HR Consulting Leader/People & Change Director - PWC

PwC Kenya helps organizations and individuals create the value they’re looking for. We’re a member of the PwC network of firms with 169,000 people in more than 158 countries. We’re committed to delivering for both territory and global quality in assurance, tax and advisory services. We are seeking to recruit great talent to fill the position of HR Consulting Leader/People & Change Director in our Advisory business.
Overall responsibilities

• Provide leadership of in-country HR Consulting business
• Undiluted business development focus
• Focus on leading the business, growing the business dynamically
• Expanding the depth and breadth of offering

Main responsibilities

• Undiluted focus on business development and strategic engagements with clients
• Secures business growth through well established and new network contacts by developing the sales pipeline for the business
• Leads and manages the engagements, at the same time focuses on selling phase-2 work  for existing engagement
• Delegates technical implementation to delivery while leading the team and is responsible for the business outcomes
• Creates annuity relationships on-site with strategic client leadership and executives
• Responsible for overall effective business management of the business

Who we are looking for:

• You must be savvy, entrepreneurial and business minded. You should be able to lead a holistic business not only be the subject matter expert. You will also need to be strategic in your approach to business
• You must be connected to a valuable external network which leverages additional value to the firm and our clients
• You will need to be outwardly and market focused as well as be results driven and be held accountable for results
• You must be driven to succeed with intense personal momentum that is required to win the race for market share
• You must be key talent and able to define your own professional life on how you are winning in the market
• You must have an appetite for risk and take calculated risks to out-compete other players in the market.
• You will be a natural people leader with flair for leading teams and building relationships and creating high performance teams for team engagement. You must also be a team player.  This is an essential ingredient to succeed in a connected world within PwC.
• You will have relationship building capabilities thriving on building new relationships, whether internally or externally with clients and alliances
• You  must be passionate, smart and a fun leader who empowers and above all inspires your team to be the best and nothing, absolutely nothing else. 

Technical requirements

• A minimum of a Bachelors Degree in a relevant field; A Masters degree in a relevant filed is preferred
• A postgraduate qualification in Human Resource Management and/or Organisation Development or its equivalent is desirable;
• At least 7-12 years of HR Consulting experience in a professional services environment and at senior management level or 8-10 years hands-on HR Generalist experience at senior level and at least 2 years experience in HR Consulting environment

Please apply online. Closing date: 30 June 2012