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About the Role
As a Principal within the People, Culture & Change practice, you will help build and grow Gate One’s HR & Workforce Transformation capability. You will work with CHROs, CPOs, and senior business leaders to address challenges related to workforce composition, skills, operating models, performance, and organizational capability, combining deep subject-matter expertise with consulting leadership to drive practical and lasting change.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex HR and workforce transformation engagements from strategic diagnosis and proposition design through to implementation and delivery.
- Connect business strategy with future workforce capacity, capability, skills, and organizational requirements.
- Lead work across strategic workforce planning, organizational development (OD), and HR transformation to build necessary capabilities, skills, and ways of working.
- Advise clients on the implications of AI and emerging technology for work, roles, workforce composition, performance, and HR practices.
- Lead multidisciplinary Gate One and client teams, ensuring delivery excellence and measurable outcomes.
- Build and deepen executive relationships with senior HR and business stakeholders.
- Identify, shape, and convert opportunities in HR transformation, strategic workforce planning, and organizational development.
- Lead proposals, pitches, and commercial conversations.
- Develop distinctive propositions, credentials, and points of view.
- Collaborate across Gate One and the wider Havas network to create and grow opportunities.
- Help shape and grow Gate One’s HR & Workforce Transformation capability.
- Bring market insight and practical experience to the development of our methods, propositions, and go-to-market approach.
- Lead, coach, and develop consultants.
- Support recruitment and the development of a strong pipeline of HR, workforce, and organizational transformation talent.
- Act as a role model for Gate One’s values, behaviours, and consulting standards.
Requirements
- Approximately 10–15 years’ relevant experience, with substantial experience in management consulting or a combination of consulting and senior in-house HR transformation leadership.
- Operating at Senior Manager, Director, or Principal level.
- Proven track record of leading complex workforce, HR, or organizational transformation engagements.
- Deep expertise in HR transformation, strategic workforce planning, and/or organizational development (OD).
- Experience translating strategic workforce questions into practical programmes, interventions, and measurable outcomes.
- Strong understanding of areas such as organization design, future skills, talent and capability, performance, workforce experience, or learning and development.
- A forward-looking perspective on the impact of AI and emerging technology on work, workforce, and organisations.
- Experience shaping propositions, developing accounts, and contributing to business development.
- Excellent executive communication, influencing, and stakeholder-management skills.
- An entrepreneurial mindset and genuine interest in helping build and shape a growing capability.
- Genuine depth in HR/workforce transformation, strong consulting judgement, and credibility with senior HR leaders.
- Must hold the legal Right to Work in the UK.
Skills
- HR transformation
- Strategic workforce planning
- Organisational development (OD)
- Organisation design
- Future skills
- Talent and capability
- Performance management
- Workforce experience
- Learning and development
- AI and emerging technology impact on work
- Consulting leadership
- Business development
- Executive communication
- Influencing
- Stakeholder management
- Coaching
- Mentoring
Location
- UK
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Manager
- Director
- Principal
About the Company
- Gate One is a business and digital transformation consultancy dedicated to helping clients thrive.
- As part of Havas, one of the world’s largest global communications groups, creativity is in our DNA and shapes how we think, work, and deliver meaningful change.
- Our vision is for purpose-driven people to create lasting impact together.
- We combine creativity, entrepreneurial thinking, and consulting rigour to help clients deliver transformation that sticks.
- We are committed to providing an inclusive, transparent, and supportive environment where our people can do their best work, develop their careers, and make a genuine difference.
Equal Opportunity
- Gate One is committed to an inclusive hiring process. All applications will be given fair consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith, or social background.