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About the Role
The Competency Centre Manager plays a key leadership and management role, responsible for developing, deploying, and supporting consulting talent within Methods’ IT Enterprise Services. This role involves acquiring top talent, enabling career progression, and ensuring project teams are staffed with the best individuals at the right time and cost, while maintaining high utilization rates. The manager collaborates with Project Delivery, Sales, and Operations to drive recruitment, resource planning, skills development, and capability growth.
Responsibilities
- Build a recruitment strategy in collaboration with sales and delivery to support company growth.
- Execute the recruitment plan, leading interviews and assessments to build a high-quality pipeline of new recruits.
- Build and maintain a steady pipeline of consultant candidates and proactively recruit top talent.
- Manage the onboarding and probation process for new consultants.
- Manage the bench & overall team utilization with a business-focused approach.
- Ensure accurate and timely reporting and communication with all functions.
- Collaborate with finance and operational leads on budgeting and workforce planning.
- Act as escalation point for consultant professional and personal issues.
- Contribute to continuous improvement.
- Support professional growth through coaching, feedback, appraisals, and career development plans.
- Ensure training needs are identified and addressed.
- Keep the skills matrix updated.
- Support the development and promotion of service offers aligned with team capabilities.
- Work closely with sales and bid teams to support business development opportunities.
- Align consultants with the right assignments/projects based on their skills, experience, and project requirements.
- Foster a positive and collaborative team culture.
- Encourage knowledge sharing through mentoring and training.
- Support career planning and professional development.
- Maintain regular engagement with consultants.
- Promote wellbeing and provide support with absence management.
- Ensure compliance with HR policies and guidelines.
- Monitor and track consultant performance.
- Promote diversity and inclusion.
Requirements
- Minimum of five years’ experience in a leadership, team management, or capability management role, preferably within consulting or the public sector.
- Strong experience in resource and team management, workforce planning, and bench utilisation management.
- Demonstrated success in recruitment strategy development and execution, including interviewing and hiring high-performing consultants.
- Track record of managing team budgets, headcount planning, and performance targets.
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and build trusted relationships across the organisation.
- Strong people management skills with the ability to coach, mentor, and develop consultants.
- Ability to deliver accurate, timely reporting across multiple stakeholders.
- Must have or be willing to go through Security Clearance.
Skills
- Recruitment strategy development
- Recruitment execution
- Interviewing
- Consultant assessment
- Resource management
- Team management
- Workforce planning
- Bench utilization management
- Budget management
- Headcount planning
- Performance target management
- Influencing
- Negotiation
- Relationship building
- People management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
- Consultant development
- Reporting
Location
- UK-based
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of five years’ experience in a leadership, team management, or capability management role
Salary/Compensations
- £100M+ IT Services Consultancy
Benefits
- Wellness 24/7 Confidential employee assistance programme.
- Social events: Breakfast Tuesdays, Thirsty Thursdays, Pizza on the last Thursday of each month.
- Commitment to charitable causes.
- 25 days of time off per year.
- Pension Salary Exchange Scheme with 4% employer contribution and 5% employee contribution.
- Life Assurance of 4 times base salary.
- Private Medical Insurance (non-contributory, spouse and dependants included).
About the Company
- Methods is a £100M+ IT Services Consultancy that has partnered with central government departments and agencies for over 30 years to transform the UK public sector.
- The company applies skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.
- Methods emphasizes a human touch, with people, technology, and data at its core, aiming to create value and sustainability for clients, staff, communities, and the planet.
- The company supports client project success through collaborative problem-solving and learning from mistakes.
- Predominantly focused on the public sector, Methods is expanding its private sector client portfolio.
- Methods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.