Senior Consultant, Organization & People

West Monroe’s growing Organization & People practice is in search of a Senior Consultant to join our fast-paced and dynamic team. Senior Consultants at West Monroe bring 3-5 years of relevant HR expertise to play a critical role in client delivery, ranging from short strategic engagements to large transformational programs, and practice development.

Our offerings include: 

• HR Solutions: Transform the HR function through people, process, and technology redesign, increasing the value HR services deliver by building an integrated employee experience, reinventing HR processes, and deploying HR technology strategically to drive the people strategy and create business value.

• Transactions: Manage all aspects of the HR deal process and advise on M&A value-drivers related to people, process, technology, organization, culture, and HR functional considerations in addition to advising on commercial diligence for HR-focused target companies.

• Transformation: Drive quantifiable business results using digital solutions, analytics, and benchmarks to optimize enterprise and functional organizational structure, culture, and talent.

What you’ll do:

• Serve on client delivery teams as a program manager; structure and manage your own work and the work of others within a workstream according to project workplan and Statement of Work (SOW); support functional workstream planning and execution by collaborating with team members and client functional leads.
• Structure and lead deliverables via thorough and effective data gathering, generate sound hypotheses, and deliver high-quality analyses.
• Exhibit market knowledge and operational familiarity in at least one offering and one of West Monroe’s core industries.
• Build practice area capabilities, identify and scope practice development initiatives, lead onboarding activities, and lead training delivered to the practice.
• Regularly seek out farming opportunities and engage project managers and practice leadership to evaluate and pursue in support of business development goals.
• Engage in account management process including supporting account planning, developing and maintaining relationships with client peers, invoicing, resource allocations, and project financial management.
• Actively participate in proposal development by synthesizing client asks and issues while mapping West Monroe methodologies and reviewing client materials to determine appropriate scope as well as potential areas out-of-scope.
• Contribute to thought leadership development aligned to specific engagement (blogs, articles, white papers).
• Assist team members in integrating effectively onto the team, providing instruction, assistance, and coaching on methodologies and work approached.
• Model and mentor more junior-level consultants day-to-day in personifying West Monroe values with clients, on project teams, and within individual relationships.
• May serve as a Career Advisor to an intern or more junior-level consultant.
• Support recruiting, interviewing, and selecting campus and experienced new hire consultants.

What you’ll bring:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• 3-5 years of relevant HR experience in a client servicing and/or advisory role
• Previous experience managing multiple workstreams as a member on functional HR projects.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create impactful and concise executive stakeholder-ready deliverables, and polished client-facing oral communication skills.
• Strong data visualization and analysis skills; comfortable using tools like Excel to analyze data and present key insights in a compelling way.
• Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
• Experience within one or more of West Monroe’s core industries including Consumer & Industrial Products, Energy & Utilities, Financial Services, Healthcare & Life Sciences, High Tech & Software, and/or Private Equity.
• A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
• Ability to travel up to 50%.

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