Collaborative Solutions
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London, Greater London
Strategy and Transformation Senior Manager
Overview
Job Description
Strategy & Transformation Senior Manager is a senior individual contributor role with responsibility for leading engagements, contributing to practice development, coaching and mentoring others, and supporting business development and sales. The Senior Manager is provided coaching and direction for engagements but requires limited direct oversight of activities, seek and provide feedback to others, and provide exemplary customer service to internal and external stakeholders including clients, sales teams, consulting teams, engagement managers, and all Collaborative leadership. Responsibilities: * Consulting Leadership - act in a lead capacity on Strategy engagements including leading assessments and meetings, developing deliverables, providing guidance and direction to other Strategy team members, and delivering trusted business advisor support to clients. * Organizational Strategy - partner with senior executives to understand organizational perspectives and recommend best-fit methods to execute business strategies, improve operations and performance, and optimize roles and responsibilities. * Strategic Change - partner with senior executives to define the strategy, business initiatives, and organizational changes needed to gain leadership alignment, enable change leadership, promote stakeholder and employee engagement, enable further organizational change programs and plans. * Technology Adoption - work with clients to understand the people issues associated with technology implementations, specifically Workday and ancillary systems including but not limited to role re-definition, skill gaps, and change readiness. * Technology Implementation - partner with senior executives and program managers to understand an organizations inherent capability regarding governance, decision making, data integrity, and technology development to design strategies to set the stage for successful technology implementations. * Business Development - work collaboratively with internal sales teams as well as external sales teams such as Workday to understand the needs of the client and develop proposals, respond to RFP's, assist in writing SOW's, and present at conferences and trade events to market the Collaborative brand. * Knowledge Management - develops and maintains methodologies, tools, and templates to support strategic and implementation engagements from insights gained in prior experiences, researching best practices, and utilizing a continuous feedback loop with clients to ensure deliverables are timely and relevant. * Workday Knowledge - maintains a strong relationship with implementation consultants to understand and incorporate Workday changes and updates into recommendations and deliverables during strategic engagements. Provides knowledge transfer during transition from strategic engagement to implementation engagement ensuring client requirements, decisions, and culture are shared to enable a seamless transition between projects. Skills and Requirements: * 8+ years relevant experience in a consulting team-oriented environment in Human Resources Consulting, Finance Consulting, or strategic internal role in Human Resources or Finance * Bachelor's Degree required: Master's Degree preferred * Excellent communication skills both oral and written * Self-Management including attention to detail, organizational and time management, strong inclination to self-development * High emotional intelligence * Ability to work in ambiguous situations, strong flexible and adaptable inclinations * Willingness to travel 50 - 75% Equal Opportunity statement: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or status as a Vietnam or disabled veteran. Disability statement: Because we do business with the government, we must reach out to, hire and provide equal opportunity to qualified people with disabilities. If you'd like to voluntarily submit your disability status to us, please use the url in this posting to complete the Voluntary Self-Identification of Disability form and send it to EEO@collaborativesolutions.com. Any answer you provide will be kept private and will not be used against you in any way. For efficient navigation through the application, please only use the back button within the application, not the back arrow within your browser.