Director - People & Organization

Role Purpose :

The incumbent of this role is a key face of the P&O practice in the market. The focus of the role is to establish P&O as a partner of choice for clients though effective solutioning and high impact business delivery.

Experience and Exposure :

- 12+ years of professional experience in a mix of consulting and corporate roles

- End-to-end human capital subject knowledge with deep knowledge and experience in 1-2 specific areas ... hands-on knowledge of the HR Technology

- Deep knowledge of 2-3 industry verticals [ref's of 3 CHROs]

- Strong academic credentials

- Strong learning intelligence

Key Responsibilities:

- Business Development - Mapping the market and independently/jointly identifying and leading pursuits across industry verticals and offerings in line with the strategic priorities of the practice. Supporting the key account strategy for the practice. Representing the P&O point of view in internal [cross-functional, multi-disciplinary] forums.

- Contributing to solution definition by weaving together the client's perspective with expertise and creating/communicating a compelling value proposition for clients.

- Ensuring adherence to commercial, independence and risk guidelines.

- Business Delivery - Having end-to-end ownership of client projects from strategic planning, project/program management, resource management to ensuring the quality of deliverables/impact. Ensuring adherence to risk, quality and delivery excellence guidelines. Managing cross-functional projects with resources from multiple geographies, practices. Ensuring adherence to key projects in a project context e.g. knowledge management, capability building, etc.

- Thought Leadership - Partnering with the larger team to author/curate/contribute in developing the research base of the practice. Work with member firms globally to understand the capability repertoire and look at how to position that in the Indian context more effectively.

- Team Management - Leading a team of consultants / senior consultants in project contexts as well as a people manager. Providing feedback and helping them develop by balancing their aspirations with firm/practice expectations.

Key Interfaces

- Internal

o Cross-functional, cross-business teams for business development and delivery

o Centres of excellence globally and in India

o Management Consulting vertical

o Overall Advisory / India Firm ecosystem

o Risk, Quality and Compliance teams

- External

o All project stakeholders in client situations (from a business development or a business delivery perspective)

o Thoughts leaders and subject matter experts in the external ecosystem

o Network of associates working with the practice

Indicative Time Split

- Business Development, Thought

Leadership - 40%

- Business Delivery - 40%

- Team Management - 20%