Senior Consultant - London, United Kingdom - EY

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London, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Description

Organisations are having to become much more adaptable to change as they face new workforce challenges as a result of globalisation, changing demographics, emerging technology, innovation and regulatory demands.

We believe the People Agenda is at the heart of successful change.

EY People Advisory Services (PAS) help organisations to put humans at the centre of their transformation agenda enabling them to align culture and leadership to their purpose, develop necessary skillsets and mindsets, and build adaptability through continuous change and learning.

We are a global network with more than 11,000 employees in more than 130 countries, offering deep industry knowledge and experience to more than 2,000 corporate clients worldwide.

Within the UK, we have over 330 consultants advising clients across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors on their most challenging workforce problems.

We are growing fast and looking for those, who share our values, believe in the importance of the people agenda and have experience in organisation and workforce transformation and transactions, change experience and learning, culture and leadership, digital HR, rewards and people mobility, to join us in PAS.

The opportunity

We're now recruiting for a Senior Consultant who can demonstrate real impact across the Talent agenda development for our clients.

We are looking for people who can build Talent service offerings, understand client needs, contribute to building Talent thought leadership, grow our internal capability and connect effectively across our global PAS team to maximise our global knowledge and experience in supporting clients to build and develop their talent pool.

Your key responsibilities
In this role, your responsibilities will include core consulting and programme delivery across the Talent spectrum - key focus areas will include:

Undertake talent transformation activities across the people lifecycle: attract, source, develop, reward and retain.
Have a knowledge of the components of the talent framework and understands how each component relates to each other
Leadership Development and use of a range of assessment tools
Structure and manage projects and programmes to meet and exceed client expectations;
Implement project management practices
Execute project management across the full lifecycle of programmes
Manage project delivery, budget, profitability and scope
Recognise and manage risks and issues
Represent your teams, workstreams and projects in relevant steering committees
Be able to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions.
Contribute to the development of a culture service, engagement offering and people strategies
Take a practical approach to solving issues and gaining client agreement

Successfully sell, design and deliver our talent development services across a broad range of industry sectors, with a focus on driving business performance

This includes:

Supporting clients with strategic change by developing and/or updating their talent strategy
Improving organisation effectiveness through by working with clients on key talent initiatives that deliver people and business value
Organisation wide learning and change behaviours
Employee engagement
Communication

Practice and People management:

Identifies and discusses opportunities to delegate work to less experienced team members
Provides learning opportunities for less experienced team members with agreement from Senior Managers/ Manager and reviews delegated work
Provides timely, authentic and constructive feedback to colleagues and seeks feedback in return
Assists with the integration, inclusion and wellbeing of team members
Up to date with key technical and functional skills, and with industry, business skills & knowledge and shares this expertise with others
Encourages development of team members though formal and informal coaching
Reinforces our values, through day to day behaviour and critique disrespectful behaviour

Skills and attributes for success

Be professional, build client trust and demonstrate expertise
Have strong personal impact and resilience, and be able to influence and persuade clients and stakeholders to gain support for major changes and key decisions
Be able to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions
Be skilled in facilitating and encouraging collaboration amongst team members, and is capable of motivating teams to maximise performance
Be effective in recognising and managing potential issues during client assignments

To qualify for the role, you must have

Experienced management consultant / HR professional with relevant experience of talent transformation programmes and business change projects is essential. This can be within industry or as a consultant.
Proven track record of delivering talent transformation or worked in a talent role