LoS HC Leader, Senior Manager

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Job description

About the Role

As a result of our growing business we're looking for a Senior Manager to join our Human Capital team. This is a key role within our HC function where you will report directly to the Line of Service HC (Human Capital) Leader.

As a Senior Manager you play a key role in helping lead our function through coaching and developing HC Managers and aligning the local people strategy with the firm's overall vision and commercial direction.

Not only will you get the opportunity to drive strategy locally, you will work in close partnership with the Centres of Excellence (CoE) such as Reward and Learning & Development, HC Operations Management Team and our Employee Relations team, utilising appropriate HR knowledge and strategies to draw on the skills and resources required to support Business Unit decision making.

As a Senior Manager within our team, your role will involve:

• Line management of HC Managers, providing guidance, coaching and feedback and support as they roll out people initiatives, deliver on cyclical activity and supporting business as usual
• Being a trusted business advisor to key stakeholders to provide expert advice and coaching on complex and more senior people issues and initiatives, and ensuring the people strategy is implemented across business units
• Monitoring external people management trends and best practice in support of providing positive disruption in the Business
• Providing business driven people insights to support decision making and determine appropriate interventions at the Business Team level
• Being a champion for our own team effectiveness, promoting the expected values & behaviours and leadership
• Working with Business leadership teams to ensure partners and directors are capable of managing high performing, engaged teams and are taking full advantage of available development support
• Leading strategic talent management activity for the Director population and coaching senior stakeholders
• Identifying learning priorities from Talent Reviews and sharing these with Learning & Development (L&D), enabling them to recommend appropriate interventions and, where appropriate, develop training courses
• Working with Reward to deliver integrated reward / recognition solutions to the business teams. Linking in with the LoS HC Leader to ensure the LoS reward strategy is informed.
• Ensuring that diversity and inclusion is a foundation of the Business Team people priority plan and is integrated into all people management activity
• Supporting in individual pre-emptive action where ER risks arise in senior leadership roles

Essential Skills and Experience

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• Commercial skills with the ability to turn these into proactive people strategies to drive the business
• Relationship building and stakeholder management at a senior level
• Project management and the ability to manage multiple demands and timelines
• Change management capabilities
• Team leadership with delegation and coaching skills
• Data analytics skills with the ability to use data to provide insights to the business to drive and steer business decisions, this should include experience of data analytics tools and platforms
• A sense of curiosity and desire to innovate
• Strong communication skills
• Proactive approach to business and comfortable working both autonomously and in a team;
• Ability to professionally handle sensitive and confidential information;
• Ability to coach senior individuals and influence as appropriate to ensure successful results;
• Willing and able to be a driver of technology within the firm;
• Able to develop mutually supportive relationships within the HC community and utilise the experience available.

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The skills we look for in future employees
All our people need to demonstrate the skills and behaviours that support us in delivering our business strategy. This is important to the work we do for our business, and our clients. These skills and behaviours make up our global leadership framework, 'The PwC Professional' and are made up of five core attributes; whole leadership, technical capabilities, business acumen, global acumen and relationships.

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The Deal
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Diversity
Valuing Difference. Driving Inclusion.

We work in a changing world which offers great opportunities for people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. We seek to attract and employ the best people from the widest talent pool because creating value through diversity is what makes us strong as a business, enabling us to solve important problems and deliver value to our clients. We encourage an inclusive culture where people can be themselves, are valued for their strengths and are empowered to be the best they can be. As an organisation with an increasingly agile workforce, we also support different ways of working offering flexible working arrangements. Learn more here about our work to support an inclusive culture.