Senior/Principal Consultant - Strategy & Transformation

Your Impact:

Start your Jacobs career with a company that inspires and empowers you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow.

At Jacobs, we'll inspire and empower you to deliver your best work so you can evolve, grow and succeed – today and into tomorrow. With more than 55,000 people in 40 countries, working at Jacobs offers an exciting range of opportunities to develop your career within a supportive and diverse team who always strive to do the right thing for our people, clients and communities.

People are Jacobs’ greatest asset, and we offer a competitive package to retain and attract the best talent.
In addition to the benefits you’d expect, UK employees also receive free single medical cover and digital GP service, family-friendly benefits such as enhanced parental leave pay and free membership of employee assistance and parental programmes, plus reimbursement towards relevant professional development and memberships. We also give back to our communities through our Collectively program which incorporates matched-funding, paid volunteering time and charitable donations.

Work-life balance and flexibility is a key focus area for Jacobs. We’re happy to discuss hybrid, part-time and flexible working hours, patterns and locations to suit you and our business.

About the Opportunity

Strategy and Transformation Solutions is part of Jacobs’ Strategic Consulting capability. We focus on the operational and strategic transformation elements of delivering programmes, projects and operations, primarily in the built environment. Our strategy for winning work and delivering effectively for our clients focuses on offering practical, deliverable and innovative solutions to very complex issues, particularly around people. We pride ourselves on our ability to develop trusting relationships with our clients, co-creating and implementing effective strategies and plans, tailored to their operating environment. We bring the breadth and depth of Jacobs’ technical knowledge to support our clients as they transform to meet the future needs of global populations, transport, energy and water systems.

STS is a team of enthusiastic and people-centric individuals with a shared sense of purpose, who support each other to provide outstanding results for our clients and rewarding careers for the whole team. Our services are focused on: organisation and behavioural / cultural change, operating models, organisation design and governance and PMO/ TMO set up and operation.

As a Senior/Principal Consultant within STS, delivering our services, your responsibilities will include:

·Leading on project delivery (or a task workstream within a larger programme of work) with accountability for management of the project or task team and its deliverables.

·Establish and manage relationships with clients and delivery partners to ensure buy-in to an agreed solution.

·Manage client relationships to grow their understanding of Jacobs (StratCon/STS) offerings which we can subsequently use to resolve their most pressing challenges.

·Take responsibility for the development and delivery of specific elements of high impact presentations to clients.

·Provide coaching and guidance for junior staff.

·Lead internal business development and practice improvement initiatives such as bids, proposals.

·Lead and/or support capability development.

At Jacobs we operate a hybrid working model, and the role can be based at any of our London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Winnersh (Reading), Leeds, York, Glasgow or Edinburgh offices, combined with working from home.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Motivated and enthusiastic with a personal drive for high quality work, holistic thinking and pragmatic solutions. You will be a collaborative team player who is proactive and willing to learn. Our team is looking for people with a growth mindset and the ability to constructively challenge accepted norms and seek better ways of doing things. As a member of our team, you will live inclusivity and diversity in all forms.

Clients are at the heart of everything you do, and you’ll demonstrate the ability to constructively challenge the accepted norms and always seek a better way.You’ll also have:

·Experience managing projects and leading workstreams on one or more of the following areas: programme delivery models, transformation programmes, change management, behaviour/culture change, strategy and vision, operating models, organisation design, PMO, benefits management, innovation, maturity assessments.

·Consultancy experience desired in infrastructure or industrial sectors such as energy and power, rail, transit, highways, water & environment, climate response, aviation, defence, nuclear, ports and built environment

·Knowledge and application of industry frameworks on programme delivery and transformation

·Experience of developing and maintaining client and stakeholder relationships

·Ability to engage & communicate with stakeholders at all levels where required

·Experience working in a programme and/or project environment with multiple stakeholders and of operating in cross-business teams, including digitally enabled infrastructure programme

Our Culture

Our values stand on a foundation of safety, integrity, inclusion and diversity. We put people at the heart of our business and we truly believe that by supporting one another through our culture of caring, we all succeed. We value positive mental health and a sense of belonging for all employees. Find out more about life at Jacobs.

We aim to embed inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We know that if we are inclusive, we’re more connected, and if we are diverse, we’re more creative. We accept people for who they are, regardless of age, disability, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, mental health, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave. This is reflected in our wide range of Global Employee Networks centred on inclusion and diversity – ACE, Careers, Enlace, Harambee, OneWorld, Prism, Vetnet, and Women’s – find out more about our employee networks here.

Jacobs partners with VERCIDA to help us attract and retain diverse talent. For greater online accessibility please visit www.vercida.comto view and access our roles. As a Disability Confident employer, we will interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for a vacancy. We welcome applications from candidates who are seeking flexible working and from those who may not meet all the listed requirements for a role

If you require further support or reasonable adjustments with regards to the recruitment process (for example, you require the application form in a different format), please contact the team.

Your application experience is important to us and we’re keen to adapt to make every interaction even better. We welcome feedback on our recruitment process and if you need more from us before deciding to join Jacobs then please let us know.

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