The Role:
This role exists within the Group Systems Department of PA Consulting Group. Group Systems is the internal IT support and development function for PA Consulting Group globally.

The role is based at our Cambridge (Melbourn) site. The successful candidate will spend c.80% of their time in the Melbourn office and c. 20% of their time in the London office (near Victoria station).

Experience required:
- Working in IT arenas
- Project Management experience
- Must be customer focused with proven success at delivering business outcomes across multiple projects and programmes of varying scale/type
- Must have strong interpersonal skills and ability to communicate at all levels, both verbal and written – ‘gravitas’ and credibility
- A well developed range of ‘soft’ skills such as facilitation, influencing and negotiation, team building and dynamics (both within own project teams and the project office itself)
- Able to grasp technology detail quickly but not to be intellectually constrained by it
- An appreciation of change management as a key to unlocking benefits from projects
- Must have high level of decision making capability
- Experience of managing implementation of Microsoft software products (SQL, ASP, .NET) desirable 
-  Experience of managing diverse and geographically dispersed projects teams highly desirable
- Proficient in the practical applicatoin of Microsoft Project 2000
- Consulting and/ or Business Analysis experience would be advantageous but not essential.
Duties/Responsibilities and Competencies of the Role:

Reporting to the Head of Projects within Group Systems, the successful person will deliver business outcomes and benefits through the successful management of projects and programmes, of varying scale, through each stage of the project lifecycle.

This person will have:
• Full responsibility for assigned projects which may include: software development, product implementation and infrastructure deployment
• Ensuring projects are delivered in accordance with criteria agreed with senior management, e.g. time, cost, quality and scope
• Meeting project success criteria defined by key stakeholders and customers to ensure successful delivery of business outcomes (and the related benefits)
• Managing project and programme stakeholders in terms of expectations, issues and progress
• Matrix managing technically diverse and distributed project teams/resources
• Producing and maintaining project and programme documentation throughout the full project lifecycle
• Managing project performance and hygiene (e.g. scope, objectives, schedule, issues, risks, resourcing and dependencies)
• Ensuring issue, risk and dependency management is implemented and maintained
• Facilitating issue resolution and negotiating trade-off decisions with other teams, senior management and business owners
• Providing input to technical documentation, ensuring specs are agreed to and supported by the project schedule

About PA Consulting Group:
We are an independent, employee-owned, Global firm of 3,000 talented individuals, operating from offices across the world. We have won numerous awards for delivering complex and highly innovative assignments, run one of the most successful venture programmes in our industry, have technology development capability that few firms can match, deep expertise across key industries and government, and a unique breadth of skills from strategy to IT to HR to applied technology.

Working in Corporate:
PA Consulting Group’s business support team is critical to the company's success and the delivery of its ambitions. The team help support day-to-day operations, build the PA brand, ensure our technology is leading-edge, attract and motivate the best consultants into PA, and deliver support wherever it is needed. In this way, we ensure our consultants are best placed to deliver what is most important at PA -- client value.

We are committed to our business support team’s personal and career development. All employees -- not only consultants -- have the opportunity to become shareholders in PA, and so we all think and act as owners of the firm, rather than just 'employees'. As a result, we have a highly motivated, delivery-focused, 'can do' culture, and we look to attract like-minded people who want to build a career at the leading-edge of the consulting industry.

Diversity:
PA is a meritocracy. We are committed to recruiting, promoting and remunerating our employees solely on the basis of their ability to contribute to PA’s objectives, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, national origin, ethnicity, age, marital or civil partnership status or part-time or fixed-term status unrelated to the job involved. Diversity is something which makes PA a stronger company; it is something which we value and want to continue to enhance.