Vice President, Global HR Solutions Consultant (Global – Location Agnostic)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group; London; On-site; USD 135,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Vice President, Global HR Solutions Consultant to join their innovative team. This role offers the chance to lead internal consulting engagements, drive HR change, and work with diverse clients across the globe. As part of a dynamic organization, you will leverage your HR expertise to provide strategic insights and foster a culture of collaboration and inclusivity. The position promises a rewarding career path with opportunities for professional growth and development, all while making a significant impact in the financial services sector. If you are ready to take your career to the next level, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellness benefits

Retirement plans

Educational assistance

Paid maternity and parental leave

Paid vacation and sick days

Qualifications

• Experience in multiple HR practice areas and strong communication skills are essential.
• Proven ability to work effectively in a global environment and manage stakeholder needs.

Responsibilities

• Lead internal consulting engagements and manage HR Solutions Consulting team members.
• Advise clients on best practices and deliver project support.

Skills

Communication Skills

Collaboration

Negotiation

Conflict Management

HR Analytics

Coaching

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or related field

Experience in management consulting

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Power BI

Copilot

Job description

Vice President, Global HR Solutions Consultant (Global – Location Agnostic)

Join to apply for the Vice President, Global HR Solutions Consultant (Global – Location Agnostic) role at MUFG.

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count?

Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 120,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world.

With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career.

Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded.

All GHR roles must comply with the location strategy of that region.

Global Human Resources (HR) Solutions Overview

Global HR Solutions is a new, trailblazing organisation within Global HR (GHR) that performs as an internal consulting function. We are a flexible and agile team that delivers upon a portfolio of prioritised projects to enable the GHR operating model, provide strategic project and cyclical process support, and bring HR analytics and data-driven insights to our clients within HR and the business.

Our mission is to:

• Deliver best-in-class support to HR change projects and cyclical process backed by human capital intelligence and insights to enable business results.
• Provide data-driven and solutions-oriented services to clients to enable them to make well-informed decisions and enhance their talent and business outcomes.
• Harness the collective knowledge and capability of a dynamic and skilled Global HR Solutions workforce to optimise GHR service delivery and results.
• Provide HR colleagues with extensive client exposure within HR and the business, the opportunity to make meaningful contributions to strategic initiatives, and offer stimulating growth experiences and diverse career paths.

Are you:

• Eager to be at the forefront of HR innovation?
• Keen to make an impact and drive meaningful change in organisations?
• Energised by collaborating with diverse clients and teammates across disciplines and geographies to solve exciting problems and generate new opportunities?
• Ready to expand your breadth and depth of HR skills and hone new expertise?
• Looking to join a dynamic and growing global team?

If you answered yes to these questions, Global HR Solutions could be a great next step in your career journey!

Note: Given the international and collaborative nature of MUFG, Global HR Solutions works on global and regional engagements, and flexibility is required to allow for meetings and connectivity as needed with clients and colleagues across the Americas, APAC, and EMEA time zones. Employee wellbeing is a critical element of GHR’s culture. Measures, work practices, and technology will be in place to enable team member wellbeing, connectivity, and productivity.

NUMBER OF DIRECT REPORTS

The HR Solutions Consultant Vice President role will have multiple Assistant Vice President and Analyst-level direct reports. The number of direct reports is to be confirmed. Direct reports are anticipated to reside within the same region as the successful candidate, with the exception of MUFG Global Services (MUFG’s global capability centre in Bangalore) direct reports, who may reside in a different region than the HR Solutions Consultant Vice President.

MAIN PURPOSE OF THE ROLE

Upon hire, the successful candidate will initially work closely with the Head of Global HR Solutions, Global HR Solutions Directors, and the Project Canyon Team (GHR’s Operating Model Transformation Team) on final preparations for the organisation in advance of the April 2025 launch (e.g., test and finalise core processes and tools, prepare for team member onboarding and initial slate of projects, etc.).

Following the launch of Global HR Solutions, the role will: (1) execute internal consulting engagements that provide project and cyclical process support, (2) serve as a people manager for HR Solutions Consulting team members, (3) contribute to communities of practice to enable team member capability development and enhanced client results.

