People Advisory (Human Capital) Consultant - Senior Manager

People Advisory Services (PAS) shapes and delivers the part of business strategy that depends on people. As a PAS professional, you will have the opportunity to work with global clients to understand and address some of their largest and most complex people-related challenges, and ultimately improve and drive valuable and sustainable business results. We focus on engagements that relate to performance, talent, systems, reward, mobility and analytics.

We believe that you should own and shape your career. But we’ll provide the support and opportunities to develop the skills, knowledge and experience to succeed. The strength of our global network, combined with local empowerment and a relentless focus on winning in specific markets, means you’ll interact and team with individuals from various geographies and sectors. So whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

Responsibilities, Qualifications, Certifications - Internal

People Advisory Services - Manager

Summary of role:

The People Advisory Services (PAS) team maximises the benefits and minimises the risk of sustainable change in leading organisations through a focus on four areas:

• HR Structure – offering an understanding of the HR and practices and policies to define sustainable people changes within an organisation
• Change architecture - creating a change architecture that defines an integrated change journey for an organisation
• Organisation design - creating an organisation design that determines effective organisation solutions to support the desired business outcomes
• Culture and behavioural change - embedding cultural and behavioural change across an organisation to ensure that benefits are maintained
• Leadership coaching - creating change leaders and talent managers who are skilled and willing to drive change at all levels in the organisation
• We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate real impact within business and help transform some of the world's most respected commercial and public sector organisations
• We can help you realise your potential. Our work environment is designed to help high-performing people thrive.

Technical skills requirements:

Breadth of minimum 10 years experiences in people and organisational change capabilities and large-scale transformation programmes, with a focus on sustainability.

Outstanding personal success in current job and beginning to demonstrate a specialism in one or more of our range of services:

• Human Resources
• Change architecture
• Organisation design
• Cultural and behavioural change
• Leadership coaching and Talent Mangement
• Relevant professional experience, working in Big 4, global management consultancy firm or Blue Chip company/public sector
• No requirement for sector specialisation but strong insight into one or more of the following is desirable: Government & Public Sector, Healthcare, Chemicals & Utilities, Technology, Communications, and Consumer Products.

Additional skills requirements:

• Be professional, quickly establishing personal credibility and demonstrating expertise.
• Have strong personal impact and resilience, and be able to influence clients and stakeholders to gain support for major changes and key decisions.
• Take a practical approach to solving issues and gaining client agreement
• 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 confident and effective in recognising and managing potential issues during client assignments
• Structure and manage projects or programmes of work which meet client expectations and mitigate any risks or issues
• Focus on achieving project / programme goals and objectives
• Be adept at overcoming issues and barriers
• Be up to date with key technical and functional skills, and with industry, business and leadership skills & knowledge - and share this expertise with others
• Have experience of full project lifecycle from concept through to implementation
• Have a primary degree (or equivalent), from a leading university preferred

Client responsibilities: 

• To successfully design and deliver performance improvement and operating model programmes in the sectors
• To solve business issues and problems
• To demonstrate an understanding of operational environments in businesses
•  To win and sustain client confidence
• To work confidently with credibility and influence at mid to senior levels
• To demonstrate an understanding of project and programme management leading practices
• Team coaching and leadership, in particular consultants and senior consultants
• To recognise new business opportunities and develop and sustain client relationships.

People responsibilities

• Team management, coaching and leadership