Delivery Engagement Lead

Requisition ID
- 14642
- Country- Australia- Location type- Hybrid- State / Province- New South Wales- City- Sydney- About Us**Korn Ferry** is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than _50 countries_. We offer five core solutions:

- ** Organizational Strategy**:

- ** Assessment and Succession**:

- ** Talent Acquisition**:

- ** Leadership Development**:

- ** Total Rewards**
- Job description**The Role**

Korn Ferry’s Organisational Strategy practice in Australia works with organisations to improve their performance by aligning their leadership, people, organisation and culture to their strategic goals. We believe that 90% of great strategy is about execution and 90% of great execution is all about getting the people-side right.

Our team brings deep expertise in operating model and organisation design, people strategy, strategic workforce planning, performance management, culture change, change management and communications.

Korn Ferry differentiates itself in the market in our ability to offer truly integrated end-to-end talent solutions. We are unique in the market in being able to bring fifty years of research and tens of millions of data points to help understand people and the organisations they work in, and we work very closely with our colleagues in other solution areas as we partner with clients.

We are looking to hire a Delivery Engagement Lead to join Organisational Strategy in Sydney. We’re looking for people who take an evidence-based and people-centric approach to thinking about work, with a passion for helping clients improve individual and organisational performance. Formal experience in people and organisational consulting is important. A background in psychology is helpful, but above all else a deep interest in understanding people is key.

You will work closely with colleagues to deliver complex and/or customised and/or multi work-stream solutions that meet and exceed client expectations. At this level, there is an expectation that you would contribute to winning business, generally through extension of existing work but also as a ‘go-to’ person in smaller clients. You will lead relationships and/or projects of considerable complexity and will have the experience and expertise to engage and mobilise a client behind a particular idea or solution.

**KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Lead and manage medium sized projects or complex work streams, including developing the project plan, engaging the resources and delivering the solution. Typical projects may last up to 6 months and would involve no more than 5 consultants.
- Manage small client relationships and/or support relationship development as part of the account in order to win work.
- Contribute to winning profitable business by conducting background research, proposal writing, pricing, shaping opportunities, pitch preparation and opportunity spotting in clients.
- Work with KF industry leaders to develop and customise offerings within a service line and targeted at a particular industry.
- Develop deeper expertise in at least one expertise area, as well as an understanding of KF’s broader offerings.

**Skills & Experience**
- Bachelors or Masters degree (psychology or people-related disciplines an advantage), plus 5 years work experience in the Strategy & Operations/transformation practice of a management consultancy OR HR operations/M&A integration /organisational development/organisational design experience in a corporate setting
- Track record of helping clients to develop and implement transformation roadmaps with a strong emphasis on the leadership, organisation, people, and cultural changes required to improve performance
- Skilled in some of the following areas:

- Operating model / organisation design
- Performance management
- Culture diagnostics and change management
- Workforce transformation
- People strategy development and implementation
- Comfort with ambiguity and the ability to work independently. Ability to proactively achieve goals and strategies under shifting conditions and with different tasks, job responsibilities, and people.
- Fluency in PowerPoint and Excel; familiarity with data analytics/visualisation tools such as Power BI, Orgvue preferred.
- Ability to communicate ideas and recommendations to clients in a professional, clear, concise and engaging way

**_Internal Mobility at Korn Ferry_**

**Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative**

**Action Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/ Veteran.**
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender id