About HSM Advisory:

Here at HSM Advisory, we advance organisations by working with them to co-create a sustainable future. Through our research and advisory work, we bridge the gap between strategy and culture. As trusted advisors to the world’s biggest organisations, our holistic view and extraordinary tools can be used to deliver impactful insight. Over our fourteen-year history, we’ve worked with FTSE 100 companies, Magic Circle law firms, and the Big Four professional services firms. We have helped our clients win awards such as the Financial Time Innovative Lawyers award for Linklaters in 2014 and 2016 and Dentons in 2015.

HSM Advisory was founded in 2008 by London Business School Professor and award-winning author Lynda Gratton. In this role, you will be collaborating with Lynda on a variety of meaningful projects. We are searching for someone who is motivated by a human-centred future, who has an innate curiosity about the factors that contribute to human performance and someone that is hungry to make an impact through innovative and dynamic and fast-paced change initiatives.

We work in an incredibly exciting and cutting-edge environment. Each of our team members bring something unique and we would expect you to do the same. This is an environment where you can bring in your strategic view. You will be provided the space to develop and execute your ideas into action to grow the business. We invest a great deal of effort to support each team member as they grow their capacities and develop their maximum potential, both in terms of their roles and in respect to their talents and abilities. Being involved in a wide variety of work and being willing and able to assist other team members are also important components of this.

Role Description

Here are the ways in which we would expect a member of our management team to add value:

Build our business

• Owns the relationships with some of our biggest clients, acting as a trusted advisor on high visibility programmes
• Builds relationships with new and existing clients to generate ongoing business
• Identifies and manages the core problems HSM Advisory can solve for a client 
• Provides strategic direction on projects to our consulting team and skilfully manages complex stakeholder environments with our clients
• Exhibits curiosity and commitment to create better workplaces for people
• Delivers remarkable keynote presentations on HSM Advisory insights and research
• Demonstrates a pragmatic and commercial approach to supporting clients
• Finds sound growth opportunities through new service lines, markets, and other opportunities

Lead complex people-based projects

• Acts as programme lead on the delivery of complex global projects on exciting topics relating to people and change
• Leads focus groups, design workshops and leader interviews
• Has a holistic command of projects, identifying risks, challenges, and opportunities throughout the project lifecycle
• Engages stakeholders effectively, from CEOs to project managers
• Recognizes the client's internal drivers and challenges and delivers the guidance and advice they need to overcome blockers and achieve success
• Upholds HSM Values and builds rapport virtually and across different culture
• Capable of directing a team of consultants through complex qualitative analysis

Create a flourishing HSM Advisory culture

• Demonstrates leadership on projects, with the team, and with new business contacts
• Encourages the growth of other team members by mentoring newcomers and setting achievable targets and goals
• Demonstrates a positive and determined approach to their work
• Inclusive and respectful of all colleagues and understanding there is power in our collective

Deliver Great work

• Owns and delivers high calibre of work on our largest advisory programmes
• Leads project teams and manages deadlines accordingly
• Harnesses robust knowledge of HSM Advisory research and insights, demonstrating expertise
• Heads our consultants on analysing client data to derive insights within companies, and translates these into impactful recommendations for the client
• Delivers key internal projects as required (such as capability building for our consulting team) to enhance overall ways of working

What we are looking for

Attributes

• We're looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced setting and is eager to be a driver of growth.
• You’re highly structured and have an ability to manage simultaneous work streams and add strategic value rapidly. You thrive at delivering at pace working with a fantastic, ambitious, and truly collegiate team
• You bring a good sense of perspective and can stay focused on the bigger picture and reset when there are challenges or blockers to motivate the team
• Your levels of empathy enable you to both support your colleagues and team and navigate complex and sensitive issues for our clients
• You have strong communication skills with an ability and willingness to have difficult conversations when necessary and to flex your style to suit different stakeholders. You listen and ask questions rather than make assumptions
• You can connect information and ideas to respond to unique client needs and work with the team to develop new services for our clients

Experience

• Essential: 8 plus years’ work experience, ideally in a large consultancy firm
• Desirable: a background in change management, innovation, organisational behaviour, management studies, or HR-related fields, as well as experience with qualitative data
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Our benefits include:

• A competitive salary
• Enhanced employer pension contributions (5% matched)
• 25 days annual leave + an extra day for your birthday
• Generous parental leave
• Sabbatical options available after two years of employment
• Wellbeing days
• A volunteering day once a year
• A culture where you compete with yourself and not others for promotion. You will have a career map from the moment you join us and we recognise and reward performance consistently across the business.
• Flexible work and hours - we have a hybrid working model with team members spending half of their time in the office and half remotely
• Access to a financial planning coach through Octopus MoneyCoach
• Regular team socials including Christmas and summer parties
• Perkbox including a subscription to Aura and an employee assistance program along with other great discounts

We are committed to providing fair employment opportunities to all our employees and applicants. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, marital statuses, races, faiths, and socioeconomic backgrounds. If you require any assistance throughout the interview process to improve your experience, kindly let us know.