Senior Principal, Organizational Strategy and Architecture (Finance)

About Us

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

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Job description

THE ROLE

The firm seeks to hire a Sr. Principal Consultant to join Organizational Strategy in North America. Our specific expertise need is in organizational design and job architecture. We're looking for people who understand work - at the job level and as jobs come together into work teams and organizational structures. Ideally you will have formal experience in work measurement, job levelling, job family modelling, and in organization design.

The Sr. Principal 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.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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 ourclientsbusiness.

• 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 matterexpert 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 andproject-baseddevelopment/coaching.

• Has a deep understanding of solutions, product offerings, our Korn Ferry (KF)Advisorypoint-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 KFAdvisory, 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 incontributing best in class work products and tools to KF knowledge bases.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE/ QUALIFICATIONS/ SKILLS

• 10+ years of work experience in Strategy & Operations/Transformation practice of a management consultancy OR HR Operations/M&A Integration /Organizational Development/Organizational Design

• Track record of helping clients to develop and implement transformation roadmaps with a strong emphasis on the leadership, organization, people, and cultural changes required to improve performance

• Skilled in several of the following areas:

• Organization design

• Organization effectiveness analytics and diagnosis

• Job evaluation and work measurement methodologies

• Job family modeling

• Career pathing and career mobility

• People strategy development and implementation

• Diversity and inclusion analytics, diagnosis and strategy

• Rewards and Benefits

• Strong client management and selling capabilities; track record of growing relationships with current clients and contributing to acquisition of new clients

• 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 (pivot tables, Vlookups, Macros); 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

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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.

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Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

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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