Job Role: HR Operating Model Consultant

Location: London

Career Level: Management Consultant (CL9)
 

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As a team:

HR Transformation Consulting Services is a cross-industry capability, which is focused on developing and delivering market leading, innovative HR solutions to our clients. This practice is part of our UKI Talent and Organisation/Human Potential practice which leads on combining our HR Transformation and HR Technology consulting with programme leadership capabilities, change management, and leadership expertise, helping our clients to shape and deliver world-class colleague experience, HR services underpinned by digital enablement to unlock their human potential.

Accenture’s HR Transformation capability is a recognised market leader in HR Consulting. We have worked with our clients to create leading edge HR organizations, processes and practices that deliver measurable improvements in the performance of people and the organization. Our HR professionals provide knowledge and experience that help today's companies blueprint their HR strategy, operating model and support the planning, design, and deployment activities required to achieve broad HR transformational changes across the enterprise. Accenture provides strong methods, tools, and accelerators founded in best in class thought leadership to help our client’s structure, launch, and implement these large-scale transformation programs which drives productivity, effectiveness and improves workforce performance.

We are growing our practice with ambitions to further scale and are looking for enthusiastic professionals to expand our HR capabilities and share our passion for innovative HR.  As a group of practitioners, we work very closely with the world’s largest organisations which gives us a strong understanding of the challenges they face and how our strong ties in the wider Accenture community can support them.

In our team you will:

Learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways. Work with cutting-edge HR technologies and have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. If you’re looking for a challenging career, working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of HR experts, this could be the role for you. 

In this role you will:

• Deliver HR Consulting projects to define HR Transformation solutions encompassing HR operating model and organisation design, Business case development
• Challenge our clients to think differently in how HR can support the workforce of the future and agile enterprise, aligning with broader People Strategy and business priorities.
• Support the growth of the HR consulting practice through innovation, capability growth, thought leadership, and market eminence within the area of HR Transformation.
• Support in creating market-relevant HR Transformation points of views, blogs and offerings to create market eminence for Accenture’s HR consulting and overall T&O.
• Deliver with consistency and excellence for our clients, helping build the case for change and supporting HR initiatives with robust business case development.

We are looking for experience in the following skills:

• Proven track record in delivering HR transformation programmes and/or processes, including integration with People Strategy and Strategic Workforce Planning approaches.
• A passion for innovation and technology trends, understanding the HR Transformation ecosystem and how leading-edge technologies and data can drive organisational objectives while supporting the employee/colleague experience.
• Strong consulting acumen by demonstrating excellent communication, facilitation and data analysis skills to influence others.
• Understanding, and preferably experience in driving employee experience–centric process optimisation efficiencies in HR transformation, leveraging latest thinking including through the use of Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence.
• Experience or familiarity with the design of supporting HR Operating Models, enabling scalable and business-aligned HR delivery.
• Showing ability to build trusted relationships, and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally to your organisation with clear ability to influence others.
• Ability to support or develop robust HR Transformation-related business cases to secure investment and drive transformation.

Set yourself apart:

As a Consultant, we expect that you:

• Are forward thinking with a strong business acumen and the ability to see how HR Transformation links to wider workforce and business strategies.
• Prioritise continuous development and self-guided learning, personally and for your team.
• Have the drive to continuously share your knowledge with others and contribute to thought leadership and capability development.
• Are open to autonomously operate in a global network and fast-paced growth model, and are comfortable setting your own personal growth plan.
• Are enthusiastic to extend and navigate networks in and outside of Accenture.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first-class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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