Location
London

Hours
Full Time

Salary
Negotiable

About the Role
What if you could do the kind of work the world needs? At WSP, you can access our global scale, contribute to landmark projects and connect with the brightest minds in your field to do the best work of your life. You can embrace your curiosity in a culture that celebrates new ideas and diverse perspectives. You can experience a world of opportunity and the chance to shape a career as unique as you.

Lexica (member of WSP) is a leading specialist consultancy, transforming environments for clients in health and life sciences. We help organisations become more efficient and effective in core sectors, whether improving patient pathways for the NHS, developing laboratories to facilitate world-leading science, or rationalising educational campuses to attract top students and research investment.

This Programme and Project Controls / PMO Senior Consultant role is responsible for supporting clients with the development and implementation of robust controls processes, procedures and tools to facilitate successful execution of projects, programmes, and portfolios. The role provides constructive challenge to delivery teams and undertakes analysis and assurance to support client decision making.

Key responsibilities include driving transparency and visibility of progress and performance across all project and programme lifecycle stages; analysing and interpreting performance data to identify trends and areas for further investigation; presenting data to non-technical stakeholders to support decision-making; overseeing programme controls and reporting systems including planning & scheduling, change control, risk and cost control; leading the setup and ongoing development of progress reporting processes and tools, including Power BI; developing and managing control processes and tools; supporting continuous improvement of internal portfolio, programme and project management processes; and supporting project and programme governance and assurance processes.

Experience
- Experience working in programme and project controls within major construction or infrastructure programmes
- Experience engaging with and translating programme data for diverse and challenging stakeholders
- Understanding of public sector programme and project delivery environments
- Experience working within a consultancy and developing PMO services
- Demonstrable experience presenting programme performance data using digital tools including Power BI

About you
- Excellent communication and facilitation skills
- Strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent analytical, problem solving, and organisational skills
- Eligible to achieve security clearance
- Health and life sciences experience is not essential but would be an advantage

Qualifications
- Preferably educated to degree or equivalent level in a relevant field
- Achieved or working towards a recognised Programme Management qualification (e.g. Risk Management, IRM, MoR, PRINCE2) or Project Management qualification (e.g. APM PMQ)

Additional Information
If you don’t quite meet all the criteria, we encourage you to apply so we can explore how your experience aligns with this role and other opportunities within the team.