Managing Consultant Full Time

Schroders Recruitment
We’re a global investment manager. We help institutions, intermediaries and individuals around the world invest money to meet their goals, fulfil their ambitions, and prepare for the future.

We have around 6,500 people on six continents. And we’ve been around for over 200 years, but keep adapting as society and technology changes. What doesn’t change is our commitment to helping our clients, and society, prosper.

The base

We moved into our new HQ in the City of London in 2018. We’re close to our clients, in the heart of the UK’s financial centre. And we have everything we need to work flexibly.

The team

Schroders’ Business Transformation Solutions (BTS) team is Schroders’ internal management consultancy function. The function provides Strategic Solutions to the entire Schroders Group, across a range of service lines such as strategy and business model design, target operating models, shaping & support for large-scale complex transformation, business architecture and people transformation.

What you’ll do

As a Management Consultant in the BTS Team:

Type of work:

As a management consultant you will be involved in a range of consultancy assignments and other activities which may include:
Strategy:

• Using strategy formation approaches to facilitate the definition of business strategies through working with relevant business stakeholders
• Development of vision statements and business models for discrete business areas
• Research initiated to address gaps in knowledge relating to a specific business issue.

• The creation of Target Operating Models (TOMs) for discrete business domains and functions, using standard Schroders methodology, which leverages our business architecture and operational excellence tool kits
• Business analysis to support capability design, process analysis and organisational transformation.

Change Management:

• Creation of business cases for initiatives under consideration, with the aim of concluding on the potential value add / cost-benefit analysis of embarking on that initiative. (Encompasses financial analysis, definition of business drivers, assessment of risks etc.)
• Shape, influence and play a leading role in complex strategic initiatives
• Shape, design oversight and advisory to the Steering Committee for projects / programmes of work with the aim of ensuring successful delivery and maintenance of strategic programme objectives
• Partnering with business and programme teams to clarify priorities, stakeholder management, design governance, and TOM implementation activities.
• Advisory on the Schroders’ Change portfolio, and creation of high-level plans / roadmaps to implement change.

Business Architecture:

• Leveraging Schroders business architecture to strategically align, accelerate and de-risk change to our operating model
• Developing our business architecture tools and methodologies, to ensure it continues to deliver value, mature and become further embedding across the change lifecycle.

Responsibilities of the role: As a Managing Consultant in the Business Transformation Solutions team you will be expected to:

• Lead the delivery of consulting assignments and/or assist with very large / complex assignments.
• Contribute to business development and prioritisation of the pipeline of potential change initiatives.
• Build positive relationships with GMC / GMC-1 level stakeholders within the organisation.
• Operate as a role model for the rest of the Business Consultancy team through leading by example.
• Influence the agenda for the team through leading service proposition design, thought leadership and the injection of innovative ideas and ways of thinking.
• Challenge conventional wisdom and freely expressing their own opinion.
• Potentially undertake line management for other members of the Business Consultancy team.

As a member of the People Transformation Practice your role will primarily focus on the people and organisation dimensions of the BTS remit outlined above. This will specifically include:

Organisational Design:

• Current and future state activity analysis and design
• Current people risk assessment to assess future impacts of change
• Organisational design activities within agree frameworks.

Business Case Development

• Current versus proposed future state costs
• One-time employee costs (retention and redundancy)
• Production of Exec level business case for proposed people transformation.

Communication

• Development of communication strategy and approach
• Development of communications plan and materials – slide packs, speaker notes, Q&As, logistics, runbooks for multiple people communication events for each programme.

Change Support

• Recommending appropriate support for current employees with change and other coaching and development materials
• Partnership with HR and Schroders professional career transition support service providers.

Support for People Transition

• Partnership with Talent Acquisition to develop recruitment strategy and approach
• Production of required artefacts including organisation charts, job descriptions Tracking monitoring and reporting on ramp up in target location(s)
• Provide input on and maintain role displacement (take-down plans), sequencing and tracking of current employees
• In partnership with HR provide guidance to senior managers on the HR and people communication aspects including track of attrition and mitigating measures for legacy
• Support HR and executives on aspects such as Social Plans in European countries.
• Liaison and support to HR through redundancy process (scripts, business case input, schedules).

Support for Business Transition

• Knowledge Share – creation of process inventory, training material and training plans
• Training – onboarding, on the job training, shadowing existing team
• Handover – orchestrate the staged handover of responsibility for processes
• Live Support – post live support for new team

Responsibilities of the role: As a member of the People Transformation Practice in the BTS team you are expected to:

• Support the creation of People Transformation as a new capability for the BTS team by both gaining experience of supporting and leading People Transformations yourself whilst also providing valuable input into the creation of a playbook and associated training material and templates
• Support the embedding of People Transformation as a core skill across the whole of the BTS team over time
• Deputise for the Practice Lead where required
• Have input into setting the strategy, mission statement, 3-5 year ambition and definition of the People Transformation Pipeline and practice book of work.

The knowledge, experience and qualifications you need

• Over 7 years of experience in a (management) consultancy role, or as high-performing analyst in an investment management environment
• Investment management experience gained primarily in Buy Side organisations, across a number of areas, such as:

o Different Investment business lines, such as Public Markets (e.g. Equities, Fixed Income, Multi-Asset), Private Markets (e.g. Private Equity, Real Estate, Private Debt) and Wealth Management
o Key functions of an investment manager, e.g. Front, Middle and Back Office, Distribution, Product Development, Technology and Corporate Functions

• Knowledge of the Investment Management value chain and end to end processes (client onboarding, product development, portfolio management, implementation, investment operations, fund administration, reporting, etc.)
• Experience leading large and complex consultancy assignments
• Established track record of strategy development, operating model definition and large scale change implementation
• Experience with proposition and thought leadership development
• An understanding and experience of iterative delivery methodologies, such as Agile and Scaled Agile
• Experience of line management
• Understanding of change management disciplines, processes and tools, such as:

o The key stages and lifecycle of change delivery
o Stakeholder Management and communication
o Planning and progress tracking mechanisms
o Monitoring and managing issues, risks and dependencies
o Governance and reporting

• Experience of business architecture
• Experience of Lean / Operational Excellence
• Experience leading and supporting People Transformation initiatives

The knowledge, experience and qualifications that will help

• Educated to a minimum of first / Bachelors degree
• Professional or higher level degree qualifications (e.g. CIMA, CFA)
• IMC
• Relevant Change Management qualifications (e.g. Agile/Scrum, Prince II).

What you’ll be like

• Self starters with ability to prioritise and manage own activities in the best interests of the organisation
• Analytical, strategic thinkers who are able to digest large amounts of complex information, bring structure, and distil insights down to concise, clear outputs
• Collaborative team player who will want to succeed as part of a high performing team
• Effective relationship builders, who can develop strong relationships across the whole organisation, and establish a role as trusted advisor to Executives, Heads of Departments and Business Change Managers
• Strong communicators, with the gravitas to present to C-suite and senior business and IT stakeholders
• Empathetic and professional, with high EQ.

We’re looking for the best, whoever they are
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