Consultant/ Senior Consultant - Performance & Operational Excellence

Job description

Your Impact:

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

Performance & Operational Excellence is a diverse and capable group of management orientated consultants from a range of professional backgrounds. We have a focus on adopting best practice ways of working and driving continuous improvement wherever we work. We often support other lines of business, typically as part of larger project teams. Our work direct to clients continues to grow and we often work alongside our Strategic Consulting colleagues and external partners as blended, agile teams.

We enable the realisation of more efficient and reliable delivery, unlocking innovation potential and making continuous improvement a reality. Our core capabilities have grown from lean fundamentals and application of production thinking. We have expanded our capabilities to include customer-led solutions, agile ways of working, lean start-up and high performing team development.

Performance & Operational Excellence offer the opportunity of variety as we support clients across P&PS and CMS lines of business. The breadth of opportunities suits those who have the curiosity to experience new environments and capability to quickly adapt. The deliberate agile construct of Strategic Consulting gives you the opportunity to exercise your wider capabilities and areas of interest. Our wider consultancy capabilities include asset management advisory, transactions and commercial advisory, business case & economics, transformation management, organisational design and data analytics.

You will enjoy success in delivery with a proactive approach to identifying opportunities for improvement. An interest in best practice ways of working and the ability to impress these on others is critical. You must be comfortable working in diverse and potentially challenging team environments where you will often be expected to facilitate collaboration and pursuit of performance improvement. We support from technical delivery through to senior management suites and you will need to be comfortable engaging with a range of stakeholders. We drive a digital by default approach; technical capability in data management and analytics is beneficial.

Here's What You'll Need:

A strategic, yet delivery-oriented, thinker

Demonstratable ability to facilitate reliable delivery, process improvement and high performing teams

Experience in Agile and Scrum philosophy, methodologies and ways of working

Exposure to new product or solutions development incubators and/or accelerators

Digital mindset and acumen and exposure to digital analytics tools such as PowerBI

Experience in operating in a programme and/or project environment with multiple stakeholders and of operating in cross-business teams

Experience in stakeholder engagement with strong presentation and communication skills

Analytical thinking ability and problem-solving skills

A mindset to constructively challenge the accepted norms and always seek a better way

Client and end-customer focus

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.com to 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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