Assistant Manager - IGH People

Job Title

Grade

Assistant Manager – People Consulting IGH

D

Location

Capability

London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds

Consulting

Service Line Group

People Consulting

KPMG Overview

KPMG is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Tax & Pensions, Consulting, Deal Advisory and Technology services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity and insight to our clients’ most critical challenges.

With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry. Our work is often complex, yet our vision is simple: to be the clear choice for our clients, for our people and for the communities we work in.

In the Consulting practice we have a number of teams, such as Risk Consulting, Strategy and Consulting and our aim is to deliver our strategy of Connected Consulting for our clients – ensuring we help them in a fully joined up way, delivering these services seamlessly to address client needs. In our People Consulting team our strategy is to Deliver, Disrupt, Develop and Together.

People Consulting Overview
People Consulting is an integral part of KPMG’s Advisory practice and a growing part of our business. This team help to transform the performance of organisations by changing the way people are led, managed and developed. We do this by focusing on two key areas – delivering the people agenda on large scale, complex, transformational change programmes and transforming the HR function.

We have 5 key capabilities that work across the sectors:

Behavioural Change Management

Organisation Development

HR Transformation

Talent Management

Workforce Intelligence

We are committed to creating a dynamic, challenging and engaging place to work and we are a passionate and diverse community where everyone feels valued, respected and empowered to truly enjoy the work they do. 

Within the IGH People Consulting team we group around a number of market sectors including Justice, Security & Safety, Transport and Infrastructure, Education, Productivity & Skills, Health and Human Services, Local Government plus Trade, Treasury and Investment.

Role Description

We are seeking a talented individual to manage work streams on client engagements and to take a pro-active business development role by building relationships with clients. You would need knowledge and skills in Behavioural Change Management, Organisation Development and ideally in one other area:

• Behavioural change management: Ensuring organisations realise the benefits of large scale change projects by embedding new behaviours and minimising underperformance during the change
• Organisation development and Learning: Target operating model development, organisation design, role clarity, performance management, organisational culture, employee development and reward/recognition
• HR transformation: Creating cost effective, integrated HR functions that contribute to the delivery of business strategy
• Talent Management: Helping clients identify, retain and develop talent, designing reward strategies/incentive schemes and performance management frameworks/processes
• Workforce Transformation: Helping organisations get the most from their workforce, including strategic and operational workforce planning, terms and conditions of employment, TUPE, plus reward and incentive management

Our work is incredibly varied and on a day to day basis your work could cover:

• Managing a small team of consultants and/or facilitate client teams
• Providing specialist advice and working closely with client leads and team members to successfully deliver project outcomes
• Contributing to People Consulting business development, including working with key account teams to scope opportunities and developing compelling proposals to win new clients
• Contributing to the development of People Consulting Behavioural Change Management and Organisation Design methodology, tools, thought leadership and our wider People Consulting practice
• Taking a significant role in the growth of the team and wider practice, sharing knowledge and supporting the development of other team members

Experience and Background

Candidates should have the following experience:

• Working within organisations covered by our IGH market areas outlined above
• Responsibility for standalone deliverables that add significantly to the overall success of a project or work stream
• Commercial awareness and an ability to identify new business opportunities
• Acting as a subject matter expert in advising clients to maximise benefits while reducing risks
• Managing competing agendas/priorities and establish achievable programmes or projects
• Coaching team members to ensure excellent client delivery, whilst also enabling their career development
• Using your expertise, knowledge and experience to further develop and promote the core People Consulting propositions

Qualifications and Skills

The qualifications and skills for these roles are not prescriptive, but you’d need to demonstrate a significant number of the following:

• Behavioural change management and Organisation Development skills and experience
• Stakeholder management and communication skills, both written and oral
• Demonstrating comfort with numbers, processes and policies
• Qualifications and/or accreditation in one or more psychometric assessments tools
• Ability to thrive in a fast paced working environment

We’d be keen to hear from you if you have at number of years of relevant consulting experience or you have industry experience of Behavioural Change Management.

Intelligent Working

We recognise that as individuals, we each have particular needs and that one size doesn’t fit all, when it comes to how, when and where you work. That’s why we’re proud to offer our colleagues agile working options. We believe in putting you at the centre of your career – KPMG will offer the training, development and stimulating work environment to help you get to where your career ambitions are. We are happy to discuss your own requirements and our range of flexible working arrangements in more detail, should that be of interest and, as part of the recruitment process, we can put you in touch with those in the team who already work flexibly.

Applying with a disability

KPMG are proud to be an inclusive, equal opportunity employer and we seek to attract and retain the best people from the widest possible talent pool. As a member of the Business Disability Forum we're committed to ensuring that you are treated fairly throughout our Recruitment Process. Should you be successful after the initial application stage, please discuss any reasonable adjustments that you may require, with your recruitment contact.