Professional Development Manager

Professional Development Manager | Premier Consulting Firm-NYC

• Full time
• Target comp $150k -$170k base comp + bonus eligibility and full benefits
• Onsite
• Madison Ave NYC

US Citizen or Green Card Holder ONLY AND ONLY apply if you’re LOCAL to the NYC Metro area-No relocation !

Keys

• Looking for someone with a true professional development / career coaching background - not traditional Learning & Development or HR.
• This individual will act as a trusted advisor to consultants and sales teams, helping navigate interpersonal, staffing, performance, and career development challenges.
• Heavy emphasis on relationship management, coaching, morale, retention, and overall employee experience.
• Will partner closely with leadership on consultant development, staffing alignment, performance reviews, and firm culture initiatives.

Firm Overview

Headquartered in New York City, our client is a leading private equity advisory firm with a 20+-year track record of rapid value creation for private equity firms and their portfolio companies. We perform robust fact-based customer & market and operational due diligence, craft pragmatic and actionable growth strategies, identify operations improvement opportunities, execute changes that maximize financial benefits. Within tight timeframes and through our differentiating mix of superior analytics, strategic, operations, and financial expertise, and establish compelling growth story ahead of exit, the firm delivers tailored solutions that allow our clients to rapidly confirm, reach, and often exceed their top-line growth and margin improvement objectives and help ensure successful exit.

The team works closely with leading private equity firms and senior executives while gaining strong hands-on consulting experience in an entrepreneurial setting. The work we do requires team members who are: passionate about raising the bar on what is possible; focused on doing whatever it takes to help clients succeed; critical thinkers and strong communicators who thrive in challenging, fast-paced, and exciting situations; and seeking to make a valuable imprint.

Role Description

Working out of the firm’s NYC headquarters and reporting directly to the Managing Partner, this Professional Development Manager will be responsible for the professional development of our consultants as well as for overall team morale in the firm. This person will act as the champion of the people at the firm and be the main point person regarding employment experience, steering individuals positively and focusing on their needs. This person will be involved throughout consultants’ full journey supporting the firm’s talent acquisition efforts to managing their growth to managing their transition out of the firm.

Responsibilities include:

Managing Professional Development

• Working directly with employees and developing strong relationships with each consultant via frequent 1:1 conversation to understand their needs, preferences, and concerns, and provide confidential advice and guidance on all aspects of career development and growth
• Understanding the firm’s overall project pipeline and priorities to better assist in balancing staffing based on the consultants’ skills, capabilities, professional growth objectives and interests, and personal situations
• Being responsible for organizing and coordinating training and other professional development needs, including creation of training materials and formal mentorship program, and managing the firm’s knowledge management system

Maintaining Positive Firm Culture

• Being a strong advocate for the consultants at the firm on a personal and professional level, monitoring consultants on a consistent basis for morale, retention, and affiliation
• Working with upper management to ensure that the firm is running smoothly and positively, leveraging constructive feedback received from the team
• Leading and maintaining team building efforts to contribute to the firms’ culture in a positive way
• Conducting exit interviews to draw insights that will improve the firm and developing and managing an alumni relationship program Managing Performance Review Process
• Managing the semiannual 360⁰ reviews, including establishing the review matrix, ensuring timely completion, processing, and synthesizing of reviews, and facilitating review discussions
• Managing the post-engagement review process, including setting up reviews, ensuring timely completion of reviews and feedback, and addressing any follow-up requirements
• Ensuring creation of personal development plans and conducting frequent check-ins with consultants on their progress on their personal development plans

Supporting Talent Acquisition

• Shaping the firm’s talent acquisition strategy and managing the firm’s recruiting efforts
• Communicating with candidates throughout the recruiting process to present the opportunity, explore fit, and enable positive outcomes.

Desired Qualifications/Experience/Skills

The culture of excellence, and we gain great satisfaction from working together and with our client counterparts. Our firm comprises exceptional people from varied backgrounds and with unexpected interests and remarkable lives. People who succeed are diverse yet share as core traits integrity, ownership/accountability, self-confidence, resourcefulness, energy, passion for learning and career advancement, and a “getting things done” attitude.

The ideal candidate meets the following requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required, MBA or other advanced degree preferred
• 5+ years' experience in talent management and professional development in consulting or other professional services fields
• Demonstrated success in establishing, developing, and managing a professional development function in a consulting or other professional services firm
• Strong interpersonal and coaching skills and ability to build trust-based relationships with consultants
• Well versed in resolving conflict quickly and effectively as well as in addressing all people challenges with upper management
• A highly organized and self-directed approach to work with impeccable attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast paced, ever-changing environment, while adhering the firm’s core values and culture
• Strategic thinker and problem solver
• Comfortable with use of technology and digital tools.