Job Description

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

Job description

The Role

Our Work & Career Architecture practice helps clients design, analyze, and measure work to optimize jobs and get the right people in the right roles, improving organizational effectiveness. We bring the insight we gain through work measurement to help clients understand, calibrate, and organize work -- creating linkages to talent that help people work differently.

The work is organized in four different parts:

• Unders\xe2\x80\x8b\xe2\x80\x8b\xe2\x80\x8btanding & de\xe2\x80\x8b\xe2\x80\x8bsigning work: We understand what existing, new and emerging work needs to get done, in different ways
• Measuring & leveling work: We measure and organize work into pay levels to support pay equity and pay cost optimization
• \xe2\x80\x8bDesigning job architecture\xe2\x80\x8b: We design frameworks that organize jobs into custom levels and families so clients can see work across the organization and build datasets for HRIS system implementation
• Connecting work and talent: We connect work and talent through career pathing solutions

We capitalize on our work class intellectual property to bring high-impact differentiating solutions that help clients make sense of work and the talent they need to get it done.

Our Senior Consultants work on project teams with more seasoned practitioners and sales colleagues to deliver custom solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. Individuals at this level exercise judgment in understanding client issues and customizing solutions to fit. They have developed a level of presence and maturity that means they take the lead on defined aspects of a project or business development activity.

Senior Consultants are expected to be autonomous in working up and proposing a solution or project plan internally and then implementing it once it has been signed off. Business development is still not a major accountability but there is an expectation that role holders will identify opportunities to extend or enhance a project and lead in those discussions.

Primary Responsibilities

• Deliver high quality work that meets expectations for timeliness, accuracy and completeness.
• Manage large projects or a significant work-stream of a more complex programme and/or support relationship development as part of an account. Typical projects are of several months duration. Estimates complete resource planning for projects, recognizing when additional resources and/or expertise is needed and managing their involvement in the project (e.g., project onboarding and briefing).
• Support the design or development of solutions for our clients by working as part of a client or opportunity team and leveraging the insights gained through research and analytics.
• May be the lead consultant/account manager for smaller clients and manage client expectations and satisfaction. May interact with executives of the client in the context of projects. Support senior colleagues on larger, more complex projects potentially leading some client facing aspects of the project in an area of expertise.
• Where time permits, contribute to winning profitable business by conducting background research, proposal writing, shaping opportunities, pitch preparation and opportunity spotting in clients.
• Participate in client planning. Lead parts of sales calls/presentations in own expertise area(s) and lead related proposal writing.
• Work with and coordinate activities with colleagues across teams. Manage peers and more junior resources on projects. Provide guidance and coaching to more junior colleagues.
• Continue to develop a strong internal brand with a network of Korn Ferry Advisory colleagues to receive guidance, leverage resources, identify additional sources of project work, etc. Begin to broaden network across the KF enterprise.
• Proactively developing internal relationships outside of team/office including other knowledge experts.
• Capable of identifying opportunities for other Korn Ferry Advisory practices and provide a high level descriptions of these services to clients.

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE, & OTHER QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years\' experience at consulting/professional services (alternatively in a corporate HR department) with a focus on job evaluation and job/career architecture.
• Has established credentials in own \'major\' discipline and is able to operate independently to make custom adjustments to relatively standard offerings to meet client needs. Is able to lead core service line work activities. Maintain knowledge and expertise of an industry, current and future trends and challenges.
• Developed expertise (depth and breadth) and consulting skills i.e., client relationships, commercial impact and business insights.
• Bachelor\'s degree, required, Masters\' degree preferred.

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.

Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative

Action Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/ Veteran.

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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