HR Capability Consultant

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Are you a Human Resource (HR) transformation Consultant with Payroll transformation experience looking to move into a HR Capability Consultant role, in a rapidly growing unique consulting business in the public health sector?

NHS Shared Business Services is a unique partnership between Sopra Steria and the Department of Health. We provide crucial corporate back-office services to NHS organisations.

We are market leaders in corporate service delivery with around 40% of the NHS using one or more of our products. With unrivalled knowledge and experience, we provide high-quality, value-for-money finance, procurement, and employment services to the NHS, helping them overcome any challenges they face in the back office.

We work closely with NHS organisations all over the country to replace outdated, time-consuming, and error-prone processes, with affordable digital systems and more efficient ways of working, and in addition to our core services, we are designing and developing innovative digital technologies and piloting brand-new ways of working, which further improve efficiency and quality, and better support the NHS workforce to deliver world-class patient care.

We are passionate about using our expertise to save the NHS time and money and are more relevant today than ever before.

Our HR Consulting Team provides end to end transformation support to Human Resource Director’s and Chief People Officer’s in the NHS to optimize the value delivered by their Human Resource and Workforce services to improve their contribution to the overall performance of their organization.

As a HR Capability Consultant you will be part of complex and large-scale projects including Payroll, to deliver enhanced value to customers. Supporting with tailoring recommendations to suit client needs, facilitating decision making through collaborative approaches, and encouraging expertise in specific markets or Consulting area.
Sopra Steria and NHS SBS have won a “Great Place to Work” award two years running, as well as one of the best places to work for Women in the UK, and our focus is to support your wellbeing, which includes your work life balance, we are also committed to supporting you with whatever training you need to thrive in your role.

This role is hybrid role and your contractual location can be at any of our offices based in - London, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol. As with all Consulting roles, some client travel is expected.

What you’ll be doing:

In this role you will support customer relationships, expanding networks, fostering loyalty, and actively contributing to the growth of the Consulting business. You will be responsible and take ownership for specific work-streams (and their outcomes) as part of a consulting team or for the overall management of small projects and their deliverables. To identify and develop consulting opportunities and new projects.

We are a diverse team which creates solutions that work for our diverse society. We know this means some team members will not tick all the boxes. We focus on outcomes and the ability to get the results we’re looking for,over ticking every box.

Your core responsibilities will be:

• Manage the successful delivery of a work-stream or small consulting project in order to achieve revenue targets and high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Combine fresh thinking and insight to identify additional consulting opportunities and shape innovative business propositions for new and existing clients.
• Work with clients to capture and shape consulting opportunities, helping them re-imagine the future and stay ahead of the curve.
• Run and support bid opportunities for small-scale projects that demonstrate Sopra Steria’s distinctive and sustainable consulting business and secure additional revenue and/or new clients.
• Be an advocate of Sopra Steria Consulting through participation in industry forums, events and social media.
• Live the consulting-led culture by embracing innovative, highly disruptive technologies that support new ways of working in a digital world.
• Contribute to the wider Consulting Community through sharing personal knowledge and experience.

What you will bring:

• You will have Business Consulting experience within a HR transformation environment, ideally which will include Payroll.
• Experience of working with the Public Sector.
• Experience working on diverse consulting projects and deliver impactful result.
• A history of adapting to different industries, client cultures, and project scopes, showcasing versatility and flexibility.
• Demonstrates awareness of commercial opportunities.
• A strong ability to build and maintain client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and understanding their unique needs.

It would be great if you had:

• A professional consulting accreditation.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we’re looking for, please do apply, we’d love to hear from you!

Employment Type:Full-time Permanent
Location:Hybrid Variable – contracted to any one of these locations - London, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol.
Recruiter: Rach

Salary: Up to £50,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements.