Manager – Strategy Workforce

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At North Highland, we believe in doing great things together.

With you.

With our clients.

With a perspective on actions today that shape tomorrow.

As the world’s most innovative, collaborative consulting group, we’ve built a space to share ideas like never before.

Do you have the skills, passion and commitment to transform industries for the better?

Think you can bring your A-game every day?

If so, join us.

We like big thinkers with action on the brain…

Without solid foundations for the here and now, the future is hard to imagine.

That’s why our Strategy team advises on staying nimble with the big picture in mind.

Whether clients want to disrupt old markets or grow into new ones, we build a top-down plan, taking in everything they’ll need to do it.

Facts, figures, creative thinking
– all of it inspires you.

But the bottom line isn’t scary; you know numbers carry more weight than words.

Why North Highland?

Every choice you make will give you the opportunity to grow.

It’s our employee ownership model
– with plenty of coaching and personal development opportunities in the mix.

For us, training doesn’t have an off switch.

You’ll learn new things, both during and beyond traditional working hours.

We want people who strive for the next level, then the next.

At North Highland, you’re never a number.

Our firm is large enough to scale up, test your mettle and tackle big challenges, but small enough that clients won’t lose your face in a crowd.

You’re recognized individually.

We started as three leaders and a kitchen table.

Which means we know expectations are made to be broken.

Want to surprise us?

Do it.

Experiment and stretch yourself.

There’s room to grow as a budding entrepreneur.

This Manager, Workforce Optimization position is a senior role in our Strategy Practice.

North Highland is deliberately and thoughtfully growing our Strategy Practice.

To do so, we are seeking amazing candidates that possess dynamic skill sets and experiences and can effectively contribute to our growth.

We need candidates with world-class strategy consulting skills and deep transformation expertise to serve as a trusted advisor to our key clients.

You should be a natural collaborator with deep experience partnering with multidisciplinary teams and -importantly
– you should be as keenly interested in practice building as you are in delivering impactful work for clients.

We’ll ask you to do both.

We seek candidates with a heavy focus on Workforce Transformation, e.g., areas including Workforce Strategy, Workforce Optimization and Enablement, Operating Model and Organizational Design, Culture, Talent Management, Employee Experience and Engagement, HR Transformation, Workforce and Business Process Outsourcing and Insourcing, but she/he will also be involved, as needed, in complex engagements that address Customer and Operational challenges.

Exciting work you will do:

 

• Ownership and leadership of client relationships and multi-disciplinary engagements
• Coaching and development of junior team members
• Co-selling with North Highland executives
• Expansion of existing business
• Collaboration with your fellow leadership team to drive practice and firm growth

What you will need:

• 5-7 years of previous work experience at a leading consultancy, advisory, and/or top strategy firm
• A track record of leading successful engagements, including workforce strategy, workforce optimization and enablement, operating model and organizational design, culture, talent management, employee experience and engagement, HR transformation, workforce and business process outsourcing
• An ability to authentically establish credibility, build consensus, and activate collaboration with clients and teammates.
• Generosity in sharing experiences, expertise, and insights to help others develop and grow.
• Proposal development experience and a proven ability to effectively sell business solutions to clients.
• Experience developing high-performing teams in ways proven to drive desired business impact.
• Experience in developing a business case and/or a case for change
• A proven upward and fast-moving career trajectory
• Graduate degree (Master’s or Doctoral) and/or MBA combined with a bachelors degree from an accredited college/university.

  Advanced (post-undergraduate) degrees are valuable but not essential.

  Greater emphasis will be placed on the quality and relevance of previous work experience from a leading consultancy, advisory, and/or top strategy firm.

Key qualities we’re seeking include:

• Strategic agility and intellectual curiosity,
• Flexibility and creative thinking,
• Confidence and skill with storytelling techniques,
• Experience with strategic finance & value-based analysis & argumentation,
• Experience with the design, execution, and application of quantitative and qualitative research studies,
• Proficiency in leveraging primary and secondary research in problem solving and solution development,
• Experience with developing the skill and proficiency of junior Strategy Practice associates, and
• An ability to consistently deliver outstanding results.

** Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship by North Highland.

Work visa sponsorship will not be provided, now or in the future, for this position.

North Highland makes change happen for organizations who dare to be different.

By melding workforce, customer and operational transformation, they are one of the world’s leading consulting groups, with 65+ offices around the globe.

They break new ground today so tomorrow is easier to explore.

North Highland is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)/Affirmative Action employer.

All qualified applicants will receive fair and impartial consideration without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.