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Principal Business Psychologist
Full-time role
Location: London
Who we are
Peoplewise is an award-winning global leader in strategic talent management and business psychology. Our end-to-end talent solutions future-proof businesses to ensure adaptability and longevity in a rapidly changing world. Our passion is transforming human behaviour. We do this by optimising individual and organisational potential.
We are specialists in talent assessment, leadership development and cultural transformation. Our pioneering talent solutions, including our award-winning assessments, high-potential identification methodologies, leadership development programmes and executive coaching, are transforming the performance of individuals and organisations across the globe.
Full-time role
Location: London
The role
We are looking for an experienced and passionate professional to join our London-based team of business psychologists. The successful candidate will have extensive experience delivering structured and emergent facilitation to executive audiences, commercially minded, essential to be from a consulting background, and be comfortable scoping, leading and delivering assessment, coaching and senior leadership development projects to a high-level/senior client base (senior leaders to chief executives).
You will have the opportunity to collaborate with our clients to scope, design and deliver talent management and leadership development solutions that help individuals realise their potential to enable and deliver business growth. These talent solutions span across various leadership levels, clients and industries.
We are looking for an individual who has:
- Knowledge and experience of talent assessments, culture transformation/team optimisation, learning and development, and learning innovation across digital, classroom, e-learning, coaching and wider blended learning and engagement solutions.
- A demonstrable consulting background in senior stakeholder management with strong skills in structuring and managing projects and programmes to meet and exceed client expectations.
- Interest in contributing to thought leadership to ensure that our assessment as well as learning and development strategies and methodologies inspire, engage, challenge and enable people to make the critical shifts required to achieve personal and business growth.
Peoplewise operates a hybrid working model based on individual and client needs. Our consultants beyond the M25 tend to be more home-based while those more local tend to come into the office for at least 1 day per week. In addition, travel is sometimes also required to our client sites located across the UK, with occasional international travel.
Key requirements
Qualifications & Knowledge
- Currently working in the field of organisational/occupational psychology
- Educated to Master’s degree level, in organisational/occupational psychology – obtained before 2021
- Membership of at least one of the appropriate professional bodies (e.g.,, BPS, CIPD, ICF, AC, HCPC etc.)
- BPS Test User Ability & Personality qualified (Desirable)
- Executive and senior leadership coaching experience (ESSENTIAL) – stand alone one-to-one coaching programmes
Experience
- Extensive experience delivering structured and emergent facilitation to executive audiences
- Has own practice of contacts and clients, looking to further expand and build their practice
- Demonstrable track record and experience working directly with senior leadership audiences (senior leaders/exec level leaders) on talent assessments, leadership development and people-focused projects, gained within a professional services or consultancy firm
- Proven track record of designing and delivering assessment, coaching, training and leadership development programmes at mid-career to c-suite leaders
- Ability to design and deliver robust, pragmatic, evidence-based learning methodologies
- Excellent communication skills (oral and written) with experience of facilitating learning experiences and giving presentations to a wide range of audiences with gravitas and credibility
- Proven track record of proactively managing client stakeholders, including providing thought leadership, constructive feedback, influencing decisions and delivering difficult messages
- Demonstrated track record of business development and increasing brand awareness
- Evidence of cross-industry experience (Desirable)
If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please submit your CV through LinkedIn.
Apply for this role
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