Manager - Partner Development

London, England, United Kingdom

12/17/2024

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our Partnership Office is a vital department. As well as supporting senior management in strategy, operations and decision making in the UK, this highly-experienced team make a big impact on significant projects and processes across our international network. A role in this team comes with a lot of responsibility and variety too. Whether you’re helping senior management implement key decisions and strategies effectively or delivering on your own projects, being part of this department means you’ll get plenty of exposure and experience. Could you make a real impact on our firm locally, nationally and internationally?

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

This role will principally operate within the wider Partner Office team (alongside colleagues running Partnership planning and Partner HR Operations) and will work alongside the Partner Development team responsible for our high potential Director and Partner Development programmes of work. In joining the team, you’ll experience a friendly and supportive environment; you’ll get to work with some of our most senior stakeholders in the business; and get plenty of variety to keep you on your toes.

The Partner Development team are responsible for the strategic development of our Partner pipeline and Partner Development programmes. The team works alongside the Partnership Office to develop projects in line with the Partner Engagement and Development Strategy. This role will involve working with the Senior Managers in the team to lead on and facilitate the development, engagement and promotion activities in line with the strategy - reporting to the Head of Partner Development.

This role will also support alignment across the wider People Development and firm wide learning activity to make sure consistency is maintained and best practice shared.

In this busy and rewarding role you’ll also;

• Provide latest thinking and best practice in the area of People Development and bring this thinking and recommendation to the strategy
• Design, implement and evaluate large development programmes
• Lead on firm wide initiatives to identify learning and development interventions to upskill and maximise the value of leadership roles in the firm from Director to Partner
• Provide subject matter expertise for key people priorities and act as the key “go to” individual for guidance and support in all learning, development, talent & engagement matters
• Have strong communication skills, demonstrating clear ability to lead, influence and have impact with credibility at a senior level
• Be able to adapt style to deliver to various levels, methods and audiences and support others to do the same
• Be proactive, analyse and identify contingency plans to account for changing priorities
• Analyse and interpret appropriate MI in order to present commercial and pragmatic recommendations and solutions to stakeholders
• Actively champion BDO’s learning offering to enable maximum utilisation
• Leverage knowledge and understanding of the firm to continuously define and refine the appropriate learning & development support required and offering delivered ensuring the appropriate level of consistency between streams and regions
• Actively champion the approach for firm wide and local initiatives and effectively challenge and influence key business stakeholders to work within these approaches
• Develop and grow solid relationships with our business stakeholders; and be viewed as a trusted consultant, challenging, supporting and coaching as appropriate
• Identify and foster excellent business partnering relationships
• Represent the Firm in external networking and business events
• Take a lead on working with the Partner Office and HRLT to develop social learning, communities of common practice and learning networks
• Analyse situations to identify external trends / gaps to capitalise on opportunities for doing things differently
• Encourage constructive challenges across working groups to support the delivery of change
  
  

You’ll be someone with:

• Strong experience of working as an experienced Manager in a large, complex organisation - professional services or finance preferred
• Qualified in psychometric instruments preferred
• Accredited Coaching Qualification preferred
• Experience of working with learning, development, engagement and talent strategies & frameworks
• Strong commercial acumen, with the ability to interpret MI and make recommendations
• Experience of facilitating and coaching at senior level
• Strong project management skills
• Experience of developing and working with social learning, communities of common practice and learning networks
• Experience in dealing with and influencing senior stakeholders
• Proven experience of organisational change and influencing others to adopt new ways of working
• Strong communication skills, demonstrating clear ability to influence and have impact with credibility
  
  

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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