HR & Reward Principal Consultant

**About the role**:
Zellis is seeking a Principal Consultant to deliver the HR and Reward transformations for our customers and prospects. An external facing role, you will not have a direct team but instead will lead a virtual team, on an engagement-by-engagement basis, to deliver the outcomes. The types of projects you will be delivering will drive HR and Reward transformation for customers enabling them to take full advantage of good practice, AI and automation. This Principal Consultant will be extremely credible with customers, have a strong delivery history and be enthusiastic about transformation. The Principal Consultant is expected to have close working relationships with Commercial, Implementation, Technology and Managed Services.

Please note this is a 12 Month FTC

**In this role your key responsibilities will be**:

- Customer-facing involvement with clients; specifically, to review the current operations and strategy, undertake a gap analysis against good practice (process and technology), process redesign, organisational design and implementation of the recommendations.
- Undertake job evaluations and/or pay audits for both public and private sector customers.
- Readily embrace new product features and the opportunity this presents to deliver improved digitalisation to customers.
- Identifying and pulling together the right project team with the right mix of skills for each engagement and project managing simple projects without the need for a project manager.
- Own the delivery of each project in line with expected outcomes, bringing accountability for customer satisfaction, customer benefits and quality KPI achievement and delivering in line with target margins.
- Great collaborator: willing to take leadership role in driving initiatives, working across organisations, and structuring approaches to new opportunities.
- Leading on post project reviews and implementing lessons learnt in other engagements.
- Cross-functional influence, relationship building, and project management skills.

**Skills & experience**:

- Exceptional communication skills and ability to develop robust and enduring relationships with stakeholders at all levels of the internal and/or customer business.
- An action oriented and collaborative collaborator by nature. Enthusiastic, driven and with defined leadership qualities with the ability to gain confidence and buy-in from his/her peers.
- Strong delivery history for improving the internal HR, Reward and/or WFM operations.
- Experience of undertaking job evaluations (either public or private sector) and pay audits (gender, disability and/or ethnicity).
- Strong customer focus and ability to act as a point of escalation, driving through the remediations.
- Continuous improvement mindset and problem-solving skills.
- Capable of conveying complex concepts in simple terms and of tailoring presentation style of delivery to suit the audience.
- Must be able to work effectively at all levels. Will have the gravitas, passion, and knowledge to be credible in all business situations.
- Strong stature and presence. Must be highly credible both internally and with business partners.
- Excellent people skills will be needed to build strong relationships and to sustain confidence with other colleagues that will be critical to the success of this role.

**Benefits & culture**:
At Zellis we create market-leading HR & Payroll products and services, to power exceptional employee experiences so that you and your people do better. Our multi-award-winning products pay over five million employees a year, with almost half (42%) of the FTSE 100, 50% of the top retailers and 30% of the top universities in the UK & Ireland as customers, making us the largest provider of Payroll and HR software and managed services.

Our vision is to be the clear leader in pay, reward, analytics, and people experiences. We're passionate about creating an environment where people want to join, belong to, and be part of a progressive organisation. Our values, which were defined with input from all of our 2,000 colleagues, we live and breathe every day:

- Unstoppable together.
- Always learning.
- Make it count.
- Think scale.

Our people are critical to our ongoing success; we’re proud of our inclusive culture that gives you the platform to grow, challenge the status quo and play a crucial role in further enhancing our market position as the leading provider of HR & Payroll software and services. With Zellis you’ll have the chance to stretch and challenge yourself in an environment that’s varied, flexible and hugely supportive.

We also love to reward and recognise our brilliant colleagues. As part of your benefits package, you’ll receive:

- A competitive base salary, plus cash car allowance.
- 25 days annual leave, plus your birthday off and the opportunity to buy additional holiday.
- Private medical insurance.
- Life assurance 4x salary.
- Enhanced pension scheme with company contributions up to 8.5%.
- A hug