Principal Consultant

REACH YOUR POTENTIAL | COLLABORATE WITH AMAZING PEOPLE | MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN

Do you have the skills, passion, and commitment to transform our clients for the better? Are you ready to be a changemaker? If so, join us.

North Highland is the world’s leading change and transformation consultancy. Simply put, we make change happen like no one else. And we’re on the hunt for a new Principal Consultant/Master Practitioner.

HOW WILL YOU MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN?

We help our clients grow and become more customer centric and made-for-change businesses by modernising client operations and transforming their workforce? You will work alongside our industry and practice leaders, identifying opportunities and shaping and delivering work to make this happen. You will work across FTSE 100 and the largest public sector clients and be able to bring deep knowledge of the latest workforce / people thinking into business transformation engagements. You will work and lead collaborative teams, bringing together talent and people strategy, operating model, organisational design, and talent / career development to embed results with our clients. You will be comfortable working at an enterprise level, but also confident in bringing leading edge perspectives to senior HR professionals and/or other functional leaders with workforce challenges.

We take pride in making sustainable improvements to the way our clients work and collaborate and are looking for individuals with that same passion to join us.

YOU WILL:

- Use your knowledge of workforce transformation strategy and design to influence senior clients and bring a workforce lens to organisational design, processes, and ways of working. You will be expected to collaboratively design strategies, align leaders, and manage project scope in ambiguous environments, delivering desired business outcomes and high-quality deliverables.
- You will work closely with other Strategy Practice colleagues to bring cross-capability expertise as integrated solutions to clients.
- Actively drive business development through the identification of new opportunities with new and existing clients and shaping and leading proposal development. Influence senior buyers through expertise, market knowledge across workforce transformation to support business growth.
- Participate in Strategy Practice initiatives to build and grow our approach to driving customer centric businesses by modernising client operations and transforming their workforce? objectives.
- Nurture talent in a high growth team, building scale as we expand our business and promoting our people centric culture as an ambassador for driving a great working experience.
- Further our firm wide Diversity, Equity & Inclusion ambitions, and role model behaviours for our teams.

IDEALLY, WE’D LIKE:

- 8+ years' professional, hands-on experience workforce transformation at an established consultancy and/or experience working in industry within an HR, People, Employee Engagement/Experience or Workforce transformation function.
- A demonstrated track record of successfully working on large, complex consulting engagements. This will include leading Workforce / People transformation strategy and design.
- Evidenced history of delivering projects across workforce transformation initiatives including organisation and operating model re-design, people strategy, upskilling/reskilling, HR transformation, strategic workforce planning, talent management and more.
- Experience using practical tools and methodologies in workforce engagement, employee experience strategy development and operating model design.
- An ability to build, lead and develop teams in thinking in a design-led, employee and/or customer-focused way.
- Successful business development focus, specifically in crafting proposals and pitching to clients. Establishing immediate credibility with c-suite clients to build consensus and achieve goals through influence.

NICE TO HAVE:

- Strategic Human Resources and HR transformation expertise.
- Specific industry expertise (preferred in Life Sciences, Transport, Financial Services, Public Sector).
- External accreditation or recognition via recognised professional bodies.
- Experience in creating expert solutions and methodologies in existing and new client accounts.
- An established voice in the market with the ability to engage and inspire a team and clients about trends, and our point of view.

TRANSFORMING CLIENTS. TRANSFORMING CAREERS.

Success—for both our clients and our colleagues—is all about putting people first and doing great things together. We believe that when we work as one team, we can take action today to build lasting capability for tomorrow.

We strive to have the most enviable culture on the planet, inspiring people to reach their full potential. Here’s how we make it happen:
Intentional, flexible growth. We never want you to settle. Leading your own growth and transformation is your prerogative—one which we’ll help you