Deloitte Jobs – Senior Manager

About the job

Your opportunity

We’re passionate about the Future of Work and HR. Are you?

People are at the core of everything we do and there has never been a more exciting time to be a HR professional. We recognise Public Sector – large and small – as an industry going through significant change, and where capability, behaviour, engagement, trust and motivation play a critical role in delivery success. We help our clients to take HR into the future, building exceptional Employee Experiences, and more.

Join the world’s leading HR and People Transformation business and help create the Future of Work. You’ll develop trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders. As part of a practice that brings research and analytics expertise together with deep industry knowledge, you’ll develop change programmes that are not only innovative, but deliver the most positive impact for all.

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Human Capital

Join the world’s leading HR and people transformation business and help create the Future of Work for Public Sector. You’ll develop trusted relationships with senior business stakeholders.

As part of a practice that brings research and analytics expertise together with deep industry knowledge, you’ll develop change programmes that are not only innovative, but deliver the most positive impact for all.

Are you looking to return to the workplace after an extended career break?

For this role we can offer coaching and support designed for returners to refresh your knowledge and skills, and help your transition back into the workplace after a career break of 2 years or more. If this is relevant for you, just let your recruiter know when you make your application.

Your role

As a Senior Manager in the team you will work closely with the Directors and Partners to play a key role in making a difference by really influencing and shaping the strategic development of the team. You will also have the commercial is an equal opportunities employer. 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.

As a Senior Manager, you will be responsible for:

• Leading HR Consulting projects to drive global HR transformation. The role will focus on transforming the HR functions of some of the world’s largest Public Sector organisations. Elements include the transformation or creation of the HR vision and strategy, HR Operations, HR technology and automation, Employee Experience and customer centricity, transformation, and delivery of the overall HR Service Delivery Model in line with business and HR strategic requirements
• Leading several multi-disciplinary work streams of Consultants, Senior Consultants and Managers to deliver against client objectives
• Providing insight, innovation and thought leadership to clients on the latest thinking across HR including Employee experience, HR Service delivery, HR technology and application, how to structure a HR function and drive value through HR Shared Services, Centres of Expertise and HR Business Partners.
• Specialising in thought leadership within Talent Acquisition, spanning the recruitment and onboarding lifecycle, to advise clients on how to improve the candidate, hiring managers and recruiter experience. You will also be responsible for designing Talent Acquisition Operating Models and advising on Talent Acquisition Technology ecosystems.
• Planning, scoping and shaping the HR elements of major projects and programmes
• Building out Talent Acquisition capability in the local team whilst not compromising performance
• Establishing good working relationships cross Consulting competencies and other Deloitte ‘service lines
• Having a broader perspective of potential issues encountered when managing diverse teams and the strategies to overcome them, having a clear understanding of the firm’s commitment to creating a more inclusive culture
• Developing the market in the Talent Acquisition space, through relationship building with target clients, creating leads, and going after opportunities.
• Challenging clients to think commercially from a holistic organisational perspective and not solely from a HR viewpoint
• Playing a key role in pre-sales and bid development
• Reporting on client project risks and opportunities
• Actively contribute to the growth of the business by identifying and delivering sales opportunities
• Offering a strong and compelling point of view around HR related matters and issues, such that it builds the credibility of the UK business

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.

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: Our workplace of the future has been redefined. You’ll work from our new London office that has achieved leading green certification for being both an exemplar green building and one designed to enhance the wellbeing of its people! You’ll also have the chance to work with clients throughout Europe and beyond.

Work pattern: This is a permanent role. This role is to be worked on a full time basis with a willingness to travel. However, our team members work a variety of agile working patterns.

Your professional experience

• Specialist understanding of the strategic and operational drivers of the Talent Acquisition function and the value it brings to any organisation
• Experience of managing change or transformation within an HR or business environment, either in another consulting firm or in-house
• Worked within or for Financial Services, including Banking, Capital markets or Insurance
• Track record in managing the successful delivery of large, complex programmes / engagements on time and within budget
• Expertise of managing or leading across one or more of the following areas: HR operations, HR transformation programmes, enabling HR technologies, shared services, HR organisation design or a specialist HR area (e.g. learning, recruitment, benefits, reward, performance, talent, recruitment)
• Worked within a Talent Acquisition function, or have previous consulting experience running Talent Acquisition transformation projects
• Awareness of HR and related market trends and a passion and appetite to explore further and bring new thinking into everyday
• New thinking into the practice
• Possess excellent facilitation, communication and data analysis skills and have a natural ability to influence others
• Have an ability to manage senior stakeholders effectively and manage complex and diverse client scenarios, focusing on high quality and delivery through others even in high pressured, time critical situations
• Be acutely aware of risk management and managing risks associated with people, process, systems, change and commercials is an equal opportunities employer

Your service line: Consulting

Our people and the way we work are the two things that set us apart in the consulting universe. For us, collaboration is fundamental to success, along with an unrivalled depth and breadth of expertise. We work closely with our clients and each other, at every stage of every project, solving our clients’ trickiest problems with a mix of knowledge, creativity and intellectual rigour. A hugely diverse range of clients rely on us to deliver the kind of change that adds genuine, lasting value to their business.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

About Deloitte

Our Purpose & Strategy

To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society – defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it’s about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.

What do we do?

Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.

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