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If you selectthis location as an external applicant your application will, unfortunately, be withdrawn.)\nContract Type: Permanent\nHours: Full Time\nClosing Date: 09/11/16\nInterview Date(s): WC 30th November (subject to change)\n The successful candidate must hold or be eligible to obtain UK Security Check (SC) clearance.\nInsight into GCA - Webinar \nWatch our Webinar on the above link and gain valuable insight into GCA and our recruitment processes.\nWe are looking for an enthusiastic and highly adaptable individual to join our high performing Consultancy Operations team in helping the Complex Transactions Team (CTT) Director deliver strategic transformation, operational excellence, and tangible commercial savings across our client engagements.\nJob Summary\nAs our new Consultancy Transformation & Operations Lead, you will take the lead on CTT’s internal operational engine. From designing and embedding business systems to managing commercial benefits governance, safeguarding critical information assets, and driving thought leadership across the consultancy practice, your work will directly empower our consultants and shape public sector delivery.\nIf you are ready to drive continuous improvement in a dynamic internal consultancy environment, apply today to join our team.\nKey Accountabilities:\n1) Driving Efficiency, Continuous Improvement & Business Systems\nSystems Architecture & Implementation: Lead the end-to-end design, delivery, and enhancement of CTT internal business systems, workflow platforms, and operational tools, ensuring they support seamless project tracking and reporting. \nContinuous Improvement Frameworks: Establish and embed a continuous improvement culture across CTT, regularly reviewing operational workflows to simplify processes, eliminate friction, and reduce administrative overhead. \nUser Adoption & Change Enablement: Act as the primary champion for business systems within CTT, delivering training, user support, and change management strategies to ensure high adoption rates and data integrity across all consultancy teams.\nOperational Analytics: Develop and maintain operational dashboards providing SMT with real-time visibility over team utilisation, pipeline tracking, delivery milestones, and resource allocation.\n2) Information Asset Manager (IAM) for CTT\nInformation Asset Governance: Perform the formal role of Information Asset Manager for CTT, identifying, registering, and maintaining a complete inventory of business critical information assets. Carrying out risk based compliance and conducting regular reviews and audits of asset access permissions, data storage protocols, and retention schedules in CTT.\n3) Commercial Benefits Governance\nCommercial Benefits Accountability: Full responsibility for tracking, validating, and reporting all commercial savings and cost avoidance generated through CTT's client engagements across government.\n4) CTT Account Development Lead Support\nDevelopment of CTT’s sales pipeline: Support the three Account Development Leads strategies to elevate CTT visibility and market engagement across Central Government departments, Local Authorities, NHS and Arms Length Bodies. \n5) Consultancy Practice Leadership & Knowledge Management\nPractice Knowledge Repository: Design, curate, and maintain CTT’s central knowledge repository, template library, and project archive, ensuring instant accessibility to reusable tools, frameworks, and past deliverables. \nConsultancy Methodology Standards: Develop and update standard CTT consultancy toolkits, playbooks, and delivery methodologies to maintain consistent quality across all client-facing projects.\nPractice Capability & Onboarding: Provide tools and onboarding support to new and existing CTT consultants, fostering a culture of peer learning, knowledge sharing, and professional excellence.\nLessons Learned & Archiving: Establish systematic post-engagement debriefs and archiving workflows to capture client outcomes, reusable artifacts, and strategic learnings.\n6) Travel\nOccasional business travel will be expected outside of work location.\nEssential Criteria (to be assessed at application stage):\nConsultancy Operations & Practice Management: Proven track record in managing internal operations, practice enablement, knowledge repositories, or business systems within a management consultancy, professional services firm, or internal consultancy unit. \nCommercial Benefits Governance: Demonstrated experience in tracking, assuring and validating commercial savings/cost avoidance, with the gravitas to challenge and secure sign-off from senior stakeholders. \nSystems Implementation & Process Improvement: Hands-on experience in designing, implementing, and embedding operational workflow software, CRM/ERP systems, or data dashboards to optimise service delivery. \nStakeholder Engagement & Comms: Strong communications experience, with a track record of building awareness, authoring thought leadership.\nInformation Governance Awareness: Understanding of information asset management, data protection, and security compliance principles.\nSuccess Profiles (to be assessed at interview):\nBehaviours:\nDelivering at Pace\nChanging and Improving (lead success profile)\nMaking effective decisions\nCommunicating and Influencing\nExperience\n(A link to the Civil Service Success Profiles Framework is provided below)\nSuccess Profiles Framework\nValuing our people:\nCompetitive salary \nGenerous pension scheme\nA discretionary non-contractual performance related bonus \nWorking remotely in addition to working in advertised office location\nFlexi time scheme (available for B1-B6)\nMinimum 25 days annual leave to a maximum service related 30 days excluding bank holidays\nWant to make a difference? Find out more about the rewarding work that we do in ourcandidate pack.\nThe Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see theCivil Service People Plan and theCivil Service D&I Strategy.\nWe want to make our recruitment process accessible to everyone, so if there is any way that we can support you, please contact \nWorking flexibly, delivering outcomes\nGCA operates a smarter working model that balances flexibility with collaboration. Successful candidates are expected to spend at least 26 days per quarter (approximately 2 days per week, pro-rata) at their contracted office, another GCA site, or off-site for meetings. For the remainder of the time, you may work from home or another suitable location that meets business needs.\nArtificial Intelligence\nArtificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see ourcandidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.\nSelection Process\nA reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, which the Civil Service may use to fill future suitably similar vacancies across government for candidates who are considered appointable following interview. Should you be placed on a reserve list and want to be removed please contact .\nPlease note that as part of this recruitment process, if you are unsuccessful at the interview stage but are close to the benchmark score you may be considered for and offered a role at a lower pay band within the same job family.\n#GCAIND\nWorking for the Civil Service\nThe Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.\nComplaints Procedure\nOur recruitment processes are underpinned by the principle of selection for appointment on merit on the basis of fair and open competition as outlined in the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles details of which can be found athttps://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/recruitment-principles/\nIf you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles, and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact  in the first instance.\nIf you remain unsatisfied with the response you receive you can then contact the Civil Service Commission at \nInternal candidates should apply using their Workday account. 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