
Vice President, HR Solutions Process Excellence Consultant (Global - Location Agnostic)
- London
- Permanent
- Full-time
- 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 optimize 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
- Eager to be at the forefront of HR innovation?
- Keen to make an impact and drive meaningful change in organisations?
- Energized 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?
- Serve as an internal consultant, working with clients in GHR and the business to lead and deliver process design and process improvement engagements.
- Establish trust and credibility with clients; build and maintain long-term working relationships across GHR and the business.
- Lead planning, design, development and execution of process design engagement activities including:
- Document and analyze current state HR processes across regions and countries
- Evaluate and design processes and procedures to increase productivity, reduce costs, improve time management, and improve risk management
- Advise and collaborate with stakeholders on developing standards, identifying, assessing, and mitigating risks in process development to enable results and optimize outcomes
- Develop and maintain process documentation, including identifying changes to existing processes and related policies
- Work with teams and/or train managers to ensure that processes are clear and can be applied quickly and efficiently
- Select, tailor and implement methods and tools for improving business processes at program, project or team level
- Assess the feasibility of business process changes and recommend alternative approaches
- Monitor and assess implemented processes to ensure outcomes meet expectations and proactively evaluate steps to adjust for improvements in targeted outcomes
- Facilitate interviews, focus groups / listening sessions, and working sessions with clients and stakeholders
- Develop and maintain process monitoring tools such as dash boards, scorecards, SharePoint sites, etc.
- Provide day-to-day management and guidance across projects to support successful engagement delivery
- Execute knowledge and capability transfer to clients (as needed)
- Identify, escalate and mitigate engagement risks and issues
- Contribute to HR Solutions communities of practice (e.g., change management & communications, process excellence, organizational design & effectiveness, experience & design thinking) to enable ongoing team member capability development and enhanced client results
- Practice 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
- Support continuous improvement and upskilling for the organization, advocate for new ways of working
- Prepare and present reports to senior leadership on the progress and impact of process improvement initiatives.
- Help foster and sustain a diverse, inclusive, energizing, and supportive HR Solutions culture, with a focus on results, efficient and collaborative work practices, and wellbeing
- Highly skilled at process documentation (e.g., procedures, process flows, etc.) and business process management methodology including the use of process mapping tools and software (e.g., Visio, etc.)
- Proven experience within a large, highly matrixed organization with recent work:
- Leading execution of change initiatives, documenting, improving, and implementing complex, cross-functional business processes
- Conducting data analysis, and delivering executive-level reporting
- Advanced knowledge of and demonstrated experience designing, analyzing, and modeling business processes, methodologies, and/or toolkits
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience creating and evaluating comprehensive, complex, end to end processes in a regulatory environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to present effectively to leadership
- Excellent meeting facilitation, working session / workshop management, and training skills
- Collaboration and influencing skills, with proven ability to address and manage stakeholder needs while prioritizing competing objectives, driving progress, and achieving results
- Negotiation and conflict management
- Proven ability to work effectively across cultures and in a global environment
- Experience in the financial services industry preferred
- Understanding of the HR function and HR service delivery
- Able to analyze data, formulate findings, and provide data-based recommendations
- Data analytics and reporting skills
- Designing and producing management reports
- Documenting processes at different levels using standard tools such as VSMs, SIPOC, process maps, procedures, job aids, etc.
- Analyzing and assessing complex processes for performance, gaps to requirements, improvement opportunities and layout solutions.
- Metrics design
- Statistical analysis
- MS Excel, Visio, SharePoint skills; Minitab or other statistical tools
- Presentation and meeting facilitation
- Skills in Executive communication
- Project Management
- Degree or equivalent work experience equally preferable.
- Degree in Business Management, Industrial Engineering, or a related field.
- Preferred certification: Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
- Demonstrates leadership
- Communicates effectively
- Identifies multiple paths to success using analytical and critical thinking as well as decision-making skills
- Operates strategically to support a culture of continuous improvement and systems thinking
- Makes sound business decisions in a complex work environment
- Collaborate with other business functions and divisions to advance business objectives
- Is flexible, decisive, and able to establish support from leadership
- Monitors industry trends and best practices and applies insights to advance the business
- Exhibits and fosters optimism, resilience, flexibility, and openness to others' ideas
- Inspires innovation and values learning as a lifelong professional objective
- Leads by example, engaging inclusively and with intent
- Always acts with integrity