Freelance Principal

Who We Are

United Minds is a global change consultancy that helps Fortune 500 clients transform their organizations, with a particular focus on the people side of change.

What Makes Us Different

At United Minds, our purpose is to make business more human – because we believe our collective futures depend on a human-powered world. We do this by helping leaders decide, design, develop and drive the future of their organization in partnership with people, and for people, using business intelligence to inform human-centered change experiences.

Partnering with some of the world’s biggest organizations, we deliver impactful, enduring change. Our core services include organizational transformation (M&A, spinoffs, restructures, marketing and digital transformation), leadership alignment, talent strategy development, culture change and employee experience. 

Our values – Big Thinking; Little Details; Giant Heart – inform our work… and the way we work with our client partners. We thrive on bringing original ideas to the table but know this only comes alive in the details. And most importantly, we do this with our whole heart – giving ourselves permission to care for each other, for the work, for our clients and ourselves.

What’s more, as part of The Weber Shandwick Collective, we’re able to tap into award-winning creative capabilities, the latest in AI thinking, and research, data and analytics to supercharge our solutions for clients.

Our Growth Ambition

We have big, bold growth ambitions at UM. And in a world defined by “extreme change”, we’re uniquely positioned to help our clients navigate the myriad of challenges they face. Our agile, innovation-first mindset means we are constantly incubating new offerings such as stakeholder fluency and narrative intelligence to ensure we’re as future-oriented as the companies we propel forward.

As part of our continued growth, we are looking for a Senior Consultant to join our North America team who can lead client-consulting projects, contribute to thought leadership, and participate in new business. 

Responsibilities

Trusted Client Partner

• Act as trusted advisors to C-suite clients, providing senior counsel across any and all of UM’s core offerings (change management, culture change, employee experience, leadership impact, employee engagement and multi-stakeholder insights)
• Role model exceptional client experience and counsel, building strong senior client relationships
• Embrace ambiguity and steer teams to navigate complex client situations
• Embody disruptive creativity and an eagerness to explore unconventional approaches to deliver innovative client solutions
• Ensure that the broad UM vision for a client account is cascaded to integrated teams and all internal partners within the Weber Shandwick Collective

Account and Business Management Expert       

• Partner with Senior Principals to design the project team structure and organically grow the business – identifying new opportunities and proactively developing client relationships
• Tracks and reports revenue by account to Finance and Leadership for revenue recognition and forecasting
• Review SOWs and project budgets
• Identify resourcing needs/gaps/opportunities to solve with UM’s VP, Operations

Operational Steward

• Oversee the overall fiscal health of the practice/client to maximize revenue goals and minimize investment time

• Own significant revenue under management and manage target billability

• Negotiate complex scopes and agreements with clients and required parties (Finance, Legal, Procurement, etc.)
• Regularly assess status of staffing and team assignments; manage account staffing and overall utilization metrics by practice/account

 

Talent and Culture Cultivator

• Exemplify our values of Big Thinking, Little Details and Giant Heart, and bringing them to life into relationships with clients and colleague at all levels
• Role models and fosters collaborative and supportive relationships with team members and counterparts in other practices
• Integrate junior staff into workflow scenarios; possesses the ability to delegate tasks while remaining accountable for outcomes
• Supervise junior staff by motivating, coaching, consistently providing feedback

Our Ideal Candidate

• At least 8-10 years’ of consulting experience working in human capital and organizational transformation in large, complex, multinational organizations.

• Excellent team and client management skills
• Ability to professionally interface with and influence clients
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