Our consultants have experience in working with the leading organisations in a number of key industries to help them identify insights, act on them and exploit commercial value.
Our consultants are not just committed to delivering results in the short term. We will work with you to ensure that you are able to benefit from the methodologies, toolkits and research every good consulting practice has at its fingertips. With deep industry and business process expertise, experienced resources and a proven track record, our consultants can make a difference quickly and effectively.
Collectively, our consultants have advised on and managed hundreds of millions of £’s of resource on behalf of their clients. Our consultants have worked in European and global management roles, at senior / board levels both as clients and within service providers, hence they bring with them a practical, real-world perspective.
This consutlant was engaged by a leading life assurer as Subject Matter Expert - Wealth Management incl Wraps.
He was the business lead responsible for overseeing the implementation of a critical business, IT and infrastructure development.
Key Responsibilities included:
Owner of the business content of this critical wealth management development.
Take on supporting responsibility for product management in the wealth management arena, utilizing investment management expertise and market knowledge.
Control and validation of detailed business requirements against proposition and product requirements.
Coordination and control of key stakeholders in sales, customer service and marketing.
Assist in the design and creation of the client's new ‘Investment Office’
This consultant was engaged in a major programme involving the creation of a new company into which outstanding liabilities from a major insurance market are now reinsured, as part of the Reconstruction and Renewal programme, rescuing the market from collapse.
Key Responsibilities included:
Programme managing the co-ordination between a multitude of inter dependent projects in a two year programme, supported by many professional services organisations.
Mitigating any risks that might delay or jeopardise quality of data.
This consultant was engaged in a programme management role supporting the sale, then mobilisation and design phases of a global implementation of a suite of Oracle HR & Financial systems for a major UK government office.
Key Responsibilities included:
Being involved in an extended nine month procurement exercise winning £50m+ contract.
Mobilising 25 worksteams with detailed planning for a team of more than 150 people.
For a major Financial Services organisation this consultant led a marketing organisational change programme which delivered annual cost savings of over £2.2m in two key areas - marketing spend and headcount.
Key responsibilities included:
Organisational review of the internal and external communications areas and spend (marketing, PR and channel)
Identification of ineffective working practices and spend together with the development of an opportunity assessment for improvements in 3 key areas - people, process, and procurement
Designed a target operating model for the communications area (objectives, budgeting, training and development, performance management and procurement)
Implemented new communications structure (redundancies, retraining, performance management system), and a more effective, targeted advertising programme (Audience, message, medium and rates).
Key achievements:
Saved £1.2m in headcount costs
Saved £1.0m in marketing advertising spend, whilst maintaining quality and accessibility for customers
