Director

Nous is a great place to work…

Nous Group is an international management consultancy with over 700 people working across the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We are a values-based organisation that is inspired and determined to improve people’s lives in significant ways. Working in unique, cross-disciplinary teams we create innovative and enduring solutions that transform businesses, governments, and communities. We realise a bigger idea of success.

Nous is regularly acknowledged as a Great Place to Work as part of competitive workplace reviews. In 2023 Nous was named Best Workplace by Great Place to Work in every country we operate, with the UK team being recognised in its category as Best Workplace overall, Best Workplace for Development and Best Workplace for Women. 

We are looking for an experienced Director just like you…

As a Director, you will be responsible for building client relationships and securing and managing projects, as well as driving thought leadership in your areas of expertise. You will have experience and an appetite to grow our business through your existing relationships where your ability to leverage your networks will develop new professional relationships for Nous. Working with Nous colleagues, you will be able to extend your relationships into new clients and grow your professional network further. You will contribute significantly to project content and direction, and in the design and structure of client solutions.

In this role you will also have opportunity to mentor and coach less experienced consultants to assist in their ongoing growth and development on projects at Nous.

You are: 

• Passionate and driven: delivering ideas that matter and creating positive influence, in an environment that values diversity and thrives on creativity 

• Innovative: keeping abreast of latest developments in your areas of expertise and contributing to their implementation on projects to support innovation

• A strong contributor: you bring active and early contribution to the thinking, writing and quality of compelling client deliverables

• Knowledgeable: in an emerging area of specialisation to shape compelling ideas and solutions to clients

 And the practical experience: 

• 10+ years experience in a related role, including 5+ years in consulting 

• Proven experience working on higher education projects in the UK

• Ideally have experience in the field of transformation and change, digital and AI, or both. Look under Work at nousgroup.com for details of our capability areas and sectors

• A strategic thinker with experience in discovery, service design and delivery

• Effective project management of medium-large and complex projects & programmes concurrently, with project direction of smaller projects

• Strong analytical skills and the capacity to interpret complex qualitative and quantitative data

• Commercial mindset, understanding/experience of business challenges

• Ability to produce high quality client materials in short period of time

• Effective relationship manager

The work:

 Below is a snapshot of recent projects that you could be working on in our UK office:    

Higher Education:  

• Developed an operating model design for a large Russell Group University with a focus on academic administration and professional services. Through discovery and design, we co-developed a service catalogue and new ways of working with a focus on user experience.

• Undertook an evaluation of a university’s innovation ecosystem to better understand efficacy and impact within a global context. The report benchmarked ecosystem performance considering inputs, outputs and outcomes against global leading practice to identify what more the university could do to deliver against government and stakeholder expectations

• Worked with a university’s transformation office to provide strategy and delivery support, progressing projects aimed at improving student experience and uplifting the capability in the team. We established a best-practice PMO and provided hands on support to progress projects on assessment and feedback, attendance monitoring and engagement, curriculum management and direct mark entry, critically moving several projects out of the 'red' risk status

Government: 

• Leading Masterclasses on an ongoing basis with cohorts of newly appointed CEOs of public bodies, helping them explore the intricacies of leading arm's length bodies through challenging times

• Ran a ‘red team’ review of a major defence programme, drawing on Nous’ global experts to challenge the status quo

• Conducted a data maturity assessment for an arm’s-length body to make recommendations on how they can better use data to make informed decisions  

• Co-designed and facilitated a whole-of-organisation leadership development programme for a public body to build capability, shift culture, and embed the organisation's new strategy

Finally, the important details…

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from people of all backgrounds. Nous is a flexible workplace that offers consulting opportunities on a full-time and part-time basis.  

We seek people who demonstrate an ability to work effectively with individuals with diverse backgrounds. We are committed to diversity and inclusion demonstrated through our active partnership with 10,000 Black Interns.  

If you enjoy working on complex problems and want to be part of a dynamic team that puts people at the centre of everything, then we'd love to hear from you! Please click Apply.  

To apply for a role at Nous in London you must have the right to work in the UK.   

Please note if you are successful in the recruitment process, you will be required to undertake background screening prior to your commencement at Nous.