At Atkins we help our clients achieve genuine benefits from their business change programmes. We advise at senior levels on complex business problems, but we also take a hands-on role, to ensure the solutions aren't just conceived, they are delivered, and the real-world benefits of the investment can be realised.

Our consulting services are provided across the entire lifecycle of business change from conducting strategic reviews, to facilitating the embedding and adoption of new ways of working. Our change capabilities include supporting and enabling technical, process, cultural and organisational change for our clients across sectors as diverse as aviation, defence, security, transport, energy, water, retail, local and central government. We often work alongside our colleagues in the other parts of the Atkins business world-wide.

Within Atkins Business and Digital Consulting (BDC) Practice, the Change and Engagement (BC&E) team works with its clients to solve some of the most interesting challenges facing organisations todayby promoting an innovative and collaborative culture. We seek to develop new ideas and solutions to our client’s current challenges, as well as helping them navigate their businesses through the opportunities that the future will offer.

With opportunities in our Bristol, Cheltenham and London offices, we are looking to grow our team and are looking for people at two main roles:

• Principal Consultant level - for highly experienced Business Change Consultants and for those who are looking to transfer significant previous experience into a consultancy environment

• Managing Consultant level - for those with significant Business Consulting experience with a proven track record, who can perform effectively at a senior level. We need exceptional people who can build strong client relationships, develop sales opportunities for our services and manage delivery effectively.

The Managing/Principal Consultant role
Helping our clients change their businesses in response to internal and external influences and opportunities is a core capability with our BDC Practice. The focus of the Managing/Principal Consultant role is to help our clients through the full business change life-cycle using the most effective and efficient methods available. Often, our consultants are involved early in the lifecycle helping to shape the client’s objectives before starting to develop the overall change strategy and plan.

The majority of the work will be for our Government clients in the security and defence sectors, but there may be opportunities for you to expand into other sectors over time. Projects will be UK-wide and therefore travel is to be expected for some assignments.

About you

The successful candidate will be given significant responsibility for client-facing work from day one. All our Managing/ Principal Consultants will be responsible for managing the delivery of change for the client, assuring target outcomes are achieved in line with the business case.

You will be expected to have regular interactions with clients, key senior stakeholders, to lead work-streams or projects, and to lead colleagues in delivering specific project outputs. We therefore ask that you provide strong evidence of your proven track record of leading and managing business change ideally through consulting across following areas:

Technical Delivery

• Shaping strategic direction and actively clarifying priorities whilst dealing with ambiguity
• Helping the client to set the vision and strategic objectives
• Leading and assuring the delivery of Business Change activities across multiple projects
• Defining the required Business Change activities whilst taking a pragmatic approach
• Understanding, adapting and applying a wide variety of tools and techniques in diverse and complex environments
• Initiating and facilitating communications between key senior stakeholders, acting as a single point of contact where beneficial
• Leading and facilitating senior leader level workshops to develop and to share emerging ideas or final conclusions
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to write documents which are compelling, engaging and unambiguous to clients and other senior stakeholders
• Creating Outcomes/Benefits Management strategy
• Leading and assuring risks and issues management for the identified change
• Leading on defining the Training Strategy and Training Needs Analysis
• Providing clear direction in developing TOM and Org design

Client Interaction

• Supporting Atkins Consultants in their day-to-day interactions with clients
• Engaging with our clients and/or representatives to provide day-to-day advice as required
• Working within a multi-disciplinary team, either on client site or in the office
• Building good and lasting relationships with clients at all levels in a business environment
• Gaining client trust and identify opportunities for adding further value to the client relationship
• Maintaining a flexible attitude to working in a multi-disciplinary environment

Practice and Business Development

• Line management and/or lead role experience with an ability to motivate and mentor staff
• Clearly demonstrate an ability to transfer skills and knowledge to colleagues
• Have experience in leading, supporting or contributing to the sale of Business Consulting work – including bid development and presentation delivery
• Have strong commercial acumen and are comfortable with managing bids and end to end assignment financial management
   

Additionally, you will display the following characteristics:

• A passion for developing technically, professionally and behaviourally
• A collaborative team-player who delivers great results and operates to high behavioural standards and business ethics
• An ability to deal with competing tasks and operate successfully even when under pressure
• A strong emotional intelligence and the ability to flex your style to suit different stakeholders, and is confident and self-assured in putting forward your views and able to hold your own with senior stakeholders
• You demonstrate a high level of problem-solving ability in relation to technically complex or conceptually abstract ideas

Qualifications we expect:

• You have at least a Degree or equivalent qualification
• You are qualified as an APMG Change Management Practitioner, MSP Practitioner and/or equivalent professional qualifications
• You have been, or you are a member of an appropriate professional body (e.g. APMG)
• You are proficient in Microsoft Office products such as Word, PowerPoint and Excel or equivalent

Why work for Atkins?
With Atkins you will be in a trusted, supported position, primarily client based, where you are able to apply both existing skills and develop new skills in complex and challenging situations. You will be able to share your knowledge and experience and learn from others within the team and you will have opportunities to become a mature, established and multi-skilled consultant.

You are required to be flexible in terms of work location and travel. If deployed at client site, you should be geographically mobile and be prepared to work on-site anywhere in the UK.

Training 
Atkins develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development activities designed to help you make the best of your abilities and talents.

Rewards and Benefits
Please refer to our website for details of our full benefits package.

Additional Info

Closing date for applications is Friday 14th June 2019 with interviews to be held on the following days;

Bristol: Tuesday 18th June and Thursday 20th June between 10:30am and 3pm.

London: Tuesday 25th June and Friday 28th June between 10:30am and 3pm.

Should you not be available on those dates, please make your Recruiter aware in the initial discussion.

ATKINS, part of the SNC Lavalin Group, is committed to having a diverse and inclusive workforce. As an Equal Opportunities Employer, we value applications from all backgrounds, cultures and ability.

This role may require security clearance and offers of employment will be dependent on obtaining the relevant level of clearance. If this is necessary, it will be discussed with you at interview.

If applying to this role please do not make reference to (in conversation) or include in your application or CV, details of any current or previously held security clearance