Principal Consultant - Health and Local Government

We are excited about the future of public services, and partner with health and local authorities to deliver meaningful transformation at pace that has a tangible positive impact on the people they serve. Our consulting teams work at the heart of public services to improve experiences and outcomes for people, and reduce spend by delivering the right care in the right place. We will be typically working on either an intense diagnostic or on multi-year, multi-million-pound transformation programmes with the guarantee of a delivery outcome to our clients. This can be for example building new services and ways of working, improving hospital flow, improving care pathways to maximise independence, or making the shift to proactive preventative approaches. 

It is crucial that we understand the client fully to identify the biggest opportunity for improvement, design the right solutions and work hand-in-hand with the client to implement these in a way that is sustainable. We work where our client works which can often mean working away from home during the week.  

As a Principal Consultant in Newton, you will be leading your client and team through complex delivery transformation with accountability for delivering a significant value to the client which could be ~£5m. You will be typically managing a team of multi-disciplined consultants across multiple workstreams. You will have been building your presence as a leader in your current organisation, putting significant effort into developing your team and starting to develop your business development skills through things like spotting opportunities for future work.

The role is incredibly varied but would typically cover, but not be limited to:

· For a large part of a programme or a small engagement, you will be managing a larger team (up to 8) including matrix management, designing the workstreams (alongside your line manager) that your Lead Consultants and below will deliver, leading senior clients and sponsors on a journey, seeking to assure them of project progress and achieving full client satisfaction

· Leading on programme governance including reporting, risk/issue/decision management and stakeholder engagement including managing upwards and escalating risks

· Starting to own part of an account plan and working with other programme leads to define outcomes for connected workstreams as a part of a wider programme

· Steering your team on the analysis and modelling that needs to happen to identify and/or deliver the opportunity and leading them to create a compelling data-driven narrative at a programme and organisation-wide level and then supporting them with presenting this to the senior client

· Proactively leaning in to develop your teams, considering their long-term career aspirations and development goals and how you can best support them

· Proactively identifying how your project team can contribute to wider market and account engagement activities and progressing this ‘side of desk’ in support of your account leadership team

 Successful recruitment will see you hired into our Public Cluster. During your onboarding the cluster will commit to scheduling you into the right client programmes with the right support to adapt to Newton’s core approach to programme delivery. Once you are fully onboarded there will be opportunities to work more broadly across our other markets in line with business needs.