Lead ES People Consultant

Job Overview

Lead Employee Success (ES) Consultant, based in London, partner closely with ES teams, Employee Relations, People Services & Operations, Compensation, Mobility, Recruiting, and Talent Development to coordinate, roll out and execute ES programs and initiatives that support business needs of the organization.

The role delivers business value to the UK & Ireland team, supports managers and employees, and leads ES projects.

Responsibilities

• Act as a trusted advisor to business leaders, ensuring people strategies support business needs.
• Partner with leadership to drive organizational effectiveness and a high‑performance culture.
• Support the business through transformation and change, including reshaping, growth, acquisition, and reorganization.
• Work directly with managers to resolve medium to complex issues, providing guidance, coaching, and support.
• Use business and country insights and best practices to influence, coach, enable, and support people leaders and teams through complex ES topics.
• Serve as a project lead for ES programs, managing objectives, timelines, communication plans, and measuring to successful completion.
• Monitor and interpret trends and metrics around employee satisfaction, attrition, and turnover, and provide data‑driven insights.
• Use HR analytic tools to make data‑driven business decisions and provide narratives to leaders on overall organizational health.
• Support digital transformation efforts from ES operations, such as AI‑driven recruitment and process automation.
• Partner with ES Operations on knowledge transfer and resolving root‑cause service delivery issues affecting employee and manager experience.
• Lead initiatives with COEs and PS&O peers to identify scalable work that can be improved through automation or process redesign.
• Mentor and onboard others across the ES organization, coaching them through initiatives.
• Apply HR knowledge specific to relevant countries, including Labour Relations, Works Councils, and Unions where applicable.

Qualifications & Key Skills

• Proven track record of AI fluency through designing and implementing AI‑enabled process improvements.
• Demonstrated ability to support a diverse, geographically dispersed, multicultural, fast‑paced environment.
• Self‑starter, proactive, comfortable with ambiguity, and proven change‑agency.
• Ability to develop effective relationships across all levels of the organization and with diverse client groups.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills; concise and impactful communicator.
• Strong analytical skills: collect, assimilate, analyze, and present data; transform trends into actionable themes.
• Strong knowledge of Google Drive (Sheets and Slides) or similar spreadsheet and presentation software; Workday and Salesforce a plus.
• Ability to partner with COEs to design, build, and implement programs and processes that support business needs.
• Skill in delivering difficult feedback, coaching leaders through challenging scenarios, and facilitating team discussions.
• General knowledge of employment policies, practices, staffing, compensation, and talent‑management best practices.
• Experience partnering with Labour Relations, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure employment legal compliance.
• Equal Employment Opportunity

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