People Consulting - Strategic Workforce Planning - Manager BC
EY
- Southside Dublin
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Senior Manager
- Project/ Programme Delivery: leading, shaping and delivering People Consulting programmes of work. Operational responsibility and accountability for assignments and delivery teams. Senior contact and escalation point for the client leadership team.
- Generating profitable revenue: Selling major People Consulting programmes; acting as client relationship owner for designated accounts and growing these accounts; identifying opportunities and leading pursuits; building relationships with prospective future clients; developing and implementing innovative business development initiatives
- All Levels
- Developing and sustaining client relationships
- Working collaboratively with clients and developing a trusted advisor reputation
- Providing best-practice workforce planning advice and guidance to clients
- Shaping EY's workforce planning service offering
- Managing more junior resources
- Providing and facilitating development opportunities for individuals at all levels in the practice
- Inputting into People Consulting's strategy and annual plans
- Supporting recruitment
- Role model inclusive leadership to drive a leading people culture in line with EY values
- Workforce planning skills, including demand and supply analysis, workforce sizing and shaping, developing actionable insights from workforce data
- Understanding of other core People Consulting services, such as organisation design, operating model, change and talent management
- Be professional, quickly establishing personal credibility and demonstrating expertise
- Demonstrate ability to support the development and growth of business
- Demonstrate knowledge of the region in terms of sector presence, existing networks, or relationships
- Have strong personal impact and resilience, and be able to influence and persuade clients and stakeholders to gain support for major changes and key decisions
- Take 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 skilled in facilitating and encouraging collaboration amongst team members, and capable of motivating teams to maximise performance
- Have experience of full project lifecycle from concept through to implementation
- Structure and manage projects or programmes of work which meet client expectations and mitigate any risks or issues
- Strong focus on achieving project / programme goals and objectives
- Be adept at overcoming issues and barriers
- Be up to date with key technical and functional skills, and with industry, business and leadership skills and knowledge - share this expertise with others
- Experience of strategic workforce planning, either as a consultant or as part of an internal HR team
- 2+ years similiar experience
- Experience in building strategic workforce planning capability for organisations
- Proven track record of managing workforce related projects/ programmes through all phases of the project/ programme lifecycle
- Experience in a leadership role; managing teams and being accountable for delivery
- A proven track record of proactively managing stakeholders, including providing constructive challenge, influencing decisions, providing robust advice, delivering difficult messages, and managing performance issues, up to C suite level
- Demonstrated track record of building client relationships
- Ability to quickly grasp complex business problems and develop appropriate solutions
- Strong analytical capability primarily in the interpretation of data; comfortable working with and interpreting data and leading client discussions on same
- An appreciation of data, systems and technologies used to drive strategic workforce decision making
- A primary degree and any post graduate degrees and professional qualifications are desirable but not critical
- Experience of working on projects gained working within a professional services firm, global consultancy firm and/or large private and/or public sector organisations
- Senior Managers: track record of strong business development in a professional services firm