Coordinator - Professional Development

Description du poste:

You will take end-to-end ownership of the professional development and staffing for a cohort of consultants across the Swiss office in the heart of Zurich while working closely with consultants, partners, and other team members.

You will acquire and continuously refresh a sound understanding of a dedicated industry's/sector's key clients, hot topics, and firm expertise/staffing pools that are relevant to bring the best of the firm to a given study. Your work will help to ensure consultants are appropriately staffed in teams where they can leverage their experience, have opportunities to learn and develop, including positive team experience. At the same time, you will help project leaders and partners to navigate staffing, find the best-fit profiles and help them compose the team accordingly.

You will monitor each consultant's development, career progression, and other career-related topics as they arise and provide your consultants with formal and informal feedback related to their staffing and evaluations. You will work closely with internal mentors and industry/practice leads, to ensure that consultants receive timely and required development opportunities, while reflecting needs in client service.

You will build strong, trust-based relationships with consultants including an in-depth understanding of professional aspirations, experience, strengths, development needs, and relevant personal skills. You will build capabilities to appropriately guide and support the consultants in their journey and staffing.

You will report and manage the information flow in the required systems. Moreover, you will own the reporting for an industry sector to create transparency and support decision-making for our Industrials leadership. In addition, you will foster community building among the colleagues in that practice by implementing formats which help consultants and leadership to connect, exchange and build lasting mentoring and sponsorship relationships.

You will also work and assume responsibility for a variety of ad hoc as well as special projects surfaced by the office leader, professional development leaders and other key stakeholders.

Your colleagues-at all levels-will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. You'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won't find anywhere else

Profil requis du candidat:

* Bachelor's or master's degree or vocational education with a higher degree
* Experience in HR, staffing, professional development, or talent management is required; prior experience within a professional services firm, consulting environment, or fast-paced corporate setting is highly preferred. people development combined with excellent interpersonal, coaching and team skills; ability to build great relationships with consultants, partners, and international colleagues
* High level of drive, initiative, leadership and judgment
* Excellent organizational capabilities, including the ability to coordinate multiple workstreams proactively, initiate tasks independently and see them through to completion
* Proficient in rational decision making based on data, facts, and logical reasoning
* Ability to create work product-focused materials / outputs, which may include PowerPoint decks, Excel models, articles, or other written deliverables
* Strong analytical skills to gather, visualize, and analyze professional development/HR related facts in detail
* Comfort with engaging with and managing conflict
* Exceptional time management to meet your responsibilities in a complex and largely autonomous work environment
* Ability to work or attend meetings outside of traditional business hours or take on projects with limited or no notice at times
* Outstanding communication skills, both verbal and written, in English are mandatory; additional language skills in German are preferred, with the ability to adjust your style to suit different perspectives and seniority levels