Senior Consultant, Organization, People & Change

West Monroe•Chicago, IL

8h•Hybrid

About The Position

West Monroe is seeking a Senior Consultant with current consulting experience to join our Organization, People, and Change (OPC) practice. West Monroe’s Organization, People, and Change practice accelerates value and business outcomes of transformations, transactions and implementations – through people, HR, and change strategies. For this opening, we are looking for someone with a proven track record supporting and leading client engagements across our offerings, and each consultant within our OPC practice drives value across our capabilities: Change Strategy & Execution, Organization Design & Workforce Strategy, OPC Transactions, and HR Transformation.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
3-5 years of relevant HR and/or change management experience; consulting, client servicing and/or advisory experience strongly preferred.
Previous experience managing multiple workstreams as a member or leader on functional HR or change management projects (e.g. org design, change strategy and execution, HR M&A, HR technology selection and implementation, etc.).
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills including the ability to create impactful and concise executive stakeholder-ready deliverables, and polished client-facing oral communication skills.
Strong data visualization and analysis skills; comfortable using tools like Excel to analyze data and present key insights in a compelling way.
Highly proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Word).
Demonstrated success within one or more of West Monroe’s core industries including Consumer & Industrial Products, Healthcare (payer/provider), Life Sciences, High Tech & Software, Utilities, Insurance, Banking, and/or Private Equity.
A commitment to inclusion and diversity, and openness to new ideas and perspectives.
Ability to travel up to 50%.

Responsibilities

Serve on client delivery teams as a program manager; structure and manage your own work and the work of others within a workstream according to project workplan and Statement of Work (SOW); support functional workstream planning and execution by collaborating with team members and client functional leads.
Structure and lead deliverables via thorough and effective data gathering, generate sound hypotheses, and deliver high-quality analyses.
Exhibit market knowledge and operational familiarity in at least two OPC offerings and one of West Monroe’s core industries.
Build practice area capabilities, identify and scope practice development initiatives, lead onboarding activities, and lead training delivered to the practice.
Regularly seek out farming opportunities and engage project managers and practice leadership to evaluate and pursue in support of business development goals.
Engage in account management process including supporting account planning, developing and maintaining relationships with client peers, invoicing, resource allocations, and project financial management.
Actively participate in proposal development by synthesizing client asks and issues while mapping West Monroe methodologies and reviewing client materials to determine appropriate scope as well as potential areas out-of-scope.
Contribute to thought leadership development aligned to specific engagement (blogs, articles, white papers).
Assist team members in integrating effectively onto the team, providing instruction, assistance, and coaching on methodologies and work approached.
Model and mentor more junior-level consultants day-to-day in personifying West Monroe values with clients, on project teams, and within individual relationships.
May serve as a Career Advisor to an intern or more junior-level consultant.
Support recruiting, interviewing, and selecting campus and experienced new hire consultants.