Deloitte, Director, HR Consulting, Human Capital, UK
Role description
With over 500 professionals in the UK, our Human Capital practice is renowned for providing distinctive depth and breadth of organisation transformation services to clients undertaking complex major programmes. Our practice combines project and programme management capabilities with change management, organisational design and leadership expertise, helping our clients identify, manage and solve the people issues that cause businesses to perform below their potential.
The practice is made up of four competencies: HR Transformation, Organisation Transformation and Talent, Programme Leadership and Actuarial and Pension Services. Between them we deliver a wide range of capabilities ? from maximising Human Resource value, capability and strategy execution through cultural change to organisation design and workforce planning.
Deloitte is a recognised global leader in HR Transformation and Technology with over 300 blue-chip credentials. We have worked on redesigning HR during significant mergers and acquisitions and have proven capability in identifying areas for outsourcing and supporting clients through the transition to an outsourced partner.
Our HR Transformation proposition aims to drive greater shareholder value by increasing the capability of the Human Resource function to impact business performance. Deloitte addresses HR value and capability by transforming client HR functions structurally, creating and enabling more strategic roles, and improving efficiency and effectiveness through improved tools and operations.
As a Director in the team you will be working closely with the Partners and play a key part in making a difference by really influencing and shaping the strategic development of the team. You will also have the commercial experience necessary to build and develop significant new business opportunities for the Firm ? focused on the development of senior client relationships within Human Capital. In doing so, you will build a level of eminence in the marketplace that gives you the platform to support the Firm’s growth ambitions over the long-term ? as well as building high-performance teams around you to support these growth plans.
To be successful in this role, you will be a subject matter expert leading multiple, high-profile projects and bids, whilst developing innovative thought leadership. You will have the opportunity to learn from the best in the business and also help recruit the best people, coach and support them whilst driving activity such as proposition development and marketing.
Responsibilities
You will have responsibility for:
- Delivering programmes
- Leading client relationships and managing key stakeholders
- Guiding, managing and leading team members
- Actively managing key risks and issues
- Developing and growing the practice
- Leading and shaping the team
- Having a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them and a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
Requirements
To qualify for the role you must have:
- Relevant experience and relationships within Human Capital
- Track record in managing the successful delivery of large, complex programmes / engagements on time and within budget
- Proven ability to structure and develop and deliver HR transformation solutions
- Track record in account development, business and relationship development and the ability to identify and act upon opportunities to build and develop Deloitte's HR Transformation practice footprint
- Proven ability to understand, mitigate and manage risk
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to articulate complex ideas to all levels of an organisation, and effectively lead and manage all key stakeholders
- Excellent programme management discipline. This will involve working with clients to improve their organisation design, change and leadership culture
- Ability to lead and direct large and cross functional teams
- Excellent people management and development skills with a strong focus onteam development
- A proven track record of leading and delivering complex projects, including design and implementation of Human Resources Transformations
- 100% flexibility on travel requirements
We are Consulting
Three core competency areas make up our Consulting service line:
• Technology
• Strategy & Operations
• Human Capital
We exist to solve complex problems
Our consultants are renowned for their straightforward approach to solving some of the world’s largest and most complex business challenges. With a team of over 3,000, each of us is energised by the challenge a seemingly inscrutable problem presents. Our distinctiveness lies in our refusal to accept a problem at face value - we draw on the depth of our shared insight to ask the right questions, and it’s these questions that uncover answers - answers with impact.
We are committed to collaboration
Our role is to unlock potential for growth and innovation. We believe this requires real collaboration ? with our own networks and with our clients. It’s why we commit to truly getting under the skin of our client’s needs, developing a full appreciation for their environment, goals and ambitions. We’re also unafraid to challenge. In so doing, we build long-term and trusted affinities.
We create long-term, sustainable impact
We often work hand-in-hand with our clients to help find the right solution and to help apply that solution. Our aim is to leave behind ambassadors who are equipped to continue the transformation we began. For us, it’s about embedding sustainable change, allowing the impact of our insight to be felt for a long time to come.
We offer a number of different career pathways
We offer three different career pathways at Deloitte, meaning that there are three different routes by which people can progress in Consulting. We provide variety regarding the career options available to you, assisting you to take career steps that fit your skills, talents and aspirations, and providing an environment where those choices can be discussed in meaningful and constructive career conversations.
The Consulting Career Paths are:
Consulting pathway ? pathway based around developing a broad consulting skillset alongside building expertise in a specific domain
Consulting Solutions pathway ? pathway where there is greater focus on building skills and deep expertise in a specific domain. Practitioners have a narrow focus, determined by their SME and type of contribution made
Consulting Services pathway ? pathway for people whose career is built around the delivery of managed services to clients (either internal or external)
About Deloitte
Deloitte offers integrated services that include Audit and Risk Advisory, Tax, Consulting and Financial Advisory. Our approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with global business and industry expertise to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.
We deliver outstanding impact on the reputation and success of our clients, in the UK and globally. In pursuing this we contribute to a sustainable and prosperous society, and are firm believers in the positive impact business can and should have on the world it operates within.
At Deloitte we foster a collaborative culture where talented individuals can produce their best work. We value innovative thinking, diverse insights and a genuinely distinctive level of customer service through our expertise and professionalism.
We value difference, with respect at the heart of our inclusive culture. We are open to discussing with candidates the different ways in which we are able to support agile working arrangements. We recognise that our people are juggling demanding careers with commitments and interests outside of work.
Hear from some of our people already working at Deloitte in agile ways.
We are proud to have received a special award for Best Innovation for our WorkAgility Time Out programme in the 2015 Top Employers for Working Families awards.