Operating Model Consultant - Defence & Security / Public Sector

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We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.

As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.

Our diverse teams of experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.

We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.

Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.

PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.

Our Operating Model team are looking for exceptional consultants within Defence & Security and the wider Public Sector. You will work collaboratively with a diverse team of experts to support clients to design strategies, operating structures and solutions that address their most pressing challenges. You will deliver projects that require a wide range of skills, from strategic design through business analysis and organisational design to programme definition and design coherence. You will work in blended teams, partnering with specialists from across the breadth of PA.

The ideal candidate will be able to apply a design thinking mindset, tools and approaches to help resolve a range of complex and societally meaningful client challenges. You will have strong analytical skills and also be able to apply more creative and abstract thinking to help develop ingenious solutions. As a client-facing role, you will be expected to engage and present to clients, and therefore will be a strong communicator (verbal and written), being able to communicate recommendations and insights from operational to C-suite level.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Work on many of the biggest issues facing the UK and our allies, helping build secure societies that work for everyone
• Gain exposure to deep experts in both public and private sector innovation and transformation, learning from and building on their experience
• Develop your business design skillset through a structured and experiential learning pathway
• Contribute to the growth and evolution of our team through participatory and federated leadership.

You will possess a minimum of 2 years’ experience which will include one or more of the following:

• Helping organisations & leadership teams shape business strategy and design organisational and collaborative structures
• Analysing what an organisation’s customers/users/citizens value
• Understanding how technology can help make an organisation more effective
• Analysing and solving problems using a data-driven and human-centred approach.
• Experience delivering within or for defence and/or public sector organisations

Other desirable skills include:

• Understanding the drivers for change facing national security and wider public sector leaders
• Being conversant in both business and technology architecture concepts
• Being familiar with enterprise operating model concepts
• Comfortable working in a collaborative way with clients and multi-disciplinary teams
• Confident working independently as the day-to-day client point of contact.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples’ working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose-led meaningful work.

We believe diversity fuels ingenuity. Diversity of thought brings exciting perspectives; diversity of experience brings a wealth of knowledge, and diversity of skills brings the tools we need. When we bring people together with diverse backgrounds, identities, and minds, embracing that difference through an inclusive culture where our people thrive; we unleash the power of diversity – bringing ingenuity to life.

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We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being of our people. Check out some of our extensive benefits:

• Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
• 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Generous company pension scheme
• Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
• Annual performance-based bonus
• PA share ownership
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)

We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We are on a journey towards ensuring our workforce is diverse at all levels and that our firm is representative of the world around us. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.

Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us on recruitmentenquiries@paconsulting.com

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