PwC UK has signed a strategic deal with AI-powered enterprise work management platform Smartsheet in a move designed to help large organisations get a better grip on complex transformation programmes.
The collaboration, announced at the Smartsheet Summit in London, will focus on the UK public sector and financial services.
The collaboration is launching with a robust enterprise pipeline, including one of the UK’s largest transportation infrastructure bodies. PwC asserts that it will bring its deep sector expertise and advisory muscle to help clients deploy and extract maximum value from Smartsheet’s platform, which enables scalable project, programme, and process management.
“At Smartsheet, we empower enterprises to achieve more by transforming how work gets done,” said Eva Schoenleitner, Vice President, Worldwide Partnerships at Smartsheet.
The collaboration with PwC marks a significant milestone in delivering on that promise. By leveraging Smartsheet’s powerful capabilities, we enable PwC to help their clients build sophisticated project and portfolio management solutions that drive efficiency and clarity. Our collaboration will accelerate productivity and drive meaningful change for organisations navigating complex transformations.”
The combined proposition is tailored to help clients improve operational agility, foster better cross-team collaboration, and deliver transformation with the speed and clarity today’s business environment demands.
What It Means for CIOs and Tech Leaders at PwC Clients
For CIOs, programme leads, and tech buyer committees inside PwC client organisations, this partnership is more than a shiny new integration. It reflects a deeper transition in how organisational change is done and who’s expected to drive it.
Big transformation programmes used to be about frameworks and governance. In 2025, they’re just as much about tools that can be flexible enough to keep up, secure enough to meet enterprise standards, and intelligent enough to genuinely support real-time decision-making. This is Smartsheet’s USP here.
However, what makes this partnership particularly pertinent is the wrapper PwC puts around it. The firm already works with many clients who’ll be rolling out Smartsheet. That means fewer hurdles in getting the tech embedded, and more confidence that it will be used properly, as a genuine enabler of change rather than as yet another dashboard factory.
This can be viewed as an opportunity for IT leaders to bring clarity and consistency to transformation projects without necessarily reinventing the wheel. Smartsheet can centralise sprawling portfolios, break down comms silos, and surface the most relevant data without forcing teams into rigid processes that don’t fit their context.
For tech buyers juggling everything from governance and procurement cycles to ever-growing security demands, the fact that this is being driven in tandem with PwC should ease a few headaches. It’s fundamentally about buying into a plan that’s been pressure-tested for enterprise realities.
In essence, this is a viable chance to move faster without losing control. In a climate where delay can be more dangerous than risk, that’s not something to ignore.
“Organisations today really are under tremendous pressure to respond to fast-moving disruption, demonstrate agility in the way they solve problems and bring intelligence, not pretty pictures, to decision-makers,” said Michael Cooch, Partner, Global Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Lead for PwC.
“In our latest CEO Survey, nearly half of business leaders said their companies won’t be viable in a decade without fundamental transformation. Our work with Smartsheet brings a powerful and flexible set of tools directly into the hands of our clients, giving them the structure, visibility and decision-support that they’re desperate for to drive real transformation. It’s a great collaboration that can enable businesses to turn strategy into action—confidently and at scale.”
