People Consultant Job Description
People consultant
provides consulting services, through cross-departmental partnerships, to managers regarding team member performance, management practices, human resource policies, talent management, and compensation.
People Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Assisting the Head of and Manager's People to translate business requirements into People solutions to meet the business strategy and People Plan
Supporting the ongoing management of People Leader Fundamentals and Coaching strategies within the Performance Units
Proactively planning and supporting the delivery of cyclical activities
Liaising with Capability to enable delivery of Enterprise Services & Transformation capability agenda including both BAU and new capability initiatives
Maintaining strong links with COE (Talent, Recruitment, Workplace Relations, Remuneration, and Capability) to ensure there is a strong understanding of the offerings to support the business with the right solutions
Developing working relationships as appropriate with the Leadership teams and People Leaders across the business to enable seamless execution of deliverables and alternative contact point if the Head of and Manager's People are unavailable
Lead communication and engagement advice and activities that bring our employee value proposition to life for our people
Work with Manager, People and Leadership Communications to provide communication guidance and support for key People activities that support our strategy, values and EVP such as employee experience, SUSU, talent management, diversity and inclusion, Corporate Responsibility/employee benefits
Take a leadership role within the team and act as 2IC for Manager, People and Leadership Communication when appropriate
Advocate and share best practice employee communications expertise, insights and measurement within the function
People Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for People Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: SHRM, MBTI, DSS, UN, PMI, OCM
Education for People Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the people consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Business, Psychology, Graduate, Human Resources, Management, Economics, MBA, Finance, Statistics, Education
Skills for People Consultant
Desired skills for people consultant include:
Compensation
Employment policies and practices
Google Drive
Spreadsheet and presentations software
Staffing
Talent management best practices
Workday and Salesforce
Payroll and Tax legislation
ADP
Data augmentation / migration
Desired experience for people consultant includes:
Helping clients solve complex issues by performing analysis, providing recommendations and utilising a combination of experience, industry knowledge, tools, and technology
Developing work plans for components of client engagements and leading the delivery of defined project objectives
Managing one or multiple workstreams in client projects, coaching junior team members and producing high quality deliverables
Working with a range of stakeholders, and being seen as a subject matter expert within client organisations and by colleagues
Supporting business development by contributing to new business proposals and taking role in industry and account teams
Training and change capability development
People Consultant Examples
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People Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is looking for a people consultant. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for people consultant
- Delivering change management on a variety of business change programmes including M&A, business and functional transformation, regulatory change and cost reduction
- Building credibility with operational teams across a range of organisational stakeholders
- Assessing the people impacts of operating model change including process, technology and organisation structure
- Measuring the success of change programmes – through the use of analytics and robust benefits management
- Supporting the development of innovative approaches and ideas to deliver change management solutions to clients
- Data quality - we’ve already been on the journey to get our foundation data ready for the next big thing
- Our team is data savvy, inquisitive, and hungry to see what’s next
- Bots & Predictive Modelling - we are serious about implementing automation throughout our processes to create remarkable and impactful experiences for our employees and candidates
- The team you’ll be joining is unique, progressive, and focused on delivering results
- Assess change / business readiness to assess the effectiveness of the change strategies and initiatives
Qualifications for people consultant
- Ability to look at the bigger picture have a keen eye for detail
- Ability to balance logic and analytical thinking with empathy
- Curiosity to learn about new businesses
- Proven expertise of working with data, highly numerate and able understand the value that analytics can deliver
- Advanced Excel (v-look ups, macros, pivot tables)
- Experience in data modelling, visualisation or statistical tools such as Microsoft Business Intelligence, IBM Cognos, SAP Business Warehouse, Oracle OBIEE, MicroStrategy, Roambi, Tableau, QlikView, Tibco Spotfire, SAS (including visual analytics), or IBM SPSS
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Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of people consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for people consultant
- Consult collaboratively with HR in the assigned business groups to understand business strategy and to construct learning, leadership and OD solutions that meet business needs
- Marketing the PD vision and programs to HR, business leaders and employees through robust communication strategy
- Actively involved in account management with a range of different client organisations
- Leading complex/ large projects
- Comfortable interacting with and presenting at board level
- Able to effectively manage relationships with senior level stakeholders and influence at senior levels within the business
- Passionate! Our MCs will develop thought leadership, present white papers and speak at seminars and conferences
- Architecting a global workforce planning strategy and approach that is tied to broader business portfolio movements, and introducing innovative solutions that will accelerate our ability to have the right talent in place aligned to future business direction
- Driving organization design, organization effectiveness, and operating model engagements for our client partners
