Berkeley Partnership, The

Address:

  • 48 Chancery Lane
  • London
  • WC2A 1JF

Telephone Number:

020 7643 5800

Fax Number:

020 7935 1892

Website:

Berkeley Partnership website, Management Consulting Careers at Berkeley

Email:

enquiries@berkeleypartnership.com

General Description:

The Berkeley Partnership is a London based management consultancy that takes pride in delivering long term success for its clients. Since its formation in 1990, Berkeley has helped some of the UK’s leading businesses to develop their strategies, mobilise resources and deliver major programmes of change. Working alongside clients, Berkeley helps management to address their most complex challenges.

Berkeley has built a strong reputation, not only for meeting demanding delivery challenges and getting good results, but for being enjoyable to work with. Berkeley has long running client relationships, with over 95% of work coming as repeat business or referrals.

Activities:

Berkeley helps organisations to shape and deliver significant change to their business, and supports clients across the full lifecycle of business change - from developing business strategy to implementation. Berkeley’s services encompass business strategy, IT strategy, programme management, project management and change management.

Berkeley’s approach to strategy consulting focuses on working alongside client teams - not “telling clients what their strategy should be” but ensuring success by maximising engagement and building strong ownership of the strategy with key stakeholders. Great care is taken to tailor the best approach in the belief that no two strategy exercises are the same, as different businesses invariably face different kinds of constraints, challenges and choices, influencing the best approach to be taken.

Visit Berkeley’s online strategy health check to help assess whether your strategy is set up for success.

Berkeley has experience of delivering national and global programmes, with team sizes in the 100’s and budgets in £100m’s. Its consultants are all highly experienced, having spent an average of 12 years leading (or managing key elements of) large change programmes. They can quickly assess where a programme needs most support, and take the firm action needed to get it back on track.

Visit Berkeley’s project assurance diagnostic toolkit, based on deep knowledge and experience of what makes a project succeed or fail.

The nature of Berkeley’s involvement varies depending on the clients' capabilities, from an extended programme management role to simply providing a short project review. London-based consultants can provide support for just a few weeks or over a longer period, for example taking an interim position while clients find a permanent resource.

Berkeley is always looking for experienced consultants to join the team. What attracts people to join The Berkeley Partnership is the chance to do great work in a truly collegiate and supportive environment. The firm’s growth has been deliberately managed over many years to retain the values and culture that make Berkeley different, and great care is taken to hire people who share those values and fit naturally into that culture.

Ranked number 9 in The Sunday Times 2012 survey of the 100 best small companies to work for, Berkeley believes they have a unique employee offer that differentiates them from other consulting firms:

  • Berkeley gives their consultants a variety of roles and challenging work for prestigious clients; while most firms drive towards specialising, consultants are encouraged to broaden their expertise, across industries and across the project lifecycle from strategy to delivery
  • Nobody at Berkeley has any individual sales or utilisation targets. This promotes a collaborative approach to business development and allows the highest levels of integrity to remain intact.
  • There isn’t a hierarchy or bureaucracy, with no consultant grades and no managing partner. Berkeley organises to meet the needs of clients as appropriate.
  • Berkeley provides excellent personal development and career progression, and the opportunity to become a partner in a true partnership as all partners are promoted from within.
  • Berkeley works hard to keep it an enjoyable place to work. It is collaborative rather than competitive, where everyone counts and is encouraged to seek and to give help and advice to others.

If you’re interested in a management consulting career at Berkeley, visit the website to hear consultants speak for themselves on work and life at Berkeley. It is also quick and easy to apply online.

Key Personnel:

Meet the Partners at the Berkeley Partnership.

UK Office Locations:

England

  • Greater London

Consultancy Services:

 Strategy

  • Corporate/Business Strategy
  • Business Planning
  • Operational/Functional Strategy 
  • IS/IT Strategy

Mobilisation & Shaping

  • Programme Definition and Initiation
  • Feasibility Analysis
  • Process and Organisational Design
  • IS/IT Architecture/Design
  • Resourcing and Supplier Selection
  • Business Case Development

Programme Delivery

  • Definition and Planning
  • Programme & Project Management
  • Programme & Project Review
  • Project Turnaround
  • Risk Management
  • Supplier Management

Operation

  • Benefits Realisation
  • Post Implementation Review
  • Interim Management
  • Operational Review

 

Industry Sectors:

  • Banking
  • Business services
  • Central government
  • Chemicals, oil & gas
  • Consumer products
  • Information technology hardware, software & services
  • Insurance
  • Leisure, entertainment & hotels
  • Life assurance
  • Local government
  • National Health Service
  • Non-profit making bodies
  • Other manufacturing
  • Other public bodies
  • Pharmaceuticals & biotech
  • Real estate
  • Retail
  • Telecommunication services
  • Transportation
  • Utilities (electricity, gas & water)