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Who You’ll Work With
You will be based out of our Gurugram office as part of our People team.
This team is dedicated to guiding our colleagues’ growth, career opportunities, capability building, and development and manages the full range of professional development and staffing activities. Our People team is part of the global People & HR function. You will work with colleagues, consultants, leaders, and other PD professionals across India on tasks with international reach, with a particular focus on making a difference to the development and experience of the India office consultants.
What You’ll Do
You will be responsible for supporting the execution of a full range of professional development and staffing activities for a pool of 600+ consultants on a daily basis.
This needs to be done in collaboration with multiple stakeholders in the office’s People team and other related teams within the local and global network of the firm. Innovation and excellence are at the heart of all of our people strategy efforts and therefore we are keen to hire talented and ambitious people who have a high entrepreneurial drive and relish the opportunity to shape and create the growth path for our consultant pool.
You will be responsible for managing the full range of staffing and talent management activities on a daily basis. These would include developing and facilitating professional development conversations, providing coaching and guidance on appropriate assignments, skill development, career progression and other topics as they arise.
You will be taking ownership for one of the key people cohorts within the office and will be expected to continually play an “ear to the ground” role on people issues, monitoring and raising emerging people issues for your cohort with the office leadership and driving associated problem solving and program development as needed.
You will provide thought leadership on the development and implementation of key people initiatives and be willing to innovate as required. This will involve recommending, managing and executing personnel practices as needed, e.g., flexibility, exit/leave processes, mobility, as well as building a strong, trust-based relationship with partners.
You will build strong relationships with the local and global firm network of professional development colleagues to facilitate timely information sharing, cross-office mobility opportunities, best practice exchange, etc. You will also be involved in conducting analyses, regularly updating relevant databases and facilitating the generation of key development and staffing metrics for the local office leadership.
Qualifications
- Master’s degree in human resources is desirable
- 6+ years of relevant experience in professional development and/or human resources, or experience within a professional services firm either as a consultant or within an HR/people role
- Experience and confidence in using IT-based systems and tools; proficiency in using MS Excel with sound analytical abilities
- Strong interest in people development and talent management
- Strong influencing capabilities
- Intrinsic operational leadership skills, prioritizing strategic initiatives and complete ownership of workstreams
- Comfort with numbers, analysis and systems
- Non-hierarchical approach with the ability to build consensus across diverse groups of stakeholders
- Capable of working under pressure and in situations involving conflict
- Strong integrity when dealing with confidential information
- Ability to adhere to the highest process standards and stand firm on decisions
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)