Senior Principal, Organizational Strategy and Architecture

Korn Ferry; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Principal Consultant to enhance organizational strategy and architecture. This role involves developing job architecture that promotes career mobility and integrates talent analytics with HR technology. The ideal candidate will have over a decade of consulting experience, focusing on job design and workforce analytics. You will collaborate with clients to deliver tailored solutions, ensuring their organizational effectiveness and success. Join a dynamic team where your expertise will significantly impact client outcomes and drive business growth in a collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in management consulting focusing on job architecture and organization design.
• Proven track record in developing job architecture solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop profitable business through effective client relationship building.
• Lead delivery of complex projects ensuring client satisfaction and effective project management.

Skills

Job architecture design

Client management

Workforce analytics

Change management

Financial literacy

Business acumen

Communication skills

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Power BI

Alteryx

Tableau

Job description

Senior Principal, Organizational Strategy and Architecture

Requisition ID: 21576

Country: United States of America

Location type: Remote

About Us

Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:

• Organizational Strategy
• Assessment and Succession
• Talent Acquisition
• Leadership Development
• Total Rewards

THE ROLE

Korn Ferry seeks to hire a Sr. Principal Consultant to join Organizational Strategy in North America. Our specific expertise need is job architecture and organizational design. We’re looking for people who understand how jobs and skills come together - how to build job architecture in a way that enables career mobility, talent analytics, skills taxonomy, and HR tech integration, as well as pay. We are looking for people who see jobs in the context of organization design and operating model - how to pull the levers of job design to make the organization work better.

Ideally you will have formal experience in job levelling, job architecture design, workforce analytics and/or organization design.

The Sr. Principal will work closely with colleagues to deliver complex, customized and multi work-stream solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. Principal level consultants lead client relationships and/or projects of considerable complexity, offer seasoned expertise, and translate their understanding of clients’ business challenges into business development opportunities. Individuals take the lead on some business development and also partner with other colleagues, especially on larger, multi-stream opportunities.

Korn Ferry differentiates itself in the market in our ability to offer truly integrated end to end talent solutions, therefore we work very closely with our colleagues in other solution areas as we partner with clients. In particular, Korn Ferry’s integrated transformation solutions in Workforce Transformation, Cost Optimization, and Revenue Growth are tightly connected to our Organizational Strategy teams.

Key Responsibilities And Accountabilities

• Develop profitable business through effective client relationship building, account management and collaborative working with colleagues across the KF enterprise. Manage and expand relationships, including beyond technical buyers to business leaders, to increase opportunities and further impact clients’ business success.
• Develop hypotheses about client business issues based on sound analysis plus client, sector and industry know how. Leverage insights to define, recommend and/or co-create strategic innovative solutions for clients.
• Lead the delivery of complex projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, good communication and collaboration between KF colleagues. Ensure constant focus on outcomes by advancing the team’s success and capabilities through sophisticated relationship management, influence, coaching, problem solving and diplomacy skills.
• Manage client expectations and ensure project members are sufficiently enabled to meet client expectations. Assess and measure the impact of our work on our clients' business.
• Support relationship development with large key clients as part of an account team. Act as relationship manager for large and complex clients including those with international points of contact and needs.
• Lead proposal writing and shaping of opportunities for complex/medium sized clients. View business issues from multiple expertise angles and leverage KF’s deep expertise to offer solutions that integrate across the business. May take the lead as subject matter expert working with relationship managers/sales leaders to shape significant commercial proposals that meet client needs.
• Deliver high quality work as an expertise lead that meets or exceeds client expectations.
• Lead and/or contribute to thought leadership and/or research, managing relationships with business and thought leaders in a defined expertise area and speaking on national (possibly international) platforms to enhance and extend the KF brand.
• Continue to deepen and broaden own consulting skills, business understanding and expertise to enable an expanded viewpoint on the issues impacting our clients. Actively look for opportunities to support the development of colleagues through mentoring, timely feedback and project-based development/coaching.
• Has a deep understanding of solutions, product offerings, our Korn Ferry (KF) Advisory point-of-view, frameworks, delivery tools and processes to design innovative solutions for clients. Is recognized as a national and often global resource/subject matter expert for KF Advisory, making significant contributions to practice development, leading the national and/or global deployment of new, commercially viable products and services, in the service of global initiatives.
• Lead in the QA/Peer review process within an area of specialization. Lead in contributing best in class work products and tools to KF knowledge bases.

Professional Experience/ Qualifications/ Skills

• 10+ years of work experience in management consulting with a focus in job architecture, compensation, organization design or workforce planning
• Track record of helping clients to develop and implement job architecture solutions with a strong emphasis on intersections with skills, career paths, pay, and change management
• Skilled in several of the following areas:
  • Job architecture design
  • Job evaluation and leveling methodologies
  • Rewards and Benefits
  • Career pathing and career mobility
  • Organization design
  • Organization effectiveness analytics and diagnosis
  • People strategy development and implementation
  • Workforce and talent analytics, diagnosis and strategy
• Strong client management and selling capabilities; track record of growing relationships with current clients and contributing to acquisition of new clients
• Financial literacy, business acumen, and a profit conscious mindset with the ability to analyze market data, interpret P&L information, and translate that information into meaningful action plans.
• Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to work independently. Ability to proactively achieve goals and strategies under shifting conditions and with different tasks, job responsibilities, and people.
• Fluency in PowerPoint and Excel (pivot tables, Vlookups, Macros); familiarity with data analytics/visualization tools such as Power BI, Alteryx and Tableau preferred.
• Ability to communicate ideas and recommendations to clients in a professional, clear, concise and engaging way.

EDUCATION

Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry

If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.