Consultant - Programme Advisory

We are seeking enthusiastic individuals with a blend of analytical skills, problem solving, technical skills and interpersonally skills to support our three core capability pillars:

• Technical Leadership: Acting as subject matter experts, providing expert advice and insight to clients across key sectors.
• Operational Leadership: Supporting the development and growth of future AtkinsRéalis teams, prioritising welfare, talent retention and professional development.
• Win Work Leadership: Advocating our capabilities to clients, helping to expand our portfolio and secure new projects.

About you

• Adaptability: Flexibility to adjust approaches and strategies based on changing client needs and environment.
• Analytical Skills: Apply your strong analytical thinking to collect, organise, and analyse significant amounts of data, ensuring the accurate delivery of insights and recommendations.
• Performance Reporting & Visualisation: Develop insightful reporting packs, KPIs, executive dashboards, and Power BI visualisations that provide stakeholders with clear visibility of programme performance, risks, trends, and improvement opportunities.
• Problem Solving: Creative and critical thinking to develop innovative solutions for client challenges.
• Consultancy Skills: Enhance your ability to influence clients on strategic initiatives and introduce innovative solutions that will make a long-lasting impact.
• Stakeholder Management: Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, tailoring communications to specific audiences and facilitating effective workshops (in-person, virtual, or hybrid).
• Presentation of findings: prepare and present reports, proposals and recommendations to clients and stakeholders, effectively communicating complex ideas.
• Continuous Improvement: identify opportunities for process and operational enhancements and contribute to the development of innovative cost-effective solutions in programmes and operations.
• Programme Lifecycle: You will contribute across the full programme lifecycle, assisting in the setup and delivery of major transformational projects and PMOs.
• Process Mapping: Support the develop and implementation of best practices, processes, and guidance for operational teams, programme teams and PMOs.
• Proactive Approach: Take initiative in delivering high-quality advice and solutions in dynamic, complex, and often ambiguous environments.
• Driving Change: Support change initiatives, driving tangible results in fast-evolving environments.
• Technical Excellence: Deliver an exceptional service to our clients, ensuring that both clients and internal teams benefit from your technical knowledge and insights.
• Professional Certifications: Ideally, you will hold or be working towards certifications such as APM PMQ/PPQ/ChPP, MoP, MSP, or PRINCE2, or similar qualifications.

• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and is driven to make a real impact?
• Is passionate about sustainability and making an impact on our environment?
• Brings experience in a consultancy environment?
• Enjoys developing dashboards, reporting solutions, and performance insights?
• Is motivated to grow and develop professionally.
• Is eager to seize opportunities for training, development and new sector experiences?
• Wants to learn from specialists and receive mentorship?
• Seeks roles that align with and strengthen your skill set?
• If you answered ‘yes’ to these questions, this role could be an excellent fit for you!
• This is a unique opportunity to work alongside some of the most experienced teams in the global AtkinsRéalis business, across a wide variety of programmes. You will play a pivotal role in helping us achieve our ambitious growth objectives while also developing your career and advancing your personal growth journey.

We’ve experienced significant success in the complex infrastructure sector over the last two years, positioning Programme Advisory as one of the fastest-growing parts of our organisation. With ambitious plans for even faster growth in the coming years, we are looking to expand our team with talented and passionate professionals.

Our Programme Advisory team works with some of the largest and most complex infrastructure programmes in the UK, supporting sectors such as Nuclear, Aviation, Defence, Water, Transportation, Power, and Renewables. We’re currently embedded in major UK programmes, including Hinkley Point C, Sizewell C, High Speed 2, TRU, and Thames Water.

Our clients face increasing pressure to drive productivity, improve performance, and reduce costs. We help them analyse their needs, create effective solutions through structures, processes, technology, and behaviours needed to turn their vision of a more streamlined operation into reality.

We pride ourselves on our collaborative approach, empowering our clients with trusted partnerships to solve complex challenges and ensure they are well-positioned for future success.

By joining our Programme Advisory team, you will be part of a genuinely collaborative environment where everyone is supported to maximise their talents. We believe in recognising everyone’s contributions equally while delivering excellence together., Wherever you are in your career - and whoever you are - AtkinsRéalis is for you. Here, support and collaboration are a vibrant part of a culture that lets you choose where - and how far - your career can go. Take on projects that push boundaries and drive sustainable impact, surrounded by colleagues who believe there’s no limit to how brilliant you can be. It’s time to join a like-minded team where you’ll be rewarded, supported, and free to be your kind of brilliant.

Rewards & benefits

Explore the rewards and benefits that help you thrive - at every stage of your life and your career. Enjoy competitive salaries, employee rewards and a brilliant range of benefits you can tailor to suit your own health, wellbeing, financial and lifestyle choices. Make the most of a myriad of opportunities for training and professional development to grow your skills and expertise. And combine our hybrid working culture and flexible holiday allowances to balance a great job and fulfilling personal life.

About AtkinsRéalis

We’re AtkinsRéalis, a world-class engineering services and nuclear organization. We connect people, data and technology to transform the world’s’infrastructure and energy systems. Together, with our industry partners and clients, and our global team of consultants, designers, engineers and project managers, we can change the world. We’re committed to leading our clients across our various end markets to engineer a better future for our planet and its people.