Strategic Program Manager

Job Title: Strategic Program Manager / Management Consultant (Financial Modeling)

Client Location: London - hybrid

Starting: April 2025

Salary/Pay Rate: £225 daily PAYE

Duration: until 31st December 2025

Job Description:

Role title: Management Consultant

Primarily responsible for providing oversight and administration of a programme or project. Defines client needs, determines a strategy for addressing those needs, develops a plan/proposal for the delivery of the programme or project, and executes its delivery. Undertakes executive presentations to present the key findings and recommendations of the final deliverables

Under the guidance of the Programme Owner, you will be responsible for working directly with internal customers to provide ad hoc support and execute predefined programmes, including:

Responsibilities

Managing and executing the following in-flight programmes:
• Value Composer User Help Desk – Provide white-glove service, assisting users with the delivery of customer engagements by supporting office hours, "rational checks," and technical support
• Tools Roadmap – Collect value audience feedback and manage a recommendation backlog, including identifying and creating technical backlog items
• Roadshows and Workshops – Support the development and management of workshops, including creating agendas, designing activities (design thinking), and summarising findings into final deliverables and recommendations
• Business Case Help Desk (white-glove service)
• Guide and assist internal customers struggling with internal value calculation software
• Assist users in developing bespoke value calculations – this requires creating a hypothesis of how internal customer objectives can be turned into quantifiable outcomes, conducting research to support assumptions and calculations, building the financial calculation model in internal calculation software (similar to Excel or Google Sheets), and ratifying the model with the internal customer
• Business Case Calculator Roadmap Curation – Collect value audience feedback and manage a recommendation backlog, including identifying and creating technical backlog items
• Analytics and Visualisation – Conduct limited analytics on smaller data sets (which can be completed within Excel) and collaborate with a senior data analyst and data scientist to port information into dashboards that you create and maintain (dashboards will be in Power BI)

Skills & Qualifications
• Ability to design a financial/economic model, typically requiring:
• A bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, Statistical Modelling, Analytics, or a related field
• At least two years' experience in a role involving designing and building financial models of economic benefits
• At least two years' experience conducting primary and secondary research
• Strong ability to work directly with internal customers and teams
• At least two years' experience in a customer-facing role providing direct customer support
• Excellent presentation skills, including public speaking, meeting facilitation, and whiteboarding
• Ability to work remotely with teams across different time zones and locations, typically requiring:
• A collaborative and team-oriented approach
• Executive presence with a humble demeanour
• Previous consulting experience is a plus

If this sounds like you, contact the Aquent team today!

The next steps will be shared with shortlisted candidates. Thank you for taking the time to apply.

Client Description:

Our Client is an American software company that offers businesses cloud computing solutions to manage digital workflows. Their innovations have streamlined working processes for 80% of the Fortune 500 alongside over 5000 other companies around the world including American Express, Deloitte, Experian, MGM, the NHS, Vodafone, and Wayfair.

Aquent is dedicated to improving inclusivity & is proudly an equal opportunities employer. We encourage applications from under-represented groups & are committed to providing support to applicants with disabilities. We aim to provide reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, to those with a medical condition, disability or neurodivergence.