Manager, Consulting Londonderry

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People Consulting partners with and clients to drive and evolve their people agenda in a rapidly changing global work environment. Joining the People Consulting team in EY will provide you with the opportunity to work on some of the most interesting and complex transformation programmes in Ireland. Our team, in partnership with our clients, seek to ensure the long term sustainability and embedding of major organisational transformation programmes.

Our work is varied and challenging; from creating an organisation design that determines effective organisation solutions to embedding cultural and behavioural change across an organisation. We manage communications and stakeholders, plan and implement change journeys and offer an understanding of the HR structures, practices and policies required to support the organisation.

• Active member of the wider leadership team to define project scope and execute delivery with clients, the People Consulting team and wider stakeholders
• Take ownership for project management activities such as project status reports, risk assessments and reporting.
• Independently analysing complex problems and presenting solutions to clients and the wider team
• Building strong relationships, especially with peers from client organisations and across the EY network
• Contributing innovative ideas to expand our People Consulting service offerings to clients and positively impact client engagements
• Keeping up to date on relevant market trends, key functional and technical skills and proactively sharing this knowledge with others
• Support in managing client relationships. Support in developing reports, deliverables, and communication assets to ensure successful delivery of engagement.
• Contribute to go-to-market activities by supporting proposal development, supporting management and leadership in pitch preparation, and undertaking critical engagement management activities.
• Support leadership in securing new engagement activity by identifying and communicating additional engagement opportunities across existing client engagements.

• Organisation Design
• Communications and Stakeholder Management
• Change Management
• Strategic Workforce Planning
• HR Transformation and Digital HR

You will be a leader in a client facing team that has cross-sector experience, working with global household name clients on the most complex transformation programmes to deliver better business, environmental and people outcomes for long-lasting results. Now more than ever, clients want to understand how change affects their people.

As part of the team you will be skilled at helping clients take a ‘human centred’ approach to achieve successful transformation. Using the latest innovations, you will partner with clients on their biggest challenges to find people‑centric solutions that work for their organisation - from implementing culture, technology and people change, to communication strategies and leadership development.

• Be degree qualified and have relevant professional experience; applicants will preferably have prior consulting experience in a client facing role on large or complex transformation programmes
• Be experienced in using relevant tools, templates and methodologies
• 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.
• Be pragmatic - taking 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 focused on achieving project / programme goals and objectives
• Be adept at overcoming issues and barriers
• Be experienced of full project lifecycle from concept through to implementation
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