Ernst & Young

People Consulting - Change Management - Senior Consultant

About us

Our People Consulting professionals assist our clients in successfully defining, implementing and sustaining their people agenda. We provide our clients with a set of integrated services and offerings solving their most pertinent people-related business issues. Core service offerings include:

Organisation and Workforce Transformation

• Our integrated approach to align business and workforce strategies with current and future operating models by applying capabilities such as scenario modelling, organisation design, workforce planning and analytics as well as talent strategy.

HR Transformation

• Re-imagining and digitizing the HR function, including HR strategy, HR service delivery model, HR cloud technology as well as transforming employee policies and rewards to align with business and individual objectives

People Experience

• Enhancing employee engagement, productivity, and well-being through flexible, future-optimized organizational solutions and new ways of working

Change Experience

• Delivers value by combining organizational and behavioural insights together with a focus on the individual to help organizations navigate complex change and realize their transformation ambitions.

Driven by our deep understanding of HR strategy and operations, and our focus on innovation, People Consulting is best positioned to respond to the scale and complexity of the challenges our clients face, making us the trusted advisor of choice to our clients and creating more opportunities for our people. 

The Opportunity

Joining the People Consulting team in EY will provide you with the opportunity to work on some of the most interesting and complex transformation programmes in Ireland. Our team, in partnership with our clients, seek to ensure the long-term sustainability and embedding of major organisational transformation programmes.

Our work is varied and challenging; from creating an organisation design that determines effective organisation solutions to embedding cultural and behavioural change across an organisation.

To deliver value-driven results to our clients, we have an experienced team of consultants who specialise in:

• Organisation Design
• Change Management
• Strategic Workforce Planning
• Learning and Leadership Development
• Communications and Engagement
• HR Transformation
• Digital HR
• Culture and Behavioural Change
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Who are we looking for?

We are looking for experienced candidates with demonstrable experience across the public and private sector in delivering change management. We have a number of exciting, client facing roles for individuals with demonstrable experience delivering change programmes.

Your key responsibilities: 

• You will be responsible for supporting engagements across private and public sector clients. You will use a consultative approach to partner closely with clients.
• You will support the implementation and delivery of projects and/ or workstreams across transformation programmes including technology projects, organisation design programmes and other change programmes.
• You will provide support in all areas of organisational design; change management, culture, leadership/team effectiveness and support for other strategic initiatives.
• You will plan and co-ordinate all elements of programmes from conception to completion, supporting the delivery of the programmes either in person or virtually
• You will provide support for all aspects of programme planning while ensuring they are both effective and cost-efficient.
• You will support delivery on projects and/ or workstreams, primarily on change and transformation projects to support the delivery of client requirements but may include other core service offerings.
• You will work as part of a delivery teams while supporting and owning deliverables.
• You will be responsible for working with management to implement project plans

Skills and attributes for success: 

• Have experience using relevant change tools, templates and methodologies
• Have an passion for change and innovation
• Be professional, quickly establishing personal credibility and demonstrating expertise.
• Have strong personal impact and resilience and be able to influence clients and stakeholders to gain support for major changes and key decisions.
• Be pragmatic - taking a practical approach to solving issues and gaining client agreement
• Be able to analyse complex problems and to deliver insightful, practical and sustainable solutions
• Be focused on achieving project / programme goals and objectives
• Be adept at overcoming issues and barriers
• Be experienced of full project lifecycle from concept through to implementation

To qualify for the role, you must have:

• Degree qualified and have relevant professional experience; experience working on major transformation programmes is preferred.
• 2+ years relevant experience
• A good understanding of change and transformation projects, with relevant experience in delivering change programmes in organisations
• Ability to quickly grasp complex business problems and develop appropriate solutions
• Experience working in a change management role or delivering change programmes is required

What we look for 

We are looking for individuals who can demonstrate real impact within various areas of People Consulting for our clients. We require people who can build our service offerings, understand client needs, grow our internal capability and connect effectively across our global People Consulting practice to maximise our global knowledge and experience in supporting clients to build their talent pool. 

Who we are

EY is committed to being an inclusive employer and we are happy to consider flexible working arrangements. We strive to achieve the right balance for our people, enabling us to deliver excellent client service whilst allowing you to build your career without sacrificing your personal priorities. While our client-facing professionals can be required to travel regularly, and at times be based at client sites, our flexible working arrangements can help you to achieve a lifestyle balance.