Key Responsibilities

The successful candidate will have the following key responsibilities:

• Serve as an internal consultant, working with clients in GHR and the business to lead and deliver engagements. Engagements include: (1) strategic projects (e.g., transformation initiatives, new services/products, process improvement, regulatory programmes) and (2) cyclical process support (e.g., year-end processes, talent review).
• Advise clients on internal and external leading practices and lessons learned to enable results and optimise outcomes.
• Plan, design, develop, and execute engagement activities and deliverables, including:
• Provide day-to-day management and guidance across workstreams to support successful engagement delivery.
• Provide junior team members with day-to-day guidance, oversight, and quality assurance for engagement activities and deliverables.
• Lead engagement workstreams and activities; produce deliverables.
• Facilitate interviews, focus groups/listening sessions, and working sessions with clients and stakeholders.
• Oversee qualitative and quantitative data analysis and findings and recommendations development.
• Help identify and address engagement risks and issues.
• Help manage client relationships and HR Solutions resources.
• Execute knowledge and capability transfer to clients (as needed).
• Leverage HR skillset breadth and depth (e.g., knowledge and experience in HR practice areas, policies, processes, procedures, compliance, laws, regulations, ethics) to successfully deliver engagements.
• Establish trust and credibility with clients; build and maintain long-term working relationships across GHR and the business.
• Serve as a people manager for HR Consulting direct reports, including responsibility for regular feedback/coaching sessions, objective setting and mid- and year-end performance activities, and ongoing development and career growth support.
• Contribute to HR Solutions communities of practice (e.g., change management & communications, process excellence, organisational design & effectiveness, experience & design thinking) to enable ongoing team member capability development and enhanced client results.
• Practise the apprenticeship model across project engagements, enabling HR Solutions team members to learn side-by-side from you and fellow team members to accelerate capability development and grow bench strength.
• Champion HR Solutions with HR colleagues and the business.
• Support continuous improvement and upskilling for the organisation; advocate for new ways of working.
• Help foster and sustain a diverse, inclusive, energising, and supportive HR Solutions culture, with a focus on results, efficient and collaborative work practices, and wellbeing.

Work Experience

Essential:

• A history of delivering results in a high-pressured, fast-paced, heavily matrixed environment.
• Experience across multiple HR practice areas (e.g., Talent, Learning, Culture, Performance, Reward, HR Business Partnering, HR Analytics, HR Shared Services, etc.).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present effectively to leadership.
• Collaboration and influencing skills, with proven ability to address and manage stakeholder needs while prioritising competing objectives, driving progress, and achieving results.
• Negotiation and conflict management.
• Proven ability to work effectively across cultures and in a global environment.
• Line management experience, especially with coaching and developing a direct report, and helping them reach their career goals.
• Employment with a top management consulting firm or equivalent consultancy-based experience, ideally in a practice area related to human capital management is beneficial, but not required.

Skills And Experience

Functional / Technical Competencies:

Essential Demonstrable Strengths

• Understanding of the HR function and HR service delivery.
• Able to analyse data, formulate findings, and provide data-based recommendations.
• Proficiency in the full range of Microsoft Office applications (PowerPoint, Excel, Word, Outlook, and Teams).
• Coaching experience.
• Proficiency in productivity enabling and analytics tools (e.g., Copilot, Power BI, etc.) is beneficial, but not required.

The compensation and benefits information in this posting applies to candidates hired in the United States. Candidates hired outside of the United States will be eligible for compensation and benefits consistent with the local market.

The typical base pay range for this role is between $135,000 - $170,000 depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and location. This role may also be eligible for certain discretionary performance-based bonus and/or incentive compensation. Additionally, our Total Rewards program provides colleagues with a competitive benefits package (in accordance with the eligibility requirements and respective terms of each) that includes comprehensive health and wellness benefits, retirement plans, educational assistance and training programs, income replacement for qualified employees with disabilities, paid maternity and parental bonding leave, paid vacation, sick days, and holidays. For more information on our Total Rewards package, please click the link below.

MUFG Benefits Summary

We are open to considering flexible working requests in line with organisational requirements.

MUFG is committed to embracing diversity and building an inclusive culture where all employees are valued, respected and their opinions count. We support the principles of equality, diversity and inclusion in recruitment and employment, and oppose all forms of discrimination on the grounds of age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy and maternity, race, gender reassignment, religion or belief and marriage or civil partnership.

We make our recruitment decisions in a non-discriminatory manner in accordance with our commitment to identifying the right skills for the right role and our obligations under the law.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Human Resources
• Industries: Financial Services and Banking