People & Change – Manager

KPMG a global network of professional services firms, is hiring a People & Change Manager for their East Africa practice. The successful candidate will analyze clients’ needs, develop strategies, and lead a team to deliver tailored HR solutions, ensuring compliance with KPMG policies and professional standards.

Responsibilities:

• – Manage engagements or projects to consistently achieve specific revenue and profit objectives and deliver designated engagement deliverables.
• – Maintain a progress tracker of engagement milestones, tasks, and deliverables.
• – Plan and manage client engagement risk and project budget.
• – Identify and escalate key client challenges to assess the best possible intervention.
• – Provide technical knowledge, direction, and training to the engagement team to produce quality deliverables.
• – Develop and maintain relationships with stakeholders/clients.
• – Contribute to proposal development efforts by driving market initiatives through involvement with relevant markets team.
• – Manage client relationships through cross-selling by knowing and sharing valuable client information.
• – Provide timely and objective feedback to teams on task performance.
• – Build industry knowledge through involvement in events, articles, and thought leadership.
• – Ensure compliance with policies, standards, and procedures.
• – Ensure delivery teams are appropriately supervised, coached, and supported to ensure no write-offs.
• – Perform any other duties and responsibilities as assigned from time to time.

Requirements:

• – Master’s degree in Human Resources.
• – Bachelor’s degree in humanities or a related field.
• – Membership of a relevant professional body such as CIPD or IHRM.
• – Minimum of 8 years of experience in human resource consulting.
• – Experience in managing HR engagements, e.g., organization structure review, workload analysis, change management, etc., in East Africa.
• – Strong consulting skills, able to effectively support all aspects of engagement delivery, end-to-end, with minimal supervision and high accountability.
• – Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to proactively engage and consult with others across all levels.
• – Good communication skills (written and verbal).
• – Ability to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• – Strong business writing, report writing, presentation, and research skills.
• – A high standard of integrity and a high aptitude for learning new approaches and innovation.
• – Self-driven and results-oriented.
• – Team player with good people management, work organization, and coordination skills.
• – Networking and stakeholder management skills.
• – Training/facilitation skills.
• – Diligent and committed to excellence.
• – Excellent coordination and planning skills.
• – Resilience and tenacity: must be able to sustain motivation and commitment, and can contain and absorb stressful moments and issues.
• – Willingness to travel within and outside the region as needed.

If your career aspirations match this exciting opportunity, please use the link below to apply:

People & Change Manager – Candidate’s Summary. Filling the link is mandatory for consideration alongside your application to talentrecruit@kpmg.co.ke quoting ‘P&C – Manager’ by 02 June 2024.

KPMG offers an exciting opportunity to work with a Big 4 firm on cutting-edge clients across Africa, continuous learning and development, exposure to multi-disciplinary client service teams, and unrivalled space to grow and be innovative.