Senior Business Consultant

Contract type: Permanent
Location: London
Working style: Hybrid 50% home/office based

We currently have an opportunity for a Senior Business Consultant to join the RLAM Business Consultancy team on a permanent basis in London. 

The Senior Business Consultant role at RLAM is responsible for taking high-level strategic ideas or concepts and using applied techniques and expert level insights to develop them further into fully formed and implementable strategies.

This would include matters such as:

• Negotiating with senior leaders/executives to agree a firm position on a given business development topic.
• Use applied techniques to lead assessments of viability/feasibility of any given concept, including costs/benefits/impacts
• Leading the organisation through complex strategic decisions on future operating model considerations, influencing timelines and expectations based on experience
• Leveraging experience to judge required resources to execute plans.
• Using expert insights and market intelligence to assist RLAM navigate through challenges.

About the role

• Strategic Alignment and Shaping
• Understand the strategic direction of the organisation and bring expert industry expertise and experience to further shape and detail the approach to strategic plans.
• Use applied techniques to lead assessments of viability/feasibility of any given concept, including costs/benefits/impacts
• Lead the organisation through complex strategic decisions on future operating model considerations
• Identify thematic operating model challenges that may impede RLAMs progress vs plan and seek to influence senior leaders to address issues holistically.
• Planning
• Develop high level plans and approaches, built from base concepts, providing information to enable future project portfolios to be created and planned for.
• Use expert insights and market intelligence to assist RLAM navigate through challenges.
• Leverage experience to judge required resources to execute plans.
• Influence the Enterprise Projects plan and budget elements during the production of the RLAM Business Plan, based on agreed plans/approaches.
• Analysis
• Provide a ‘toolkit’ of techniques and materials that facilitate exploring ideas/concepts
• Use advanced analysis and business architecture techniques to provide different lenses on any given topic (e.g. costs/impacts/maturity/risks etc)
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Collaborate with senior executives, Programme directors, risk teams, and external partners to support and influence the transformational agenda
• Influences and negotiates with stakeholders and sponsors to encourage them to participate, take ownership of deliverables and provide input as required.
• Lead senior leaders through complex strategic decisions using structured techniques and strong influencing skills.

About you

• A proven leader with a demonstrable track record of shaping complex change initiatives.

• Demonstrable experience relevant to leading on complex transformational change activity.
• Proven accountability for influencing/shaping strategic initiatives
• Proven advanced stakeholder management skills at all levels of the organisation including board level.
• A track record of establishing deliverables from the bottom up based solely on strategic objectives
• Demonstrable use of tools/techniques that can lead a senior audience through a complex business problem
• Expert knowledge of wider asset management industry and trends
• Strong facilitation skills and a proven ability to influence to ensure decisions are made in a timely and objective manner, reaching consensus decisions on strategic items.

About Royal London Asset Management

Royal London Asset Management (RLAM), part of the Royal London Group, is one of the UK's leading fund management companies working with a wide range of clients across the globe to achieve their investment goals. Our long-term, client-driven focus means that we have a long-standing commitment to responsible investment. We act as responsible stewards of our clients’ capital, exercising their rights and influencing positive change. 

Our People Promise to our colleagues is that we will all work somewhere inclusive, responsible, enjoyable and fulfilling. This is underpinned by our Spirit of Royal London values; Empowered, Trustworthy, Collaborate, Achieve. 

We've always been proud to reward employees by offering great workplace benefits such as 28 days annual leave in addition to bank holidays, an up to 14% employer matching pension scheme and private medical insurance.

Inclusion, diversity and belonging

We’re an inclusive employer. We celebrate and value different backgrounds and cultures across Royal London. Our diverse people and perspectives give us a range of skills which are recognised and respected – whatever their background.