People and Change Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)

Job Description & Summary

A career within People and Organisation services, will provide you with the opportunity to help our clients reset their talent strategies and deliver extraordinary business results through their people. We focus on evaluating and managing their unique challenges so our clients can maximise their return on the overall investment in human capital. You’ll gain a tremendous depth of expertise in all aspects of human capital, including creating sustainable value through people culture and change, designing compensation and retirement strategies, and improving human capital operations.

To really stand out and make us fit for the future in a constantly changing world, each and every one of us at PwC needs to be a purpose-led and values-driven leader at every level. To help us achieve this we have the PwC Professional; our global leadership development framework. It gives us a single set of expectations across our lines, geographies and career paths, and provides transparency on the skills we need as individuals to be successful and progress in our careers, now and in the future.

As a Senior Manager, you'll work as part of a team of problem solvers, helping to solve complex business issues from strategy to execution. PwC Professional skills and responsibilities for this management level include but are not limited to:

• Encourage everyone to have a voice and invite opinion from all, including quieter members of the team.
• Deal effectively with ambiguous and unstructured problems and situations.
• Initiate open and candid coaching conversations at all levels.
• Move easily between big picture thinking and managing relevant detail.
• Anticipate stakeholder needs, and develop and discuss potential solutions, even before the stakeholder realises they are required.
• Contribute technical knowledge in area of specialism.
• Contribute to an environment where people and technology thrive together to accomplish more than they could apart.
• Navigate the complexities of cross-border and/or diverse teams and engagements.
• Initiate and lead open conversations with teams, clients and stakeholders to build trust.
• Uphold the firm's code of ethics and business conduct.

JOB PURPOSE

To be a key driver in building the P&O business.  Responsibilities range from business development, solution creation, and operational management of sub-competency or projects, managing teams, thought leadership, development of an expert P&O team.

A.  JOB PROFILE

PRINCIPAL ACCOUNTABILITIES

Accountabilities:

• Sell and manage HR projects and solution.
• Manage revenue, gross profit, and long term sustainability.
• Build meaningful relationships within a network of clients and partners.
• Craft new HR solutions.
• Deeply understand HR consulting, HR market and HR trends.
• Be connected to the P&O global network of experts.
• Lead, build, coach and manage an HR consulting team to deliver projects in terms of quality, scope and cost.

Attributes:

• A passion for the HR discipline.
• Deeply inquisitive about the world of work and the success of organisations.
• A keen sense of accountability for managing an HR consulting business.
• Have a deep understanding of one HR discipline.
• Deep expertise in specific HR consulting disciplines and good generalist expertise across the HR value chain.
• An eye for detail and a sense for market opportunities.
• Ambition to manage a HR consulting business or part of it.
• Ability to articulate HR solutions across a broad range of areas.
• Building internal and external relationships and networks.
• Ability to build a team around them.
• Communicating with impact and empathy.
• Acquiring and applying commercial and technical expertise.
• Managing projects and economics.
• The ability to work independently.

B.  PERSON PROFILE

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

• Relevant undergraduate/Honours degree, Master degree preferable.
• Relevant Masters degree
• Expert and professional registrations and qualifications.

EXPERIENCE

• Substantive HR consulting experience (at least 10 years).
• Working with C-suites and senior management.
• Very strong business development in HR consulting.
• Growing and molding a HR professional services practice.
• Operational management of a HR consulting business.
• Leadership experience in a similar role.
• Ability to manage HR consulting teams.

KEY KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Knowledge and expertise in the following areas:

• Organisation Change and Culture
  • Organisation change & business transformation
  • Leadership and  programme governance alignment/engagement
  • Organisation alignment
  • Culture transformation and behavioural change
  • Psychometry
• Organisation Design and Effectiveness
  • Operating model development
  • Organisation diagnostic and design
  • Organisation transition strategy
• Talent and Performance Optimization
  • Talent and performance management strategies
  • Balance scorecard design and implementation
  • Competency frameworks
  • Employee value proposition
• HR Transformation
  • HR strategy
  • Alternative service delivery  models and sourcing
  • Payroll, time and labour effectiveness
• HR Technology
  • HR technology strategy, selection, optimization, implementation
  • Cloud-based HR systems
  • Systems training strategy and planning
  • Change management and communications
• HR Analytics
  • ROE / ROI
  • HR benchmarks
  • Succession  planning
  • Workforce planning
  • Predictive analytics
  • Contingent staffing strategy and diagnostics
• Capability Building
  • Leadership development
  • Training strategy, enterprise learning
  • Mobile learning
  • Performance support/coaching

Education (if blank, degree and/or field of study not specified)

Degrees/Field of Study required: