Principal Consultant - Program Advisory

Company Description
Are you interested in working on some of the world's most exciting projects, with some of the world's leading businesses?
At Turner & Townsend we're passionate about making the difference. That means delivering better outcomes for our clients, helping our people to realize their potential, and doing our part to create a prosperous society. Every day we help our clients deliver ambitious and highly technical projects in over 118 offices and 47 countries worldwide.
The world is changing, and organizations must change with it to remain relevant, productive and impactful. Turner & Townsend will give you the opportunity to work with world class clients on cutting edge projects and to build a successful career with a company that will offer the highest levels of support at every stage, a wide variety of benefits to our staff to help them inside or outside of the work. We offer true work life balance, working from home arrangements, team events and much more.
Turner & Townsend's Advisory team make the difference by transforming client performance through delivering impactful, inclusive, and sustainable solutions for our clients. Our growing Advisory team has an exciting opportunity for a Principal Consultant | Program Advisory, to join our Sydney team and work on some exciting projects and support our clients transform how their projects, programs and portfolios are delivered. We are looking for someone who has previous experience as a management consultant and is passionate about continuously helping clients improve in every aspect of their business.
Job Description
As a Principal Consultant, you will support, and in some cases lead, Consulting commission, taking responsibility for client engagement and team leadership for both our clients and team, including:

• To act as day-to-day client consultant, ensuring that client objectives are met and that projects are delivered to time and cost targets and the appropriate quality standards.
• Taking responsibility for specific deliverables, often with respect to significant cultural change, new ways of working and capital program capability uplift.
• Identifying improvement or efficiency opportunities and driving through to implementation through consulting change management and delivery.
• Producing clear, concise and persuasive client-facing reports or deliverables in various formats that deliver to client expectations and demonstrate value.
• In addition to these primary activities, you will be charged with the following activities:

• To provide complementary services to core Turner & Townsends propositions such as project management, cost management, contract services and program management.
• Managing change proactively with client stakeholders
• Deploying a variety of techniques to deliver improvements to client operations that include, but are not limited to, process re-engineering, organisational change, stakeholder management implementation and beyond.
• Leading the establishment of the overall success criteria for the consulting engagements.
• Establishing effective client governance, processes and systems to be utilised throughout projects, programs and portfolios.
• Implementation planning, including ensuring the production of the detailed project plan.
• Producing coherent and persuasive cases for change.
• To support the development of consulting and advisory sales opportunities with new or existing clients and convert successfully through high quality bid writing.
• Support translating client strategy into clear action plans that make a tangible difference.

• Program Setup

• Development of Project, Program and Portfolio Management Frameworks
• Development of Project, Program and Portfolio Governance Frameworks
• Development of Commercial Management Frameworks
• Program Management

• Delivery of large-scale complex real estate programs
• Stakeholder and workshop facilitation
• Good communication and presentation skills
• Good understanding of business improvement approaches including business process re-engineering, system development, change management and other relevant techniques.
• Stakeholder Management

• Problem-Solving Skills
• Ability to respond and adapt to challenges and think laterally for solutions.
• Continually strive for improvement in deliverables.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 - 10 years consulting experience.
• Experience of working across real estate sectors or infrastructure or natural resources and both private and public sectors
• Professional accreditation desirable i.e.PMP, PRINCE2, Lean Six Sigma Green Belt.
• Degree in business management / program management, engineering, quantity surveying or similar
• Self-sufficient in leading client process, improvement, change, & transformation
• High degree of capability in delivering capital projects, programs and portfolio management
• Professionally qualified in one of the following fields: management consulting, business management, program management or project management..
• Well-developed interpersonal, consultation and negotiation skills with demonstrated experience engaging, facilitating, collaborating, and influencing key stakeholders and customers to deliver value
• Strong written and oral communication, including the ability to deliver workshops and presentations to our clients.
• Excellent organisational skills and proven ability to prioritise workload to achieve our client's timelines.
• Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary consultancy team environment and individually.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Microsoft Office suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel)

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.
Turner & Townsend does not accept any speculative or unsolicited CV's that have been sent to our internal recruitment team or hiring managers from agencies outside of our preferred supplier list. Any speculative or unsolicited CV's will be treated as a direct application.
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