Senior People Consultant – Senior HR Manager

About the role: 

PwC is one of the world’s leading Professional Services firms who advise some of the most successful organisations, entrepreneurs, and private businesses on a range of services including Audit, Risk, Tax, Consulting, Deals. We are innovative and driven to deliver to our clients while meeting our purpose of building trust in society and solving important problems. We strive to be a great place to work for our employees and offer career defining and development opportunities across all our teams. 

Our Business Solutions teams provide a vital role, making sure we have all the right resources, services, and technology to be the leading firm. These teams play a key role in helping the firm go to market quickly, making it easier for our people to do their jobs and delivering exceptional value to the rest of the business. 

A career in the People Function will provide you with the opportunity to work in partnership with business leadership and key stakeholders to develop, drive and execute the people strategy, to continuously enhance the employee experience and business performance. 

The strategic business partnering team will provide consultation on people strategy, policies, and programmes to their Business Unit. The Senior People Consultant reports to the Line of Service (LoS) Senior People Consultant Team Leader and is responsible for working alongside the Business Unit (BU) leadership team to drive the People Function agenda and people-related activities across their BU.

What your day will look like: 

• Provide the key interface across all areas of the People Agenda in their Business Unit, while collaborating with Centresof Excellence (CoEs) and Specialist Business Partnering teams.

• Manage the cyclical performance, reward, and talent management processes for their BUs, and drive People Function-sponsored strategic projects.

• Provide employee and business insights on people service delivery to the People Solutions team.

• Leverage expertise and data insights within the CoEs to meet the strategic people needs of the business and support in solving end-to-end problems.

The role is for you if: 

• You have extensive business partnering experience with a strong understanding of all areas of HR.

• You possessa holistic understanding of the Business Partner function and key People Function processes and policies that enable an effective and strategic people strategy.

• You can advise and consult with business leaders to help them find lasting solutions to persistent and urgent issues, integrating the core PwC values into all activities conducted.

• You possess data analytics skills with the ability to use data to provide insights to the business to drive and steer business decisions, including experience of data analytics tools and platforms.

• You have strong commercial skills with the ability to turn these into proactive people strategies to drive the business.

• You have strong people management and relationship-building skills to influence key stakeholders and leadership, and you are a strong written and verbal communicator with the ability to adapt your working style to influence, negotiate, and find resolutions.