Managing Consultant - London, United Kingdom - Schroders

Schroders

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London, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

About Schroders

We're a global investment manager.

We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 6,500 people on six continents. And we've been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn't change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We're close to our clients, in the heart of the UK's financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

Schroders' Business Transformation Solutions (BTS) team is Schroders' internal management consultancy function.

The function provides Strategic Solutions to the entire Schroders Group, across a range of service lines such as strategy and business model design, target operating models, shaping & support for large-scale complex transformation, business architecture and people transformation.

What you'll do

As a Management Consultant in the BTS Team:

Type of work:
As a management consultant you will be involved in a range of consultancy assignments and other activities which may include:

Strategy:

Using strategy formation approaches to facilitate the definition of business strategies through working with relevant business stakeholders
Development of vision statements and business models for discrete business areas
Research initiated to address gaps in knowledge relating to a specific business issue.

Operating Models:

The creation of Target Operating Models (TOMs) for discrete business domains and functions, using standard Schroders methodology, which leverages our business architecture and operational excellence tool kits
Business analysis to support capability design, process analysis and organisational transformation.

Change Management:

Creation of business cases for initiatives under consideration, with the aim of concluding on the potential value add / costbenefit analysis of embarking on that initiative. (Encompasses financial analysis, definition of business drivers, assessment of risks etc.)
Shape, influence and play a leading role in complex strategic initiatives
Shape, design oversight and advisory to the Steering Committee for projects / programmes of work with the aim of ensuring successful delivery and maintenance of strategic programme objectives
Partnering with business and programme teams to clarify priorities, stakeholder management, design governance, and TOM implementation activities.
Advisory on the Schroders' Change portfolio, and creation of highlevel plans / roadmaps to implement change.

Business Architecture:

Leveraging Schroders business architecture to strategically align, accelerate and derisk change to our operating model
Developing our business architecture tools and methodologies, to ensure it continues to deliver value, mature and become further embedding across the change lifecycle.

Responsibilities of the role:
As a Managing Consultant in the Business Transformation Solutions team you will be expected to:

Lead the delivery of consulting assignments and/or assist with very large / complex assignments.
Contribute to business development and prioritisation of the pipeline of potential change initiatives.
Build positive relationships with GMC / GMC1 level stakeholders within the organisation.
Operate as a role model for the rest of the Business Consultancy team through leading by example.
Influence the agenda for the team through leading service proposition design, thought leadership and the injection of innovative ideas and ways of thinking.
Challenge conventional wisdom and freely expressing their own opinion.
Potentially undertake line management for other members of the Business Consultancy team.

As a member of the People Transformation Practice your role will primarily focus on the people and organisation dimensions of the BTS remit outlined above

This will specifically include:

Organisational Design:

Current and future state activity analysis and design
Current people risk assessment to assess future impacts of change
Organisational design activities within agree frameworks.

Business Case Development

Current versus proposed future state costs
Onetime employee costs (retention and redundancy)
Production of Exec level business case for proposed people transformation.

Communication

Development of communication strategy and approach
Development of communications plan and materials slide packs, speaker notes, Q&As, logistics, runbooks for multiple people communication events for each programme.

Change Support

Recommending appropriate support for current employees with change and other coaching and development materials
Partnership with HR and Schroders professional career transition support service providers.

Support for People Transition