Job Description

People & Change at PA

PA Consulting work with the largest and most prominent organisations with strong demand in across the private sector including Financial Services, Pharmaceuticals and Retail & Manufacturing.

PA’s People & Change experts create lasting change using the power of technology and a creative mindset to solve real human problems, helping our clients meet the challenges of a fast-changing workplace. At present our Workforce Transition & team is growing rapidly as our clients continue to evolve their organisational models and HR practice to face their future people challenges.

As a P&C Consultant with a focus on HR you will be focused on transforming the size and shape of our existing client workforces. This will include:

• Creating the future organisation – designing and target operating model that’s right for the future and supporting clients as they move people across into new roles

• Implementing major workforce change- supporting and advising leadership teams on how to deliver the organisational changes

• Developing HR strategy & Building HR capability – Creating an impactful HR strategy and developing HR skills and resources.

People & Change Make a Difference

Examples of the valuable impact P&C make include:

Sustainability Company

Supported the HRLT review of global HR Operating Model to strengthen operational efficiency and deliver greater value for customers. Scope included c700 HR employees serving c50,000 customers over 40+ countries.

UK Retailer

Restructured the Head Office to reflect an appropriate structure to support the revised and extended franchise model as well as delivering savings of up to £15m.

Civil Service

Supporting the staff transfer of 7,300 staff from 52 different organisations, whilst ensuring operational delivery and staff are supported and engaged in the future.

Food Retailer

Designed the communication and engagement approach to support a major change in operating model in the commercial function, affecting over 500 staff.

Qualifications

About You

Essential experience required for this HR P&C Consultant role includes working alongside business leaders to deliver major organisational change and as well as possessing, or in a consulting/ project capacity.

You will be familiar with all areas of the employee life cycle and have focussed on specific areas of HR discipline. You are likely to have worked in a large organisation with a mature HR operating model where the HR team are well integrated into the business.

You will have delivered change around HR structures and built capability within an HR function.

Major workforce transformations experience will include:

• Organisation redesign

• Operating model implementation

• Restructuring and redundancies

• Mergers and acquisitions

• TUPE.

Additional Information

Benefits

• Private medical insurance
• 25 days annual leave with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
• Company pension scheme
• Annual performance-based bonus
• Life and Income protection insurance
• Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
• Additional optional benefits (dental, critical illness, spouse/partner life assurance)

Diversity

Our approach to Inclusion and Diversity is a key enabler to our purpose - ‘Bringing Ingenuity to Life’. At PA, we are committed to creating a supportive culture where our people can thrive. To bring ingenuity to life for our clients we need people with different perspectives who think innovatively. We are on a journey to create an ever more inclusive place to work, where we all feel supported and can be ourselves.

We want our people to experience a working environment that promotes dignity, equality and respect for all. In terms of recruitment, we believe diversity makes us a stronger firm and we look to employ people with different ideas, styles and skillsets. This diversity stimulates a rich, creative environment – one in which our people develop, and our clients enjoy enduring results. We’re committed to recruiting, promoting and rewarding our people solely based on their ability to contribute to PA’s goals, without regard to their sex, race, disability, religion, national origin, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age or marital status.

* Please note you must already have the unconditional right to live and work in the UK. We welcome international applications, but we are unable to offer sponsorship for work permits, so you will need to have the full right to live and work in the UK. Unfortunately, your application will be automatically rejected if you do not have these rights.