At Acumen Strategy Consultants, people are at the center of how we create impact.
We're looking for an HR & Org Development Manager who brings a strong functional leadership mindset and capabilities to help execute people strategies that drive performance, culture and engagement.
This role goes beyond traditional HR operations. You'll play a key part in translating HR and OD strategies into seamless execution across the entire employee journey from recruitment and onboarding to performance, learning, engagement, and offboarding. If you're energized by building systems, improving processes, and creating meaningful employee experiences, we'd love to meet you.
What You'll Do
- Strategic Execution & Operational Excellence
- Execute programs aligned with our People Strategy to support growth, culture-building, and talent development.
- Drive process efficiency across the employee lifecycle by maintaining structured systems and tracking key people metrics.
- Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives that enhance the employee experience and organizational capability.
Core Responsibilities
- Talent Acquisition: You will manage and continuously improve the end-to-end recruitment process, ensuring a seamless candidate experience and alignment with team needs through data-informed hiring practices.
- Onboarding & Enablement: You will lead the coordination of onboarding and enablement journeys, creating structured transitions that accelerate new hires integration and readiness to contribute.
- Learning & Development: You will serve as a project manager for learning programs, ensuring all sessions are well-executed, tracked, and optimized to support capability-building across roles.
- Employee Engagement & Culture Programs: You'll bring our values to life by coordinating culture-building and engagement initiatives that foster connection, alignment, and team morale.
- People Team Communications: You will craft and manage internal communications that keep the tribe informed, aligned, and engaged with key people initiatives and updates.
- Performance Management Support: You will oversee the implementation of our quarterly performance management process, ensuring prompt completion, data consolidation, and support for developmental conversations.
- Compensation & Benefits Administration: You will handle payroll coordination, leave tracking, and benefits administration, ensuring our people systems are accurate, timely, and fully compliant with statutory requirements.
- Offboarding & HR Operations: You'll ensure offboarding is managed professionally and consistently, while maintaining updated employee records and generating insights through timely HR reporting.
Who You'll Work With
You will report directly to the Head of People and to the President.
You will manage internal stakeholders such as the Leadership Team, Mancom, colleagues from other support functions and Employees and Affiliates of Acumen.
Qualifications
- You have at least Five (5) years experience in Human Resources, ideally in dynamic, project-driven environments
- You are organized, proactive, and love working behind the scenes to make things work smoothly
- You understand the power of employee experience and want to shape it strategically, not just administratively
- You are confident handling day-to-day operations while contributing to people and culture initiatives that move the organization forward
- Demonstrated Strengths in:
- Talent Acquisition - able to successfully source and screen talents, manage the entire process and ensure representing the brand during the selection process.
- Project Management detail oriented, organized in keeping track of tasks, deadlines, and resources to ensure timely delivery and success outcomes
- Communication Skills - speaking and writing with clarity and confidence, building trust and engagement
- Shares the Acumen values on Integrity, Humility, Learning & Adventure, Holistic Wellness, Teamwork & Collaboration
Why join Acumen Strategy Consultants
Acumen is committed to the success and well-being of all its employees and affiliate consultants. We give high regard to empowering relationships, and we invest in resources (time, talent, treasure) to foster a high-performing environment that values and supports our people in pursuit of challenging goals.
Benefits
Compensation & Benefits. We ensure optimal levels of employee performance in meeting the organization's strategic objectives through providing competitive rewards and recognition programs that include:
- Leave program that allows for paid vacation, health-related, parental (maternity, paternity), bereavement, and emergency time off
- Comprehensive medical and dental coverage for members
- Financial assistance and gifts for selected life events
- Hybrid way of working + remote office equipment support
- Accelerate growth through and impact through diversity of learnings and teams
Career Development & Stability. We provide opportunities to learn from seasoned C-level practitioners and consultants and gain new experiences while helping brands and businesses across different industries.
Culture of Trust & Collaboration. We build an organizational culture that is deeply rooted in trust and collaboration by making our employees feel safe and valued.
Agile Work Environment. We help discover new passions, pursue interests, and have time for the most important people in your life through working in an agile environment.
Industry: Management Consulting
Employment Type: Full time
Work set-up: Hybrid but required to be onsite for face-to-face workshops and meetings, as needed.
