About This Role
This Management Consultant role involves shaping organizations at a strategic level by leveraging expertise in HR and management. The consultant will combine in-depth knowledge of competency and talent management with organizational insight, consulting skills, and commercial maturity, working with multidisciplinary teams to address complex organizational issues.
Responsibilities
- Advise senior management, executive teams, and HR leaders on broad issues such as talent, performance, leadership, and organizational development
- Analyze organizational issues from various perspectives and build evidence-based advice using the Quintessence methodology
- Design solutions with clients in areas such as performance management, talent and competence management, leadership, group dynamics, and organizational architecture
- Translate strategic questions into clear approaches and guide consultancy projects from analysis and concept development to implementation and evaluation
- Facilitate discussions, workshops, and change processes with senior stakeholders, creating movement even with differing interests or viewpoints
- Manage and develop sustainable client relationships, recognizing new needs and opportunities with existing clients and warm leads, and translating these into relevant assignments
- Actively follow developments in HR, organizational psychology, and management, bringing new insights to clients and colleagues, and contributing internally to the further development of expertise and services
- Take an active internal role: share expertise, support colleagues, bring in external insights, and contribute to the further development of services and organization
- Represent Quintessence externally, actively build a professional network, and share relevant insights with the market based on expertise
Requirements
- Extensive relevant professional experience in strategic HR, organizational development, or HR consulting, as well as experience in designing and guiding change or organizational projects, enabling mature interaction at senior management and executive levels
- Experience in a management or leadership context, understanding the challenges and considerations at management level
- Broad knowledge of the HR field, combined with in-depth expertise in at least one domain such as performance management, talent & competence management, leadership, organizational architecture, or group dynamics
- Ability to analytically approach complex HR issues and substantiate recommendations both substantively and scientifically
- Credible discussion partner for executives, senior management, and HR leaders through demeanor and persuasiveness
- Commercial mindset: listen to client needs, detect opportunities, and expand existing relationships based on substantive added value, translating new needs into relevant assignments for Quintessence based on trust in expertise
- Intellectual curiosity and the drive to continuously deepen expertise
- Professional and convincing communication in Dutch and English
- Sufficient fluency in French to work professionally with clients and stakeholders
- University degree, for example in psychology, educational sciences, organizational studies, or a related humanities field, forms a strong basis
Benefits
- Senior role with significant autonomy and responsibility
- Access to diverse organizations and complex HR issues
- Opportunity to further develop and showcase personal expertise
- Collaboration with experienced fellow consultants from various HR disciplines
- Opportunities for further professional development
Important Details
- Office base: Edegem (Antwerp)
- Travel: regular travel to clients is part of the role
About the Company
Quintessence is an innovative consultancy firm specializing in people management and organizational development. They combine the impact and expertise to work at a strategic level for large organizations with the closeness of an organization where colleagues know each other, share knowledge, and develop solutions together.
