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With more than 120,000 partners and staff in 144 countries, PwC is the largest global network of professional services firms ? offering a wide range of assurance, tax, and advisory services to many of the world's largest and most prestigious companies. PwC people have access to unparalleled knowledge, training, and technical resources around the world. As a long standing global leader in public accounting, PricewaterhouseCoopers is clearly a destination for many in the accounting and tax fields. But our firm is also known for its worldwide Advisory Services practice: trusted professionals with unparalleled knowledge of business processes, industry insight, and technology and customer relationship skills as well as financial and accounting expertise. Through these capabilities, we advise clients on some of the most intense aspects of managing their enterprise: issues involving performance improvement, transactions and crises. Whether our clients are pursuing new opportunities, responding to events or coping with the daily pressures of growth, competition and shareholder value, we?re there to help. Advisory specialists from all over the world routinely come together to assist clients in creating/acquiring new products or businesses, integrating business operations, enhancing performance, improving management and control, addressing crises and threats, restructuring business operations and disposing/decommissioning businesses or subsidiaries.

PwC's People & Change (www.pwc.com/us/peopleandchange) practice helps clients increase the effectiveness of their organization and its people by looking at how its workforce is organized, motivated, managed and led to drive better business performance. Leveraging PwC Saratoga, a leading source for HR benchmarking and measurement, we offer an integrated set of services, which includes Learning, Program & Portfolio Management, HR Effectiveness, Organization Design, Talent Management, Change Management and Communications. In addition to being ranked the 4th largest global human resource consulting firm by Kennedy Information, PwC also leads by example as evidenced by our 3rd annual ranking in Fortune Magazine's "100 Best Companies To Work For". Whether our clients are pursuing new opportunities, responding to events or coping with the daily pressures of growth, competition and shareholder value, we?re there to help. Advisory specialists from all over the world routinely come together to assist clients in creating/acquiring new products or businesses, integrating business operations, enhancing performance, improving management and control, addressing crises and threats, restructuring business operations and disposing/decommissioning businesses or subsidiaries. PwC's client value proposition is to help our client's operationalize their strategies.

Advisory's Peopel & Change team is currently seeking a Manager with Change Management and Communication. Manager requirements include:
Thorough knowledge and understanding assessing the human capital aspect of change readiness among stakeholder groups and identifying potential barriers and/or risks to implementation; analyzing the impact of the change on all areas of the organization; developing a change vision and strategy with leadership that is tailored to the organization's needs; planning and implementing change implementation activities to reduce resistance to the change; defining actions for successful cultural transformation; and, designing and delivering communications to obtain awareness, understanding, buy-in and support

Thorough knowledge and exposure to the common issues facing clients who provide products and services within one or more of the following sectors aerospace and defense, automotive, consumer and retail, energy, industrial products, technology or utilities.

A background in change management and communications as well as finance, accounting, auditing, internal controls or risk management. Qualified candidates should possess excellent interpersonal skills and work effectively in teams of client, PwC and other third party professionals. Managers will deliver projects and services to our clients on a regional, national and/or global business scale.

Managers will develop and deliver client solutions in the areas of change management and communications and will have accountability for the selling and completion of these projects. Managers will be responsible for delivering engagements of various sizes, providing leadership and management in a number of activities, including product/service knowledge, business development, client and project management and team and client relationship building. In partnership with the leadership team, Managers will actively participate in all activities required for the development of the practice.

Managers will oversee work of joint teams (PwC and client/contractor), optimizing workload balance and enforcing accountability; Act as coach and/or mentor to junior staff; and develop/administer training to develop overall skills of PwC staff.

Line of Service
Advisory
Industry
Products & Services Industries
Office
San Francisco CA; San Jose CA
Years Experience Required
6-10
Education Required
Bachelor's degree in organizational development, human resource development, finance, accounting, economics; Master's degree in business administration or finance optional

Job Requirements
6-10 years of progressive consulting experience in at least 3 of the following areas: change management, communications, development and delivery of learning programs, project management, process improvement
Travel Required
80-100%
Type of Position
Full Time
Job Code
ADVISORY-HCM-DP-135228

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