HR Capability Consultant

Are you a Human Resource (HR) transformation Consultant with Payroll transformation experience looking to move into a HR Capability Consultant role, in a rapidly growing unique consulting business in the public health sector?

NHS Shared Business Services is a unique partnership between Sopra Steria and the Department of Health. We provide crucial corporate back-office services to NHS organisations.

We are market leaders in corporate service delivery with around 40% of the NHS using one or more of our products. With unrivalled knowledge and experience, we provide high-quality, value-for-money finance, procurement, and employment services to the NHS, helping them overcome any challenges they face in the back office.

We work closely with NHS organisations all over the country to replace outdated, time-consuming, and error-prone processes, with affordable digital systems and more efficient ways of working, and in addition to our core services, we are designing and developing innovative digital technologies and piloting brand-new ways of working, which further improve efficiency and quality, and better support the NHS workforce to deliver world-class patient care.

We are passionate about using our expertise to save the NHS time and money and are more relevant today than ever before.

Our HR Consulting Team provides end to end transformation support to Human Resource Director's and Chief People Officer's in the NHS to optimize the value delivered by their Human Resource and Workforce services to improve their contribution to the overall performance of their organization.

As a HR Capability Consultant you will be part of complex and large-scale projects including Payroll, to deliver enhanced value to customers. Supporting with tailoring recommendations to suit client needs, facilitating decision making through collaborative approaches, and encouraging expertise in specific markets or Consulting area.
Sopra Steria and NHS SBS have won a "Great Place to Work" award two years running, as well as one of the best places to work for Women in the UK, and our focus is to support your wellbeing, which includes your work life balance, we are also committed to supporting you with whatever training you need to thrive in your role.

This role is hybrid variable working, you will only be required in the office a few days a month for key meetings. Your contractual location can be at any of our offices based in - London, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol, the remaining days can be working from home or at your contractual office.

What you'll be doing:

In this role you will support customer relationships, expanding networks, fostering loyalty, and actively contributing to the growth of the Consulting business. You will be responsible and take ownership for specific work-streams (and their outcomes) as part of a consulting team or for the overall management of small projects and their deliverables. To identify and develop consulting opportunities and new projects.

We are a diverse team which creates solutions that work for our diverse society. We know this means some team members will not tick all the boxes. We focus on outcomes and the ability to get the results we're looking for, over ticking every box.

Your core responsibilities will be:

• Manage the successful delivery of a work-stream or small consulting project in order to achieve revenue targets and high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Combine fresh thinking and insight to identify additional consulting opportunities and shape innovative business propositions for new and existing clients.
• Work with clients to capture and shape consulting opportunities, helping them re-imagine the future and stay ahead of the curve.
• Run and support bid opportunities for small-scale projects that demonstrate Sopra Steria's distinctive and sustainable consulting business and secure additional revenue and/or new clients.
• Be an advocate of Sopra Steria Consulting through participation in industry forums, events and social media.
• Live the consulting-led culture by embracing innovative, highly disruptive technologies that support new ways of working in a digital world.
• Contribute to the wider Consulting Community through sharing personal knowledge and experience.

What you will bring:

• You will have Business Consulting experience within a HR transformation environment, which will include Payroll.
• Experience of working with the Public Sector.
• Experience working on diverse consulting projects and deliver impactful result.
• A history of adapting to different industries, client cultures, and project scopes, showcasing versatility and flexibility.
• Demonstrates awareness of commercial opportunities.
• A strong ability to build and maintain client relationships, acting as a trusted advisor and understanding their unique needs.

It would be great if you had:

• A professional consulting accreditation.

If you are interested in this role but not sure if your skills and experience are exactly what we're looking for, please do apply, we'd love to hear from you

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent
Location: Hybrid Variable - contracted to any one of these locations - London, Manchester, Leeds or Bristol.
Recruiter: Emma W

Salary: Up to £50,000

Benefits: 25 days annual leave with the choice to buy additional days, health cash plan, life assurance, pension, and generous flexible benefits fund

Although this role is advertised as full-time, we believe that flexibility at work can promote work/life balance, increase your motivation, reduce stress and improves performance and productivity. We support different ways of working and can offer a range of flexible working arrangements. So, if you're interested and need to work flexibly, we encourage you to apply and talk to us about what might be possible.

Loved reading about this job and want to know more about us?

NHS Shared Business Services (NHS SBS) was created by the Department of Health and Social Care to deliver corporate services to the NHS. A unique joint venture with Sopra Steria, a European leader in digital services and software development, we make life easier for NHS employees, patients, and suppliers, and deliver value for money to the taxpayer. Proud members of the NHS family, we provide finance & accounting, digital, procurement and workforce services to more than half the NHS in England, and our solutions are underpinned by cutting-edge technologies and our teams' expertise, in-depth understanding of the NHS, and commitment to service excellence.
We share common values and unity of purpose with the rest of the NHS family, are committed to being a force for good, and are dedicated and empowered to act responsibly and sustainably at organisational, team and individual level.
Would you like to join us on our journey?

We embrace difference as a source of creativity, innovation and competitive advantage and are striving to become a more diverse organisation. We welcome applications from people with a diverse variety of backgrounds and identities. We are committed to equality of opportunity for all and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation or marital status. We have partnered with Vercida , the UK's largest diversity and inclusion focused careers site, where all our vacancies are available in an accessible format.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, to enable you to perform to the best of your ability, please let us know when completing your application. We participate in the Disability Confident scheme and are committed to offering an interview to any candidate with a disability, who meets the minimum criteria for the role. If you believe this could apply to you, please let us know when completing your application.

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