Associate Consultant

Requisition ID
8360

Country
South Africa

State/Province
Gauteng

City
Johannesburg

About Us

**Korn Ferry** is a global organizational consulting firm. We help clients synchronize strategy and talent to drive superior performance. We work with organizations to design their structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people to bring their strategy to life. And we advise them on how to reward, develop, and motivate their people.

Our 10,000 colleagues serve clients in more than _50 countries_. We offer five core solutions:

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Organizational Strategy**:

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Assessment and Succession**:

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Talent Acquisition**:

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Leadership Development**:

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Total Rewards**

Job description
**The Role**

Typically delivering products and services across our portfolio to a group of clients (existing or new) that assist HR and line managers to effectively support recurring HR processes in their organisation. Mainly working around Pay & Reward products and services but is expected to work also in other product categories if needed. The role exists to both build and maintain client relationships that deliver profitable renewal, yield or new business. The role holder will deliver standard or customised work across the pay products and support clients in training & implementation of products.
**Key Responsibilities**:

- Typically works with clients across sectors with a focus on selected sectors
- Manages relationships with assigned clients during the delivery period of a product or service. Typical delivery period spans from weeks to over a year and requires collaboration with 2-4 stakeholders (both internal and external)
- Follows processes to increase client satisfaction amongst the assigned accounts. Takes action to improve client satisfaction if necessary
Is expected to be able to deliver presentations, workshops and client trainings around product and services
- Has shared responsibility of the creation, renewal and maintenance of the reward database in the assigned country
- Maintains ongoing relationships with assigned customers and achieves high renewal rates and creates opportunities for yield by understanding client needs and requirements and using this knowledge proactively in collaboration with commercial colleagues
- Responds in an appropriate and timely way to client needs
- Navigates a wide variety of existing processes, procedures and precedents to interpret data and identify possible answers
- Tracks and updates client information in customer relationship management systems
- Engage with manager regularly to discuss delivery activity levels, future meetings approaches to be successful, and technical support needed to assist in delivery of projects
- Prepares presentations and clients reports
- Provides accurate forecasts on existing projects with timely status updates
**Education, experience and other qualifications**:

- A bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification
- Some previous business experience preferred but not essential.
- Experience in HR or consulting area is preferred.

Competencies
- 1 - 2 years’ experience in consulting or account management
- Develops an internal network of relationships to proactively share experience and learn
- Seeks and acts on feedback, without defensiveness
- Proactively works to expand knowledge within the area of pay & benefits as well as other areas if needed
- Can measure and monitor own performance and start to understand trends and success factors
- Ensures understanding of deliverables and expectations
- Known for delivering or coordinating high quality work
- Executes appropriate processes correctly
- Korn Ferry is an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer - Minority/Female/Disability/ Veteran. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, age, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law._