Professional Development Manager - JHB at Hatch

Job Summary

You will build trust-based relationships with your local leadership team and consultant cohorts to serve the needs of our clients and support consultants’ professional aspirations. This role is key to sustain and support growth in the region.

Additional detail on the key role responsibilities is listed below:

Staffing

• End to end management and coordination for resourcing and staffing plans for analysts, consultants and engagement managers
• Develop deep relationships with your leadership team to understand client needs, and support them in identifying and setting up balanced/allocating client service teams based on consultants’ skills and capabilities
• Develop an understanding of consultants’ skills, capabilities, professional aspirations, engagement feedback and personal situations and challenges
• Maintain a staffing plan and identify potential staffing gaps early and work with the regional leaders to develop a plan to fill the gap
• Update the work in view and work in hand tools to ensure we have visibility on project and staffing needs

Career management

• Oversee each consultant’s career development as they progress in their role
• Manage the people review process for AEM consultants
• Oversee the formal mentorship and development leader process for our regional consultants
• Create and action development plans for our regional consultants
• Understand the developmental needs for our consulting cohorts (analysts, consultants and engagement managers) while balancing their professional and personal need and challenges
• Ensure we develop our people to keep pace with the needs of the business

Oversee Training Programs

• Coordinate regional training courses (e.g. Advisory Foundations, Managing High Performing Engagements) and maintain training records
• Collect and update staff skillsets (functional e.g. transaction due diligence, sourcing, MOS etc.) and project experience records (e.g. Gold producer AISC cost reduction)

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent post-secondary degree in Engineering, Business Administration or related field
• Minimum three to four years of experience in a professional services firm is preferred (international environment preferred)
• Demonstrated interest and experience in professional development people and issues
• Excellent interpersonal, coaching and team skills; ability to build trust -based relationships with consultants, colleagues (locally and international)
• Influencing skills and interfacing with senior members of the business
• Ability to adapt well to fast-paced environments with high growth, ambiguity, and changing priorities
• Ability to diagnose problems, identify and drive appropriate solutions independently
• Ability to show effective use of analytics and data
• Ability to embrace the larger, broader picture, and use good judgment while also focusing on details and critical thinking
• Demonstrated business acumen and leadership ability
• Possesses client-service mindset
• Resilient and able to thrive in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment with a high level of energy and sense of humour