Job Description

Job title: Senior Consultant, TfL Consulting

Salary: \xc2\xa350,000 - \xc2\xa360,000

Location: Palestra, London SE1 (Hybrid Model/in line with TfL Policy)

Contract type: Permanent, TfL Band 3

The role

We have an exciting opportunity to join Transport for London\xe2\x80\x99s (TfL) Consulting team. We manage and deliver commercial projects for UK and overseas clients external to TfL \xe2\x80\x93 cities, governments, operators, consultancy companies \xe2\x80\x93 to help them improve the transport services of their communities.

We have a growing portfolio of diverse and high-profile projects across the globe, covering a vast range of activities where TfL is sought out for our world-leading expertise. TfL Consulting brings together teams of experts from across TfL and manage projects to ensure they are high quality, on time and to budget for our external clients. We also support TfL in commercialising products and services developed in-house, supporting TfL\xe2\x80\x99s financial sustainability.

This role is for you if you would enjoy leading on compelling and persuasive bids that sell TfL\xe2\x80\x99s experts\xe2\x80\x99 experience, managing projects that exceed our clients\xe2\x80\x99 expectations and delivering top-quality commercial, financial and technical results in projects. You will regularly work with clients, colleagues and other stakeholders, so you will need to be an excellent communicator across different media. You\xe2\x80\x99ll also need to uphold our contractual commitments to clients while minimising risk to TfL and have meticulous project management capabilities. We welcome bright, curious and motivated people with a bias to action to work with us on achieving our shared goals.

We\xe2\x80\x99re eager to hear from you if you to have capabilities across the skills, knowledge and experience described below. We also know that there is lots of value in sharing knowledge and innovating across sectors, so we will consider transferable skills, knowledge and experience.

Your skills

\xc2\xb7 Communication: you\xe2\x80\x99ll be a good listener, can build rapport with clients and colleagues by translating client requirements into clear and concise plans, actions and deliverables.

\xc2\xb7 Project management: you\xe2\x80\x99ll be a brilliant planner, organising and managing resources to deliver projects to time, cost and quality and creatively solve problems, ensuring your projects are fully compliant with Safety, Health & Environment, commercial, legal and governance requirements.

\xc2\xb7 Commercial acumen: you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to see opportunities to create value for clients that bring revenue into TfL, with the ability to thrive in a target-driven performance-focused commercial environment. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be the consultant, not the client.

\xc2\xb7 Data: you\xe2\x80\x99ll be able to assimilate information rapidly and manage complex data to draw clear and concise insight and help it tell a compelling story and impart a message. You\xe2\x80\x99ll be comfortable with gathering and using different sorts of data and understanding its strengths and weaknesses.

Your knowledge

\xc2\xb7 Transport: you\xe2\x80\x99ll have an understanding and interest in different transport industry sectors and how transport systems operate in cities, as well as knowledge of TfL\xe2\x80\x99s unique selling points. Your transport knowledge is wide-ranging, covering engineering, modelling and IT through to communications, behaviour change and safety.

\xc2\xb7 Contracts: you may know your way around contracts, having reviewed and negotiated for consultancy-type projects, managed delivery to commitments and targets throughout the lifecycle of a project, and managed an organisation\xe2\x80\x99s exposure to risk in collaboration with a legal team.

\xc2\xb7 Consultancy: you\xe2\x80\x99ll know how consultancy works, how to manage business relationships with clients, how to run profitable and successful projects or concession contracts and understand delivery and commercial risk.

\xc2\xb7 Technical expertise: we are particularly interested to hear from you if you have a successful track record as a project manager in a matrixed environment, experience as a specialist in managing complex contracts, have brought innovative products to market, have delivered online learning solutions or have a background in transport or management consultancy.

Your experience

\xc2\xb7 Leadership: you\xe2\x80\x99ll have developed the confidence and awareness to manage people and projects in face-to-face and online settings. You\xe2\x80\x99ll have managed workshops, and led meetings, with stakeholders.

\xc2\xb7 Delivery: you\xe2\x80\x99ll have successfully delivered bids/projects as a consultant or a project manager in complex settings with multiple stakeholders and competing pressures.

\xc2\xb7 Communication: you\xe2\x80\x99ll be an excellent communicator, able to demonstrate your experience in engaging and persuading a wide variety of audiences using different channels and techniques.

\xc2\xb7 Commercial: you\xe2\x80\x99ll ideally have experience negotiating budgets, assessing risk and managing, tracking and delivering contracts.

Equality, diversity and inclusion

We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We want to represent the city we serve, bringing innovation and efficiency to serve London. Our goal is to make our recruitment fully inclusive. We are a flexible and disability confident employer and guarantee an interview to any disabled candidate who meets all of the essential criteria. We use anonymising software that removes identifying information from CVs and cover letters to make the process fair.

Application process

\xc2\xb7 Please apply using your CV and a covering letter, each a maximum two pages. Word format is preferred and do not include photographs or images.

The closing date for applications is Tuesday, 19 September @ 23:59

We will be holding an online Insight session on Friday, 15th September from 11:30-12:30 to share more information about the role and the team, and provide a chance for prospective applicants to ask any questions. If you are interested in attending or receiving a link to a recording, please register your interest here:

Benefits:

In return for your commitment and expertise, you will enjoy excellent benefits working for the most integrated city transport authority in the world. Rewards vary according to the business area but mostly include:

\xc2\xb7 Final salary pension scheme

\xc2\xb7 Free travel for you on the TfL network

\xc2\xb7 A 75% discount on National Rail Season Ticket and interest free loan

\xc2\xb7 30 days annual leave plus public and bank holidays

\xc2\xb7 Private healthcare discounted scheme (optional)

\xc2\xb7 Tax-efficient cycle-to-work programme

\xc2\xb7 Retail, health, leisure and travel offers

\xc2\xb7 Discounted Eurostar travel

We will make every effort to give you as much notice as possible, however some interviews/assessments could be organised at short notice.

We may close this advert early if we receive a high volume of suitable applications.

Transport for London