[ref. b00327821] Principal Consultant (People Analytics / Strategic Workforce Planning)

A great opportunity for an engaging Principal Consultant with strong analytical skills to play a leading role in the growth our data & analytics capability.

About Q5

Q5 is a global organisation transformation consultancy that brings the Art & Science of Organisation Health to help our clients build better businesses worldwide. Since we were founded in 2009, we have had the privilege to partner with some of the world’s leading businesses, providing them with expert analysis, creating dramatic new strategies, overhauling struggling operations, and making sure the right people, are in the right place, doing the right things for the business to thrive.

What sets us apart though is not just what we do but how we do it. We take a partnership approach to our engagements, helping clients to come together and create tailored and comprehensive solutions that work for their business and context. Our working style is highly collaborative, which in practice means we enable their leaders with a structured approach and transformational expertise so that they can define, design, and deploy their vision.

Analytics Hub

We have recently established an ‘Analytics Hub’ that provides specialist analytics capability in support of our consulting projects. It is an incredibly exciting time for the business, with the team growing rapidly and working across a wide spread of client challenges including:

• Financial analysis and scenario modelling to support strategic reorientation
• Analysis in support of operating model redesign
• Business transformation to reduce operating costs
• Modelling future state workforce needs
• Designing strategic management dashboards
• Culture diagnostics drawing together people and survey data

About the Role

To be successful in the role you will need to bring together solid quantitative skills, general consulting capabilities, and a collaborative, down-to-earth style.

• Lead the day-to-day execution of people analytics and SWP projects, including management of small consulting teams
• Conduct analyses and develop high quality reports, create insightful recommendations that lead to enhanced business outcomes
• Advise clients and project teams with SME input
• Support the development of new approaches/analytics tools
• Support Business Development with proposals and materials

• 7+ years relevant professional experience
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and hit the ground running in new contexts
• Experience in strategic workforce planning and workforce modelling in large complex organisations
• Understanding of the end-to-end employee lifecycles and ability to advise clients on the levers to pull to get better operational and commercial outcomes
• Experience working with large, complex people data and ability to connect with external data sources
• Good overall understanding of strategy, operating model design, business operations and people analytics
• Excellent communication skills and facilitation skills with the ability to explain complex results or concepts to non-data audiences
• Advanced analytics and quantitative skills to solve business problems (e.g. statistical analysis, predictive modelling, data visualisation)
• Advanced problem-solving and critical thinking skills with experience in producing high-quality, insightful outputs
• Entrepreneurial mindset to help grow Q5’s analytics practice
• Qualifications and experience in a relevant discipline

Benefits

• Performance Related Bonus
• Contributory Pension Plan
• Life Assurance and Income Protection
• New Starter Loan

• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Access to Digital GP and Wellbeing Apps
• Internal Wellbeing Programme

• Electric Car and Cycle to Work Schemes
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Subsidised eye tests and support with the cost prescribed glasses for DSE use