HR Transformation Consultant

Accenture; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 125,000; Full time

Job summary

A global consulting firm is seeking an HR Transformation Consultant to deliver talent management solutions and enhance employee experiences. The ideal candidate has a proven track record in HR strategy and innovation, strong consulting skills, and is eager to work closely with clients to implement transformative HR practices. This role offers a competitive salary and extensive benefits, including 30 days vacation and private medical insurance.

Benefits

30 days vacation

Private medical insurance

Extra days for charitable work

Qualifications

• Proven track record in talent management strategy.
• Understanding of AI and Robotics in HR processes.
• Ability to influence and build trusted relationships.

Responsibilities

• Deliver HR consulting projects for talent management solutions.
• Challenge clients on how HR supports future workforce.
• Support growth of HR consulting through innovation.

Skills

Talent management strategy delivery

Innovation and technology trends

Strong consulting skills

Employee experience optimization

Stakeholder management

Job description

Job Role: HR Transformation Consultant

Location: London, Manchester & Edinburgh

Career Level: Management Consultant (CL9)

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture : We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

In a team

HR Transformation Consulting Services is a cross-industry capability, which is focused on developing and delivering market leading, innovative HR solutions to our clients. This practice is part of our UKI Talent and Organisation / Human Potential practice which leads on combining our HR Transformation and HR Technology consulting with programme leadership capabilities, change management, and leadership expertise, helping our clients to shape and deliver world‑class colleague experience, HR services underpinned by digital enablement to unlock their human potential.

Accenture’s HR Transformation capability is a recognised market leader in HR Consulting. We have worked with our clients to create leading edge HR organisations, processes and practices that deliver measurable improvements in the performance of people and the organisation. Our HR professionals provide knowledge and experience that help today's companies blueprint their HR strategy, operating model and support the planning, design, and deployment activities required to achieve broad HR transformational changes across the enterprise. Accenture provides strong methods, tools, and accelerators founded in best in class thought leadership to help our client’s structure, launch, and implement these large‑scale transformation programmes which drives productivity, effectiveness and improves workforce performance.

We are growing our practice with ambitions to further scale and are looking for enthusiastic professionals to expand our HR capabilities and share our passion for innovative HR. As a group of practitioners, we work very closely with the world’s largest organisations which gives us a strong understanding of the challenges they face and how our strong ties in the wider Accenture community can support them.

In this role you will

Deliver HR Consulting projects to define Talent Management solutions encompassing the key elements of the talent lifecycle including Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, Talent strategy and Talent Management programmes and processes along with the supporting operating model and technology enablers.

Challenge our clients to think differently in how HR can support the workforce of the future and agile enterprise.

Support the growth of the HR consulting practice through innovation, capability growth, thought leadership, and market eminence within the area of Talent Management.

Support in creating market relevant Talent Management points of views, blogs and offerings to create market eminence for Accenture’s HR consulting and overall T&O.

Delivering with consistency and excellence for our clients.

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We are looking for experience in the following skills

• Proven track record in delivering talent management strategy, programmes and / or processes.
• A passion for Innovation and Technology trends, understanding the Talent Management ecosystem and how leading‑edge technologies and data can drive organisation objectives while supporting the employee / colleague experience.
• Strong consulting acumen by demonstrating excellent communication, facilitation and data analysis skills to influence others.
• Understanding, and preferably experience in driving employee experience centric process optimisation efficiencies in talent management processes, leveraging latest thinking including through the use of Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence.
• Showing ability to build trusted relationships, and manage stakeholders, both internally and externally to your organisation with clear ability to influence others.

Set yourself apart

As a Consultant, we expect that you :

• Are forward thinking with a strong business acumen
• Prioritise continuous development and self‑guided learning, personally and your team.
• Have the drive to continuously share your knowledge with others.
• Are open to autonomously operate in a global network & fast‑paced growth model and comfortable to set your own personal growth plan.
• Are enthusiastic to extend and navigate networks in and outside of Accenture.

What’s in it for you

At Accenture in addition to a competitive basic salary, you will also have an extensive benefits package which includes 30 days’ vacation per year, private medical insurance and 3 extra days leave per year for charitable work of your choice! Flexibility and mobility are required to deliver this role as there will be requirements to spend time onsite with our clients and partners to enable delivery of the first‑class services we are known for.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent‑ and innovation‑led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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