People Consulting - Organizational Design- Manager-Consulting

In People Consulting, we deliver long-term value to our clients, people and EY by putting Humans@Center of the Transformation agenda, transforming businesses through the power of people and helping our clients to reimagine their future workforce.

With a growing addressable market of $115b+, and a market leading brand, People Consulting has significant opportunity to help our clients address complex issues relating to their people agendas.

The Opportunity

Join our dynamic Business Performance team as an Organization and Workforce Manager, where you will play a pivotal role in optimizing workforce, talent, and mobility strategies. You will be instrumental in future-proofing our operations through the design, development, and influence on operating models and continuous change. As a trusted advisor, you will develop and implement workforce strategies that align with business and functional strategy to meet business objectives. Your expertise will be crucial in understanding workforce requirements to design organizations at the operating model and organization design level to achieve strategic intent.

Key Responsibilities

Our approach to organizational design helps guide our clients from assessment through to implementation. You’ll lead large-scale organizational design projects and advise stakeholders while building relationships with colleagues and clients.  You’ll also work collaboratively to deliver innovative and insightful solutions for a range of challenges, from how to best structure teams to deliver on the organization’s strategy to how the organization’s structure can allow for more agile ways of working.

Skills and Attributes for success

Some key capabilities you should be prepared to bring to client facing and internal initiative teams include:

• You’ll be expected to lead project workstreams, from planning through implementation – including managing project resources and budgets effectively, and identify and effectively manage and mitigate any risks and issues
• Understanding of using organizational design, strategic workforce planning and change management as integral components of transformational initiatives focused on accelerating business performance. Understanding of the opportunities and risks associated with acquisitions, divestures, mergers and the organizational design implications
• Demonstrate technical competence in our key capabilities and take a practical/business driven approach to solving complex client challenges
• Contribute to generate profitable revenue by identifying additional engagement opportunities and building lasting relationships with clients
• Influence and persuade clients and stakeholders to gain support for any major change initiatives and/or decisions
• Encourage and facilitate collaboration amongst team members, and promote an inclusive working environment
• Understanding of human resources opportunities, challenges and issues in at least one of the sectors we serve (e.g., Oil & Gas, Health, Telecommunications, Power & Utilities, Insurance, Media & Entertainment)
• Contribute to business development and client pursuit activities by preparing proposals and delivering presentations for potential clients
• Passionate about advancing the People Consulting practice by leading the development of thought leadership and EY approaches, tools and methodologies in organization design
• Coach and develop teams and colleagues, and act as a visible role model for our people

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Relevant professional service experience, with a global management consultancy firm, or niche consultancy in which you gained exposure to a large-scale project(s)
• Around 6-9 years of prior experience in Operating Model Development, Organizational Structure and Design, Strategic Workforce Planning, Capability Mapping, Organizational Assessment, and Organizational Governance , with success in current job applying one or more of these capabilities
• Experience of leading org. design engagements in one or more of the following functional domains – supply chain, IT, finance, customer, sales & marketing. Should have worked in large multi-disciplinary teams as part of functional and enterprise-wide transformation engagements  
• Proven track record in managing and analyzing large datasets and using analytics in project execution. Deep expertise in working with and engaging clients in discussions around the use of digital assets in the delivery of org. design projects
• Bachelor's degree required in a related field of business, human resources, psychology
• Willingness to travel as needed, and comfortable working in a hybrid environment with an average of three (3) days per week at a client site or within an EY office.

If you’re looking for a role that will challenge you, give you opportunities to grow and encourage you to own your career, this role is for you.

What we look for

We’re interested in professionals who enjoy promoting the people agenda in organizations and change initiatives, bringing people issues and challenges to the forefront with the knowledge how these are addressed will be a key success factor in whatever an organization is trying to accomplish.  You’ll need the confidence to keep the people agenda front and center, as well as the interpersonal skills and communications savvy to do this in a way that integrates well with executive priorities and objectives.