Job Description

Summary of Role Purpose:
As the digital workplace changes, CEOs are prioritising learning, skills, and workforce planning. AI is increasing the skills gap, creating significant demand for re-skilling and up-skilling, and opportunities to help clients design learning and workforce solutions.
This is an exciting time to be joining our team! You will have the opportunity to work with FTSE100 clients across a broad range of industries, including Energy, Telecoms, Retail, Life Sciences and Aerospace & Defence, shape our approach to learning and workforce transformation and further develop our brand and capability.
We are looking for a skilled professional who shares our enthusiasm for the potential of learning and workforce solutions. This individual should be committed to making a meaningful difference for both individuals and organisations, while contributing to the development of innovative solutions and helping us position ourselves as thought leaders in the field.
You will join our People Practice which is an integral part of KPMG Advisory and is a growing part of our business. This team helps to transform organisations by focusing on the people lens of any transformation. We do this by focusing on 4 key capability areas:

• Learning Solutions

• Workforce Transformation

• People Centric Transformation

• HR Transformation

Across these capabilities we support our clients around: digitally enabled employee engagement; skills and capabilities; learning transformation, agile organisation and workforce; shaping the future of the workforce; people change and leadership capability; value-driving efficient and cost-effective HR, powered by tech.
Description of the role:
We are seeking a Manager with experience in large scale People Centric Transformations who will bring experience, insight, and energy to drive complex solutions for our clients.
We are specifically looking for an individual who has experience in learning solutions, learning op model, skills and capability analysis and strategy build, future strategic workforce planning, and an understanding of AI solutions. The ideal candidate will have experience of learning consulting with large, complex clients.
We are looking for a candidate who wants to grow their leadership experience and practice at KPMG, who is also passionate about developing their team members and expanding their knowledge of emerging learning and capability solutions.
Role dimensions:
The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Work closely with FTSE 100 clients primarily across a diverse set of corporate clients, for example Energy, FMCG, Telco, Pharma, Life Sciences, and Media
• Lead learning and workforce projects and workstreams with a small team of consultants, to drive business change, integrating across large multi-disciplinary programme teams and providing direction and knowledge on the learning and workforce side of the solution/ implementation
• Build and manage existing relationships with clients, and support in generating new client opportunities
• Take a lead role in continuing to innovate our learning and workforce tools and assets
• Take a lead in knowledge sharing and developing skills internally across our team
• Be a coach for consultants helping them to develop and progress their careers

The Person. Required Skills and Qualifications:
You will ideally have proven consultancy experience in helping clients to shape and deliver their learning transformation programmes and solutions including:

• Learning strategy & planning
• Learning op model
• Training needs analysis
• Skills and capability assessment and designing a skills-based organisation
• Strategic workforce planning
• Knowledge and understanding of how AI tools can be used for learning and capability strategy
• Stakeholder management including defining the right solution for clients based on their unique context and needs
• Leadership alignment across workstreams
• Understanding of learning and workforce tools and systems e.g. LMS
• Have 'core consulting' experience in developing proposals, managing teams and project risks, influencing upwards both internally and externally, and leading through complexity and ambiguity.
• Change management experience desirable

KPMG Overview:
KPMG in the UK is part of a global network of firms that offers Audit, Legal, Tax and Advisory services. Through the talent of over 16,000 colleagues, we bring our creativity, insight and experience to solve our clients' and communities' biggest problems. We've been doing this for more than 150 years.
We aim to be universally recognised as a place for great people to do their best work. A firm known for our collaborative and inclusive culture, using technology to empower and equip our people to deliver outstanding work with real flexibility - through inspiring workspaces, innovative ways to collaborate and hybrid ways of working.
With offices across the UK, we work with everyone from small start-ups and individuals to major multinationals, in virtually every industry imaginable. Our work is often complex, yet our mission is simple: To support the UK in a connected world. It guides everything we do, underpinned by our values: Courage, Integrity, Excellence, Together and For Better.

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