Randstad Talent Advisory - Consultant
Randstad Enterprise is a global talent leader, providing solutions and expertise that help companies position for growth, execute on strategy, and improve business agility. Through Randstad Talent Advisory, we deliver forward-thinking workforce strategies, combining research, technology, and human ingenuity to help organizations solve complex talent challenges.
Job Purpose / Role Impact
To execute high-quality data analysis, research, and collateral creation using advanced technology and your own AI curiosity, converting raw information into solid foundation blocks for client delivery while learning the advisory craft on the job.
As a Consultant, you are the baseline execution engine of our project delivery. Bringing your curiosity, problem solving skills, and drive for excellence to our team, you offer fresh insight, analytical capability, and a deep interest in people and the evolving nature of work. Your focus is a generalist one, working across all product areas, including Work Design, Assessment, EVP, Emerging Talent, Operating Models, and Work Planning, but you do not require prior experience or knowledge and will learn our methodologies from the ground up.
This role is ideal for graduates or someone looking for a fresh start in a new career - who has a particular interest in consultancy and shaping future workforces. The Talent Advisory team will help you learn effectively, without feeling overwhelmed. Defining your focus areas, where you collaborate, and the boundaries of your role.
What You Will Do: Key Responsibilities & Rhythm of the Role
Your time and energy will be balanced across three core areas:
1. Delivery Engine (75% of your role)
- Tech-Driven Data & Analytics: Run complex talent analysis efficiently, actively adopting AI models and automation tools to shorten time-to-insight.
- Collateral & Content Production: Draft baseline communications, report content, presentation decks, insight reports, and client workshop packs that are simple, clear, and error-free.
- Research Mastery: Gather market trends, talent intelligence, and industry benchmarks, synthesising findings into actionable client summaries.
2. Product Development (10% of your role)
- Support the execution and testing of standard product frameworks.
- Assist in building collateral to showcase and explain our core advisory solutions.
- Identify opportunities for continual improvement.
3. Learning & Administration (15% of your role)
- Upskill on advisory methodologies
- Keep pace with emerging AI and talent trends.
- Participate in internal team workshops Manage standard admin (timesheets, project documentation, and logistics).
Role Scope & Boundaries
To help you learn effectively and thrive:
- Where You Lead & Own: Project tasks under guidance, AI/automation tools for data extraction/analysis, drafting baseline deck/report content, clean project documentation, and owning your personal learning path.
- Where You Collaborate & Support: Building proposal decks, attending client project meetings to observe client management, presenting small data sections internally/externally once proven, and testing product frameworks.
- Outside Your Scope: end-to-end ownership of entire workstreams, independent client relationship management, independent responsibility for active sales pitches or commercial targets.
Who You Are (Success Profile)
- Smart, Analytical & Agile: Rapidly absorb and synthesize new information in fast-moving conversations. Comfortable turning complex quantitative and qualitative data into straightforward explanations.
- Humancentric: Passionate about people, and talent with a drive to maximise joy at work .
- Versatile & Adaptable: Comfortable with ambiguity, multitasking, and shifting project demands without losing sight of goals.
- Commercial Mindset & Curiosity: Driven to create real-world impact and actively curious about deploying AI and digital platforms to optimize work.
- Growth Motivated: Proactively seek feedback to accelerate your career and master foundational consulting skills.
Core Competencies & Capabilities
- Structured Problem Solving: Ability to break down discrete client tasks under guidance, gather inputs systematically, and surface anomalies early.
- Data Synthesis & Insights: Skill in scanning, interpreting, and validating workforce data to support recommendations with total data integrity.
- Written & Visual Communication: Ability to structure written materials and slides clearly, concisely, and cleanly.
- Verbal Communication & Facilitation: Confident in presenting specific task outputs and data sections concisely in team settings and small client meetings.
- AI Augmentation & Digital Efficiency: Proactive curiosity in deploying advanced digital tools and AI models to reduce time-to-insight.
- Project Governance: High attention to detail, maintaining clean project files, tracking milestones, and managing upwards clearly.
What Success Looks Like
- Accuracy & Quality: Deliver accurate data sheets, research summaries, and slides requiring minimal senior reframing or formatting corrections.
- Tech Efficiency: Confidently leverage AI and digital tools to execute analytical tasks efficiently.
- Proactive Communication: Keep Senior Consultants and Directors continuously informed on task progress.
- Internal Presence: Actively contribute ideas and insights during team sessions, building confidence through continuous feedback.
Final notes:
This role is part of a structured development programme. We do not expect applicants to bring subject matter expertise or pre-existing AI fluency. We are looking for people with a genuine interest in the areas we consult in, a drive to deliver excellence for our clients, a deep curiosity and openness to progressive technology, and a commitment to continual professional growth.
New joiners will be part of a small cohort (2-4 people) and will be given a week-long induction, a structured learning programme which covers consulting skills, subject matter expertise, and the application of AI and Automation to people and talent projects. Each Consultant will also be given individual and group coaching and will have a dedicated mentor.
To find out more please feel free to get in touch with our dedicated Talent Acquisition Partner at becky.suckling@randstadsourceright.co.uk
Equal Opportunity Employer & Inclusion
Randstad Enterprise is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.
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