About the Role
We create and deliver workforce and organizational transformation initiatives, responding to changing business needs, digital disruption, and the impact of AI. These roles are about developing solutions across talent, skills, technology, and culture, enabling organizations to build future-ready workforces and drive sustainable change.
Responsibilities
- Support the design and implementation of workforce and skills transformation programs, including operating model change, workforce planning, and organizational design.
- Contribute to the development of career frameworks, succession planning approaches, and talent strategies that align workforce capability with business objectives.
- Support the selection, implementation, and optimization of HR and workforce technologies (e.g., Workday), ensuring alignment with people processes and user needs.
- Analyze workforce skills gaps and contribute to strategies that address emerging capability needs in the context of automation, AI, and digital transformation.
- Use data and analytics to generate workforce insights, track performance, and inform strategic decision-making (e.g., retention, performance, diversity).
- Support change management activities, including stakeholder engagement, communications, and adoption planning to embed new ways of working.
- Contribute to the design and facilitation of leadership and cultural interventions that enable behavioral change and drive organizational performance.
- Build strong working relationships with client stakeholders, collaborating across multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
Requirements
- Working in consulting, HR transformation, workforce strategy, or organizational change roles.
- Demonstrated experience in at least two of the following areas: Career Pathways & Talent Management, HR / Workforce Technology (e.g., Workday), Skills & Workforce Transformation (incl. AI impact), Workforce / People Analytics, Business Change / Change Management, Leadership & Culture design or facilitation.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
- Ability to support delivery of client-facing projects in complex environments.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills – able to have difficult conversations and to write clearly for different audiences.
- Collaborative mindset with the ability to work across teams and disciplines.
- Experience in large-scale transformation programs (public or private sector).
- Knowledge of workforce planning methodologies and operating model design.
- Familiarity with change management frameworks (e.g., ADKAR, PROSCI).
- Experience using people analytics tools (e.g., Power BI, Excel modelling).
- Professional certifications (e.g., CIPD, PROSCI, PRINCE2, Agile).
- Experience working in government, defence, or regulated environments.
- High levels of emotional intelligence and experience working with a range of stakeholders so that you can adapt your approach to different client and organisational contexts.
- A collaborative and enthusiastic style, with flexibility to work on diverse challenges in small, cross functional, or large teams.
- Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with an ability to delivery practical results.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills which enable you to translate complex digital concepts into clear, human-centred messages.
- The ability to build trusted relationships quickly with colleagues, clients and senior stakeholders.
- A forward-thinking mindset with a strong interest in future of work, AI, digital transformation, workforce strategy and people analytics.
- Applicants must have at least 5 years of continuous residency in the UK for some UK roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting.
Skills
- Talent Management
- HR Technology
- Workday
- Skills Transformation
- AI
- Digital Transformation
- Workforce Analytics
- People Analytics
- Business Change
- Change Management
- Leadership
- Culture Design
- Facilitation
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving
- Communication Skills
- Collaboration
- Workforce Planning
- Operating Model Design
- ADKAR
- PROSCI
- Power BI
- Excel Modelling
- CIPD
- PRINCE2
- Agile
- Emotional Intelligence
Location
- UK
- Ireland
- US
- Nordics
- Netherlands
Work Type
- Hybrid working
- Onsite
- Client site
Experience Level
- Consultant Analyst
- Consultant
- Senior Consultant
Benefits
- Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare
- 25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
- Generous company pension scheme
- Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
- Annual performance-based bonus
- PA share ownership
- Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
About the Company
- We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
- Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster.
- Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
- We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists.
- We have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
- Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
- PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
- Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world’s most complex challenges.
- We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Equal Opportunity
- We are dedicated to supporting the physical, emotional, social and financial well-being of our people.
- We’re committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief, veteran status, or any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience.
- We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
- Adjustments or accommodations - Should you need any adjustments or accommodations to the recruitment process, at either application or interview, please contact us.
