Principal/Sr. Principal - Organizational Design - Remote - North America
Job description
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Korn Ferry is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.
Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than 50 countries. We offer five core solutions:
- Organizational Strategy
- Assessment and Succession
- Talent Acquisition
- Leadership Development
- Total Rewards
The Role
As organizational strategy is a key focus in Korn Ferry’s growth plans, we are individuals with experience and interest in helping executives drive transformational change and business performance by aligning their organization with their business strategy. More specifically, we are individuals with experience and knowledge in the following areas:
- Board and Top Team performance
- Operating model and organizational design
- Strategic workforce planning
- Cultural transformation, including DEI strategy
- People strategy
- HR effectiveness
- Employee value proposition
- Work/career architecture
- Change management
This role is specifically focused on organizational design, operating model and workforce measurement projects. Specifically, you will shape the way organizations are structured and run, including team formations, shift patterns, lines of reporting, decision-making procedures, communication channels, impact of digitization and outsourcing, job levelling, work measurement, job family modeling, and related work.
As a Principal/Sr. Principal you will work closely with colleagues to deliver complex, customized and multi work-stream solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. Principal level consultants lead client relationships and/or projects of considerable complexity, offer seasoned expertise, and translate their understanding of clients’ business challenges into business development opportunities. Individuals take the lead on some business development and also partner with other colleagues, especially on larger, multi-stream opportunities.
Korn Ferry differentiates itself in the market in our ability to offer truly integrated end to end talent solutions, therefore we work very closely with our colleagues in other solution areas as we partner with clients. In particular, Korn Ferry’s integrated transformation solutions in Workforce Transformation, Diversity & Inclusion, Cost Optimization and Revenue Growth are tightly connected to our Organizational Strategy teams.
Primary Responsibilities
- Develop profitable business through effective client relationship building, account management and collaborative working with colleagues across the KF enterprise. Manage and expand relationships, including beyond technical buyers to business leaders, to increase opportunities and further impact clients’ business success.
- Develop hypotheses about client business issues based on sound analysis plus client, sector and industry know how. Leverage insights to define, recommend and /or co-create strategic innovative solutions for clients.
- Lead the delivery of complex projects ensuring client satisfaction, effective project management, good communication and collaboration between KF colleagues. Ensure constant focus on outcomes by advancing the team’s success and capabilities through sophisticated relationship management, influence, coaching, problem solving and diplomacy skills.
- Manage client expectations and ensure project members are sufficiently enabled to meet client expectations. Assess and measure the impact of our work on our clients business.
- Support relationship development with large key clients as part of an account team. Act as relationship manager for large and complex clients including those with international points of contact and needs.
- Lead proposal writing and shaping of opportunities for complex/medium sized clients. View business issues from multiple expertise angles and leverage KF’s deep expertise to offer solutions that integrate across the business. May take the lead as subject matter expert working with relationship managers / sales leaders to shape significant commercial proposals that meet client needs.
- Deliver high quality work as an expertise lead that meets or exceeds client expectations.
- Lead and/or contribute to thought leadership and /or research, managing relationships with business and thought leaders in a defined expertise area and speaking on national (possibly international) platforms to enhance and extend the KF brand.
- Continue to deepen and broaden own consulting skills, business understanding and expertise to enable an expanded viewpoint on the issues impacting our clients. Actively look for opportunities to support the development of colleagues through mentoring, timely feedback and project-based development/coaching.
- Has a deep understanding of solutions, product offerings, our Korn Ferry (KF) Advisory point-of-view, frameworks, delivery tools and processes to design innovative solutions for clients. Is recognized as a national and often global resource/subject matter expert for KF Advisory, making significant contributions to practice development, leading the national and/or global deployment of new, commercially viable products and services, in the service of global initiatives.
- Lead in the QA/Peer review process within an area of specialization. Lead in contributing best in class work products and tools to KF knowledge bases.
Requirements
- 10+ years’ overall experience helping clients develop and implement transformation roadmaps with a strong emphasis on the leadership, organization, people, and cultural changes required to improve performance
- 5+ years of experience specifically in organizational design/operating model/workforce architecture gained in a consulting (ideal) or corporate environment
- Track record of managing and growing complex client relationships
- Financial literacy, business acumen, and a profit conscious mindset with the ability to analyze market data, interpret P&L information, and translate that information into meaningful action plans.
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to work independently. Ability to proactively achieve goals and strategies under shifting conditions and with different tasks, job responsibilities, and people.
- Sector expertise preferable but not essential
- Fluency in PowerPoint and Excel; familiarity with data analytics/visualization tools such as Power BI, Alteryx and Tableau preferred.
- Ability to communicate ideas and recommendations to clients in a professional, clear, concise and engaging way
Education
- Bachelor’s degree required, Master’s degree preferred
The Korn Ferry Cares Wellbeing Platform offers Employees health benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Short Term Disability, Basic Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment), Critical Illness, Accident Injury, Hospital Indemnity, and Legal Insurance. Employees are eligible to enroll in Korn Ferry's Tax Deferred Savings plan 401(k). Employee Stock Purchase Program is available to all permanent employees who work 20 hours or more after 6 months of service.
Employees are eligible to receive a total of 15 days vacation annually plus paid time off for 16 company holidays. Full time eligible employees will accrue sick time commencing on the first date of employment at the rate of 3.33 hours per pay period for an annualized maximum of 80 hours.
Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry
If you currently work for Korn Ferry or one of our affiliates, you must be eligible to apply for a different position within Korn Ferry to use the Careers Site. If you accept such a position, your benefits programs and Human Resources policies may change. Please consult with your HR contact for the new position concerning application eligibility, including any immigration/visa needs, benefit programs, and HR policies applicable to that position.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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