Organisation & Change

Tuesday, 13 May 2008

Opening for a Leadership Role - Organisation & Change

Hi All,

Hope this mail finds you in good spirits. We have a Leadership opportunity with one of our consulting clients in Organisation and Change in Hyderabad.

Please find enclosed the detail job description for this particular requirement:

The Human Capital practice of our client delivers a unique 360 degree view of HR to address all the people touch points within an organization— from leadership and employees to customers and vendors. Ultimately, it is our mission to enhance an organization’ s value through people and with a focus on both HR as a function and HR and people issues in business operations.

The Human Capital practice of our clients seeking broad-based business consultants who specialize in integrating people issues with business strategy. If you have a passion for tackling complex, far-reaching, people-related business problems, joining our practice will give you a challenging environment in which to apply and grow your skills in the following area:

Organization and Change

Focus on delivering solutions to address strategic change, workforce and talent strategies, learning and development, technology and regulatory adoption, and organizational strategies.

Job Specifications:

Successful candidates will possess the following characteristics:

• MBA from Reputed B-Schools / Masters and/or Doctorate (PhD) in Economics, Mass Communication, Research Methods, Statistics, Human Resources, Business Administration, International Relation

• At least 6 years of experience as an established qualitative researcher

• Extensive experience with qualitative and quantitative research on HR, Human Capital, Talent, economics, labor, development economics, econometrics or trend regression analysis.

• High quality research as evidenced by peer-reviewed publications, a history of independent research undertaken in a public, private or corporate sector environment, and successful grant and contract support

• Experience as principal or lead writer / author of publications

• Ideally a published author

• Excellent qualitative analysis skills and presentation abilities

• Strong management and supervisory skills

• Strong coaching skills (trained younger researchers / analysts)

• History of multi-disciplinary collaboration with diverse disciplines (with other researchers or clients)

• Experience with Atlas.ti or other qualitative analysis software.

• Possess an MBA, masters or doctorate in economics, statistics, HR, business policies, government policy, development economics, social or behavioral sciences

• Possess strong network in the education and research industries

Job Purpose:

Talent Strategies – helping companies identify, recruit, develop and retain the right performers – is one of the most important growth areas within our clients Organization and Change Practice Consulting Practice.

To support our clients work on Talent Strategies, the Hyderabad location has formed a Talent Center of Excellence (CoE) that will serve as a global resource providing research and analysis on talent issues: macro-economic trends in the labor market and current thinking about talent issues.

This role is for a person to lead the Talent CoE, working with consulting leaders around the world to grow consulting involvement in addressing clients’ talent and human capital. As leader of the Talent CoE, you will help set its agenda of research and analysis as well as identifying its staff. You will conduct fact-based research, by gathering, organizing and synthesizing information to develop key insights around macro-level labor statistical trends and monitoring a variety of publications and forums to capture the most current thinking on talent issues. This work will be applied at leading clients around the world.

You will play a key role in delivery of client engagements in the Talent Strategies & Solutions area, with work being done both remotely from India and on client sites when appropriate.

Typical roles you would be expected to play would include:

• Steer and guide the research objectives of the Talent CoE

• Research and provide macro-level demographic trends both globally and regionally

• Provide real time updates of talent research and points of view both globally and regionally posted in external press

• Develop presentations and point of views to present the research work of the Talent CoE

• Play the role of a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for relevant internal and external client engagements

• Establish a working group with the Advanced Quantitative Solutions (AQS) Group within the organization and to develop a joint offering based on Talent COE research and their predictive modeling capabilities

• Assist client executives in identifying and fulfilling their talent-related information and research needs, develop and recommend talent management solutions in both micro trends (e.g., workforce strategies, competency modeling, succession planning, skills assessment, and performance management; develop learning and development programs, leadership development, etc.) and macro trends (e.g., labor markets, unemployment, education, population, education, health etc.).

In the medium to long term, this role will position you for management roles in our India operations.

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Lead and develop the Talent CoE in coordination with leadership in the talent area around the globe

• With leadership's involvement, define the research and analysis focus of the Talent CoE

• Develop and evaluate the strategy of the Talent CoE

• Craft and manage the project delivery plan of the Talent CoE

• Participate in client projects that include work provided by the Talent CoE

• Develop points-of-view on what information our client should acquire on talent. Lead a team to synthesize information and draw implications/ analysis (See comment below, this should probably be a separate bullet)

• Understanding of Industry workforce and talent issues

• Manage communication/ relationship with clients

• Be the face / point person / Subject Matter Expert that pitch the Talent CoE to internal and external clients

• Manage and develop Talent CoE consultants' research and consulting skills
  i) How to develop hypothesis and develop research questions
  ii) Training in research approach, methods and methodologies
  iii) Logical structuring
  iv) Trend analysis
  v) Data presentation (written and verbal)

• Lead project based knowledge management initiatives

Please share your profile with us at alexander@pylonmc. com and you can contact us at 9900402500/080 – 40221642.

Regards,

Alexander