Apprentice Management Consultant

Summary

As a Management Consultant in our Business Transformation team, you will help our clients solve their most pressing problems by utilising bold, digitally enabled solutions that positively impact people, the planet and profit.

Annual wage: £24,550 a year
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Training course: Improvement practitioner (level 4)
Hours: Monday to Friday between 9am to 5pm.
37 hours a week
Possible start date: Monday 1 September
Duration: 1 year 4 months
Positions available: 2

Work

As an apprentice, you’ll work at a company and get hands-on experience. You’ll gain new skills and work alongside experienced staff.

What you’ll do at work

Our Management Consultant Apprentices will have the opportunity to gain great skills and responsibilities from the very beginning within the Business Transformation Team. Our Apprentices will support our Business Transformation team members in our cross-industry projects and programmes. There are no set day-to-day responsibilities due to the flexible nature of responding to our client’s needs, however, our apprentices will have the opportunity to learn by:

Support senior team members to deliver high-quality deliverables and outputs to help address our client’s challenges.
Support and facilitate our client engagements, developing key communication skills
Playing a key role in developing reports and providing key recommendations to advisors on our client’s challenges
Assisting our project and commission leaders to ensure projects are successfully delivered
Helping the Business Transformation team innovate and grow our solutions and services to provide excellent client experiences
Support the growth of our services communities
Identifying opportunities to learn, grow and develop using our internal communities, team members and training materials

Where you’ll work

80

Fenchurch Street

London

EC3M 4BY

Training

An apprenticeship includes regular training with a college or other training organisation. At least 20% of your working hours will be spent training or studying.

College or training organisation

HAWK MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED

Your training course

Improvement practitioner (level 4)

Equal to higher national certificate (HNC)

Course contents

Compliance: Work in accordance with organisational controls and statutory regulations
Communication: Speak and write clearly. Influence others, question effectively. Plan and deliver meetings presenting insight to engage audiences
Coaching: Observe, listen, use questioning, provide feedback and spot learning opportunities
Project management: Define, sequence, plan and schedule activities with phases and milestones. Estimate effort and duration. Create and update project charter. Review progress
Change management: Sponsorship contract, surface and manage resistance, build compelling narratives for change, assess change impact
Principals and Methods: Select and apply a structured method and appropriate improvement tools engaging with subject matter experts to deliver business benefits
Project selection and Scoping: Support the identification of improvement opportunity and the scoping of these projects
Problem definition: Support development of problem/opportunity statements
Voice of the customer: Support application of techniques to identify and prioritise customers, their requirements and ensure balance against the stated and unstated needs of the business (Voice of the Business)
Process mapping & analysis: Process map to measure and analyse flow and value. Identify interfaces, functional responsibilities and ownership. Use insight to identify potential opportunities and map future state
Lean tools: Seek in-process waste through understanding of value within the value stream
Measurements systems: Plan, carry out and assess results of a measurement system study
Data acquisition for analysis: Develop a sampling strategy
Basic statistics & measures: Use graphical analysis to understand distribution and stability
Data analysis-statistical methods: Identify data-types and select analysis methods and tools. Assess time series data stability and analyse making relevant insight
Process capability & performance: Select methods and metrics for analysis
Root cause analysis: Select and apply the appropriate graphical tool dependent on the data type to identify patterns, trends and signals to establish hypothesis
Experimentation & optimisation: Plan designed experiment with clear objectives, and appropriate levels of Measurement Systems Analysis, analyse experiment data and optimise
Identification & prioritisation: Identify and prioritise factors, ideas and solutions
Data analysis – SPC: Select and apply appropriate tools for ongoing monitoring and control. Analyse and interpret control charts
Benchmarking: Conduct structured benchmarking to support target setting
Sustainability & control: Identify failure modes and embed learning from improvements

Your training plan

On this apprenticeship you will complete the Level 4 Improvement Practitioner standard through our agreed training provider, Hawk Training. This will be delivered on a day release basis.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE in:

English (grade Grade 4 or Above)
Maths (grade Grade 4 or Above)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Communication skills
IT skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Problem solving skills
Analytical skills
Logical
Team working
Initiative

About this company

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets. We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

After this apprenticeship

On completion of the Level 4, there is progression onto a Level 6 Chartered Manager Apprenticeship.

Following the apprenticeship, the apprentice can either develop further in their specialism or explore other routes and opportunities across our business.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

HAWK MANAGEMENT (UK) LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000288563.

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Closes on Friday 17 January

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Company’s application instructions

Applications should be submitted online. Early application is encouraged as we reserve the right to close roles before the deadline stated.

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