We are Wavestone: passionate, solution-oriented experts who place people at the heart of performance and growth. Ambitious and rapidly expanding, we are constantly developing our portfolio of clients and projects, with an international reach and a genuine desire to make a positive impact.
Are you a true team player, driven by strong values? Are you curious and determined, with a desire to learn every day? Are you the type of person who takes on challenges without hesitation? Then you've come to the right place. Join Wavestone and realize your potential in a stimulating and collaborative environment, where we transform today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities.
The HR Manager is dedicated to one of our Business Units and partners closely with the HR Senior Manager of this business unit (~ 650 people) to implement HR strategies, impactful projects and annual actions plans of Wavestone, playing a key role in engagement and retention to support of the business objectives.
Acting as an HR Business Partner, the HR manager consults with line management, provides daily HR guidance, analyzes trends and metrics, resolves employee relations issues, improves work relationships and productivity, and suggests HR corrective actions.
Main responsibilities:
- Support the HR Senior Manager in the roll-out and execution of the HR action plan of Wavestone and/or local actions decided on the scope, steering the HR budgets, training plans and contributing or leading HR projects, locally or at a Wavestone level
- Analyze HR KPIs and their related trends to monitor progress of HR action plans, define relevant and pragmatic corrective actions when needed, providing clear overview of the HR situation on the scope
- Provide high level support to Career Development Managers (CDM) of Senior Consultants to Managers mainly, regarding policy appropriation, best practices, employee behavior, performance management and development.
- Engage and develop proactively the HR team (~ 5 people), mainly junior profiles, supervise all their activities to ensure performance of HR operations and make them grow in their role
- Develop and implement proactively initiatives related to diversity, equity, and inclusion in compliance with the company’s CSR commitments
- Ensure the quality of the employee experience, from onboarding to offboarding, driving the Talent Mangement process for Senior Consultant to Manager, monitoring and improving constantly its efficiency, partnering with Squad Leaders
- Facilitate regularly HR interviews with Senior Consultants and Managers to assess their level of engagement, improve work relationships, increase productivity and enable retention
- Identify potential issues, particularly flight risks, and psychosocial risks, and proactively solve them, either by your own or by mobilizing the relevant stakeholders, suggesting solutions aligned with operational stakes
- Ensure consistent application of company policies and processes on the scope, making regular assessments in order to enhance HR processes, systems, and capability, partnering with IT teams when needed
- Analyse HR KPIs and their related trends to monitor progress of HR action plans, define relevant and pragmatic corrective actions when needed, providing clear overview of the HR situation on the scope
- Between 7 and 10 years of experience in HR developpment activities. Ideally coming from a consulting background.
- Being an ambassador of the Positive Way (#Energetic #Responsible #Together) to contribute to spreading Wavestone’s values within their scope and serve as a role model (>> Positiveway book)
- Ability to communicate effectively and confidently with all types of stakeholders, both orally and in writing (with clarity and simplicity)
- Rapidly establishing trustful relationships with any type of interlocutor
- Ability to understand and to be connected to consulting stakes & teams
- Agility and flexibility in organization (time and priority management)
- Capable of managing change within the organization.
- Analytical and goal-oriented rather than process-oriented
- Demonstrating self-control and resilience
- Fluent in French and abilility to work in English
Why joning us ?
- Talent-Centric Approach: Wavestone places talent and corporate social responsibility (CSR) at the heart of its strategy. The HR Director of Wavestone, the Recruitment Director and the Head of CSR are members of the Executive Committee of the firm
- Strategic HR Function: The HR function is strategic, expected to add value, promote organizational values, and stay at the forefront of HR practices—not merely a support function.
- Great Place To Work: The company is recognized as a Great Place To Work, ranking number one in its category among organizations with over 2500 employees.
- Ambitious Business Project: The company is experiencing significant growth both in France and internationally, driven by an ambitious business project.
- Demanding Work Environment: Employees operate in a challenging work environment, engaging with high-level stakeholders.
What We Do
In a world where knowing how to drive transformation is the key to success, Wavestone's mission is to inform and guide large companies and organizations in their most critical transformations, with the ambition of a positive outcome for all stakeholders. It's an ambition anchored in the firm's DNA and embodied in the signature “The Positive Way.”
Wavestone draws on over 3,000 employees across 9 countries. It is a leading independent player in European consulting.
Wavestone is listed on Euronext Paris and recognized as a Great Place to Work®.
