Manager, HR Transformation, Consulting

Manager, HR Transformation, Consulting – EY

EY Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

At EY we don’t do ‘cookie cutter’ Consultants, we encourage diversity in our teams. We want creative and ambitious individuals who share our values of sustainability and making a difference to join EY People Consulting as part of the HR Transformation team. EY People Consulting partners with organisations to put humans at the centre of their transformation agenda enabling them to build a better working world.

Our clients are facing new workforce challenges as a result of globalisation, hybrid working, changing demographics, emerging technology, innovation and regulatory demands. We believe the People agenda is at the heart of successful change and that HR will have a key role in shaping organisations to be fit for the future.

The world of work is changing, so is the role of a Manager at EY!

The HR Transformation team is growing. We focus on partnering with clients to shape and navigate their People agendas, building functions that are business‑focused, cost‑effective, and agile by reimagining how HR can meet the needs of their stakeholders. Key to delivering that is a strategic People function that can look beyond HR operations and drive value back to the business.

Our HR Reimagined advisory team offers a number of strategic advisory services that cover the breadth of HR strategy through to delivery of value‑added services through HR experience design. We are looking for new team members that can bring a fresh perspective on delivering HR strategy, with experience in designing HR functions for the future and leveraging technology to augment our client’s experience.

We are looking for dynamic individuals who can demonstrate real impact within businesses to help transform some of the world's most respected private and public sector organisations. You will be building upon your existing experience of working across multiple components of HR, which may include but is not limited to HR Operating and Service Delivery Model, Future of HR, HR Capabilities development and HR Strategy.

• Experience of leading HR Transformation work streams to support organisations in the development of future HR Operating models
• Management of HR organisation design – creating an HR Operating Model that deploys the right skills at the right time and is enabled by smart technologies to support the desired business outcomes
• Management of junior resources to deliver e2e process documentation / design and facilitating of process localisation and documentation build workshops
• Experience of HR and HR Service Delivery Transformation – focused on changing the way in which HR and GBS functions operate, increasing and innovating their capabilities
• Development of insights around HR Shared Services, GBS or Outsourcing strategy/value propositions and business cases for HR Transformation programmes
• Understanding of how to define HR capability build and/or career development through re‑skilling / training or job definition
• Preparing materials for designing and delivering immersive client workshops to help shape HR Operating Model and HR Service Delivery design, including end‑to‑end process mapping to standardise, optimise and transform HR functions
• Working as part of a project team(s), work streams and workforce optimisation interventions in a broad range of industry sectors
• Developing detailed implementation roadmaps, risk mitigation and governance plans and managing project reporting
• Ability to help clients solve complex business problems using analytical skills to provide supporting evidence and appropriate rationale

• Be curious, innovative and driven by a desire to help our clients achieve their goals
• Be professional, quickly establishing personal credibility and demonstrating expertise
• Be a people manager, supporting junior team members through client delivery to support their development
• Have strong personal impact and resilience
• Take a practical approach to solving issues and gaining client agreement
• Be able to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and…