (can you spot those opportunities and risks)
• Intellectual curiosity with evidence of strong problem-solving and structured thinking skills
• Ability to influence and persuade clients and internal stakeholder to drive decisions
• Ability to navigate through ambiguity and bring structure into client thinking, a must
• French and/or Arabic language a bonus

Experience type

• Related experience in consulting, or blue-chip corporate sectors
• Experience of being part of teams delivering challenging projects
• 5-7 years’ experience in similar role
• Understanding / experience of the UK energy market a bonus
• Understanding data architecture, market and regulatory design processes a bonus

Upon employment, employees should also have a sound awareness of the Company’s Information, Quality, Environmental and Energy Management Systems.

Additional Information

WHAT WE OFFER
25 days annual leave, plus bank holidays
Profit related Bonus (discretionary)
Reward and recognition schemes
Flexible working
Private Bupa healthcare
Life Assurance (up to 4 times annual salary)
Matched pension contributions
Season Ticket Loan
Cycle to work scheme
Buy and Sell annual leave
Reimbursement of eye test and up to £50 towards glasses or contacts
Corporate gym rates
Employee Assistance Programme
Summer and Christmas parties, along with monthly Social@77