Principal Consultant - Public Sector Practice - Big4

1) Project delivery

- On allocated accounts, contribute to/lead teams and ensure successful client delivery, including identifying and addressing emerging issues, securing deployment of adequate and appropriate resources, delivering all client commitments within time/budget constraints, effective reporting and meeting/exceeding PwC's client service and quality standards.

- Identify additional opportunities that maybe be strategic and viable for PwC

- Assist with advising teams on the best use of project management disciplines and approaches and act as the first point of contact for any program management queries

- Develop positive relationships with teams to enable the PMO to provide support including facilitation, tracking and reporting on projects, and training

- Assist with establishing PMO stakeholder management plan and implementation of the communication framework

- Act as a reference point for PMO queries and information and an advocate for best practices in project management

- Share lessons learned and best practices across programs, building relationships with stakeholders and brokering relationships at all levels

- Coordination of project Governance arrangements, Post Project Reviews, Programme level workshops

2) Team development: Contribute to building the team by mentoring, retaining, attracting, and developing some of the best available talent.

3) Business Development: Work, in a collaborative manner, alongside the campaign leaders and other teams to pursue and respond to client opportunities.

Desired Candidate Competencies:

- Setting benchmarks independent of and beyond best practice, based on understanding of what is possible

- Taking a systematic, structured view of situations

- Driving to root causes and able to identify trends, process improvement opportunities and broader business implications.

- Demonstrating willingness to - get hands dirty- and developing a problem-solving attitude.

- Plans, manages and drives own efforts to successfully deliver client commitments.

- Willingness and ability to handle multiple projects with competing deadlines, working with individuals who have different working styles, and managing challenging expectations.

- Taking ownership of each project by doing what is needed at all phases of the process, anticipating next steps and not waiting to be told what to do.

- Ability to prioritize in own workload to realign resources where/when needed.

- Demonstrating a partnering mentality in working with management teams.

- Communicating passion, energy, intensity, and excitement in a direct, apolitical, way.

- Impressive intellectual capabilities, committed to high standards for personal and professional contribution.

- High client delivery orientation, standards and values, driven to exceed expectations.

- Strong personal and professional presence and self-confidence, capable of working effectively with senior team as well as all other levels.

- High drive, energy and work ethic; creative, flexible and adaptive in leading change.

- Engaging interpersonal style and excellent relationship building skills, with the desire and ability to coach and mentor team members.

- Superior communications skills, including writing and stand-up presentation (scripted or extempore).

Skills required:

- PMO experience and knowledge of project management

- Thorough knowledge of MS Excel and other project management tools

- Proven record of timeliness in providing reports to all stakeholders

- Proven experience in providing service to internal stakeholders to achieve successful project outcomes

- Understanding of project delivery and acceptance processes within a fast-paced business environment

- Strong communications skills, both written and verbal

- Understanding of the importance for detail and organisation

- Very good prioritisation skills to balance key priorities

- A strong customer centric approach

- A PMP/Prince 2 certification preferred

Education and Experience:

- The candidate should possess 2-3 years (for consultant), 4-6 years (for Senior Consultant)_ and 6+ years (for Manager) of post-qualification relevant experience of working in a top tier Strategy/Consulting/IT/ITES firm

- Strong client delivery orientation, clean reputation and credibility with key clients in their space for delivering client value.

- Hands-on approach to Project management

- Experience of working with Indian Government/Agencies is preferred. However this will not be a mandatory requirement.

- History of strong academic performance, preferably in top tier engineering and Business Schools; advanced degree preferred.