HR Change Consultant

HR Change Consultant

London

Purpose:

You will be designing and implementing cost-effective people solutions that bring strategic value to the business. This may involve leading people programmes in their entirety or leading work streams of larger programmes. The programmes will cover the full range of HR activity, and will typically be cross CFU or significant in scale at a Business Unit level.

You will establish and maintain effective sponsor and stakeholder relationships for the purpose of delivering your programmes and will use change management practices that land and embed sustainable change in a personal, simple and brilliant way.

What you will be doing:

• leading on specific transformation programmes and people change management projects ensuring a consistent, sustainable, quality-based approach to the design and delivery of change initiatives that addresses business need
• build and maintain effective sponsor and stakeholder relationships, usually at B level or below, for the purpose of delivering your programmes.
• be recognised as a change practitioner and demonstrate a consultative focussed approach to scope, influence, define, customise and implement HR solutions that deliver optimal people and business performance in line with the People Plan and scorecard.
• use recognised programme management practices and tools to keep programmes on track, keep stakeholders informed and manage and mitigate risks to the delivery of the programme and/or delivery of its associated benefits.
• broker and contract the services of other HR teams to effectively deliver programme requirements, securing the right expertise and ensuring long term relationships are maintained.
• work collaboratively across the change team to identify overlaps and synergies within people initiatives and contribute to the creation of the holistic change impact plan.
• Programmes could cover the full range of HR activity - Organisational Effectiveness, Leadership, Learning and Performance, Reward, Workforce Management, ER, Wellbeing, Inclusion and Health & Safety
• Champion HR change methodology and best practice across the CFU HR community.

Skills and experience

• Knowledge and experience in HR and/or change management, covering a breadth of activities and best in class practices and policies ideally from an HR generalist or change management role.
• Experience in managing and delivering people change initiatives in areas such as organisation design, organisation effectiveness, people effectiveness.
• Ability to influence at Director level and below and to build key relationships with appropriate business partners.
• Ability to quickly establish credibility and respect and build strong working relationships.
• Demonstrable professionalism with ability to operate in a complex, fast paced matrixed business environment.
• Confident with data and insight to diagnose and solve problems
• Ability in making things happen - translate solutions into creation and delivery of practical and workable plans that delivers sustainable change
• Be a team player with the ability to motivate and work alongside others and share best practice
• Typically graduate level or corresponding experience