- Maintaining the candidate recruitment management system (currently Taleo) including distribution of correspondence and producing reports and statistics as required
Qualifications for people consultant
- Advanced degree in business / economics / maths with a focus in quantitative methods and/or equivalent working experience in the data analytics space
- A keen interest in Talent, HR, Organisation Design or Change Management
- Previous experience of gamification and / or Artificial Intelligence would also be advantageous
- Strong understanding of data management principles, and analytic technology architecture design and service processing
- Previous experience of predictive analysis
- Ability to merge data sets and work with structured and unstructured data
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of people consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for people consultant
- Own your own portfolio of projects and deliverables as we execute on our people strategy
- Responsible for the smooth running of P&P operations including recording and managing people movements, reporting and WH&S injury management
- Communications as part of the rollout and change management activities associated with strategy execution
- Passion, energy and pragmatism when working with senior stakeholders
- Ability to confidently and effectively communicate, both written and verbally
- Ability to think quickly and flexibly, to learn and synthesise new and/or complex information and be able to examine data and problems carefully
- Organising all training logistics such as printing, catering, invitations, room bookings, post course evaluations and pre-work where required
- Communicating to facilitators, attendees and internal stakeholders in a clear and timely manner, including managing the Talent Development in boxes and intranet pages
- Liaising with offshore colleagues to ensure accurate registration and attendance records in the Learning Management System
- Managing the calendars and coordination of the national service line curriculums
Qualifications for people consultant
- Experience of using visualisation tools
- Prior supervisory experience of more junior staff
- Relevant degree required
- Master’s degree in human resources, organizational development, learning, business or related field preferred
- We’d love to see the work you are proud of, and the amazing things you have done so far
- It will be advantageous (but not absolutely essential) if you have a professional HR, Digital or Marketing qualification (but please see the bullet above!)
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Our innovative and growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of people consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for people consultant
- Proven ability of working with data and analytics and able to use this information to improve business intelligence and data analysis/business insight
- Exploit simple data models to provide evidence for changes to organisational structures, HR policies and practices, and transformation programmes
- Support the design and develop the provision of critical analytic assets such as measurement frameworks, data models, analytics applications and data visualisation tools
- Build and implement analytics solutions on a variety of platforms ranging from KPI dashboards to the application of predictive analytic capabilities
- Manage quality, accuracy and usability of analytical tools / technology during design phases
- Analyse data integrity, accuracy and usability for business intelligence applications
- Bring data to life and tell the story behind the analysis
- Own and drive key strategic people projects and initiatives across Consulting nationally, by employing strong project and change management methodologies
- Implement and manage talent life cycle programs in conjunction with the Sydney People and Performance Manager, including performance and remuneration review
- Deploy and tailor a range of firm wide initiatives across the Consulting business including diversity and inclusion, agile working and wellness, by developing and executing comprehensive communication and change management plans
Qualifications for people consultant
- Ability to business partner with global functional heads in a time of disruptive changes
- Ability to influence effectively stakeholders and colleagues with potential conflicting interests across the organization
- Proven analytical and conceptual thinking skills
- 7 years’ experience working in a top tier consulting firm (OD/Talent Strategy practice) HR
- Ability to understand the business and solve business issues
- Engage with senior leadership and build credibility quickly
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Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of people consultant. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for people consultant
- Contribute to, and may also be responsible for, ownership and execution of project deliverables, particularly in the analytics space
- To identify baseline indicators that could be measured for monitoring and evaluation purposes to determine the level of success of the project
- To examine the needs, strengths, opportunities and challenges in the HDC and other mandated institutions in developing and implementing a smart cities project (to ensure project sustainability)
- To assess the community needs as beneficiaries of a smart cities project and to identify local strategies for citizenship building and evidence-based decision making
- Identify, based on findings, the most suitable modality for smart cities implementation in the Maldives and the strategies for developing and implementing a smart city project including recommended timeframes
- To address the data gap in Hulhumale’ and assist HDC in acquiring some relevant data on Hulhumale’ resident population for evidence based decision making
- Manage monthly Talent Analytics dashboards
- Develop and maintain reporting/analytics out of Cirrus
- Play a key role in the design and implementation of Release 3 for Project Cirrus (Workforce Analytics)
- Liaise with EDC team on provision of reporting
Qualifications for people consultant
- Capacity to identify areas of opportunities to improve current processes and take the initiative to design and implement them
- Ability to develop plans and lead meetings that set strategy, objectives and projects on complex organization design problems
- HR Master degree/ MBA preferred
- Be part of a talented and experienced HR team, where individual strengths and values inform how we work
- Seriously drive your development by constantly taking on new things and coming up with new ideas
- Experience of working in a partnership and highly matrixed organisation