Manager - HR Strategy, Employee Experience & Emerging Technologies

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

With over 1,000 professionals in the UK, our Human Capital practice is renowned for providing distinctive depth and breadth of HR and Organisational Transformation services to clients undertaking complex major programmes.

Our HR Consulting offering consistently innovates and drives HR and Workforce Transformation for some of the largest UK private sector organisations and well-known global brands. In HR Transformation, you will be joining a rapidly growing part of the business that partners with our clients to help them with HR Transformation and transitioning to the Future of Work. This could be building a new people and workforce strategy, employee brand, employee value proposition, reward model, implementing a new HR operating model, redesigning end to end talent processes, development and capability pathways and everything in between.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

As a Manager, you'll lead projects and/or large-scale workstreams to deliver high quality client work on two key areas; Employee Experience and People Technology Strategy (not the implementation bit!). You'll specialise in one more than the other, but the work we do is inextricably interlinked. We work with/on an unparalleled range of clients and variety of projects: from exploring, selecting or optimising people-focused tech, to defining and delivering end-to-end employee experience.

Generally, Managers act as project leads; ensuring projects run smoothly and efficiently, guiding and advising clients through best practice, as well as managing teams from an output and pastoral perspective. Related activities that you will oversee might include:

• Appropriate project approach definition: design and successfully deliver projects

• Effective scoping: collaborate with clients - gather requirements, feedback and input for workshops and meetings

• Impactful research & analysis: guide your team to design and deliver large- and small-scale research engagement with employees and client stakeholders. Apply logic to deliver insight and innovative solutions

• Exceptional outputs: prepare, oversee and review written content / deliverables to define recommendations

• People development: work effectively in diverse and inclusive teams, where people are recognised for their contribution. Support and manage team members to help them thrive. Become a 'People Leader' to support individuals pastorally and in their career development

Practice & business development: be a thought-leader, play an active role in new business activities (bids) and act as an Employee Experience and/or People Tech expert. Lead internal programmes / initiatives, aligned to business priorities and personal interests

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Working with senior leadership, Managers play a key role in the development and growth of the business and team. Whilst we're looking for the commercial experience needed to support this as well as strong knowledge and expertise of Employee Experience and/or People Technology, we're ultimately looking for the right attitude and mindset! Our preference is for you to have experience of working in a fast-paced consultative environment. You will have / be:

• Passionate about people with a clear understanding of the current work-related market trends
• Experience in a relevant and/or transferable field - we're not precious about what this is, but we are looking for you to articulate how it fits. Examples: consulting, HR (including specialist areas like recruitment, learning, benefits, reward, performance & talent), employee experience, customer experience, HR technology, digital
• Track record in managing successful delivery of large scale programmes / engagements
• Analytical, adaptable and logical problem-solver. Can manage risks and expectations in high pressured and time-critical situations to deliver excellent work in a range of client scenarios
• Highly personable and influential. An excellent communicator and relationship builder - effectively able to manage senior stakeholders as well as complex and diverse client scenarios
• Eager to work in and to encourage a collaborative, supportive and meaningful environment where everyone is celebrated as an individual

Connect to your business - Technology and Transformation

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, innovation and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest tech and transformational challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Human Capital

People are what powers enterprise. That's why we need to focus on the human experience in an ever-changing, digital world. We help clients utilise technology to support their workforce, organisation, and HR Transformations.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"The great culture, flexibility, and range of experiences that Deloitte offers is what sets this firm apart. In Human Capital, Deloitte is far ahead of any of our immediate competitors."

Sophia - Technology and Transformation

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in London with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Be part of Deloitte North and South Europe

At Deloitte, you'll be joining an innovative firm, working together to make positive change happen. In the UK, we are part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network.

Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta) Ireland, the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK, as well as countries further afield in the Middle East, including Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen).

There are more than 75,000 people that make up our dynamic teams across these regions, and we have an unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in a wide range of business areas across different regions.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers