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Consulting - Workforce/Talent Transformation Manager (NE)

  • North East (Erie)
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Project / Product management

Job description

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations. Combining unmatched experience and specialized skills across more than 40 industries and all business functions — underpinned by the world's largest delivery network — Accenture works at the intersection of business and technology to help clients improve their performance and create sustainable value for their stakeholders. With 469,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries, Accenture drives innovation to improve the way the world works and lives. Visit us at www.accenture.com .


Our Talent & Organization Consulting Practice

An engaged, skilled, and motivated workforce is essential to business growth. Accenture's Talent and Organization practice offers a comprehensive, analytics-based approach. We collaborate with clients to dramatically improve performance through integrated Future Workforce, Workforce Experience & HR, and Agile Organization services.

Talent & Organization helps clients create, lead, and manage the workforce of the future by:

· Driving growth through improving performance of people
· Building and expanding leadership capabilities at scale
· Creating compelling digital employee experiences
· Improving pace, certainty and outcomes through analytics and insights

Workforce Experience & HR

Accenture's Workforce Experience & HR offering helps clients create HR organizations, processes and practices that deliver measurable improvements in the performance of people and the organization. Workforce Experience & HR professionals provide knowledge and experience that help today's companies blueprint their HR strategy and operating model and support the planning, design, and deployment activities required to achieve broad HR transformational changes across the enterprise. Accenture provides methods, tools, and accelerators founded in best in class thought leadership to help our client's structure, launch, and implement the large-scale transformation programs which drives HR effectiveness and improves workforce performance.

By leveraging Accenture, our clients can take advantage of the following world-class consulting capabilities:

· Employee Experience Lifecycle
· Human Centered Design for Moments that Matter
· People Insights and Performance
· HR Strategy
· Digital HR & Workday/SuccessFactors/Oracle
· HR Operating Model and Capabilities
· HR Service Model & Strategy Design

Your Role


This Manager role is aligned to our Products Operating Group. Learn more about the solutions we are providing to clients in these industry areas at: https://www.accenture.com/us-en/industries-index

As a Manager within Accenture's Talent Organization practice focused on Talent Management Future Workforce will have the following responsibilities:

· Develop strong and strategic business relationships with clients Constantly bring new tools, ideas, and thought leadership to clients
· Deliver a Talent Strategy that addresses the clients unique and evolving business challenges
· Develop and manages project budgets
· Quickly estimate and develop agile, iterative strategies for implementing project work, opportunities and/or recommendations with limited guidance from Accenture supervisor
· Identify new opportunities to realize value with existing and/or new clients
· Measure achievement of strategic, financial and operational benefits
· Contribute to Strategic Workforce Planning that provides a robust and optimized human capital approach specific to the client
· Lead medium sized, virtual, global, diverse teams
· Utilize functional and industry knowledge to reframe complex client issues and bring fresh solutions
· Articulate value propositions, develop, and present compelling cases for change in a way that is creative and inspiring
· Use agile methods to deliver value quickly to the client
· Develop a strategy for Digital Function
· Job Design AIML Robotics Enable the client to harness the power of the liquid workforce
· Collaborate to determine an optimized and modern Talent Sourcing Strategy
· Build a capabilities and talent assessment function that can anticipate skills gaps
· Implement rapid workforce reskilling mechanisms to equip the client to nimbly respond to anticipated skill gaps
· Structure, plan and implement a digital learning strategy to keep the workforce current on relevant skills and knowledge
· Develop trusted relationships with key decisionmakers across client organization
· Actively collaborate with Accenture leadership to develop markets and clients

Desired profile

Qualifications :

Basic Qualifications
·  Minimum 5 years of external consulting experience or other relevant experience related to successful delivery of Workforce solutions
·  Minimum 5 years of experience in 3 or more of the following processes: Talent Strategy, Strategic Workforce Planning, Organization and/or Job Design, Liquid Workforce, Leadership Assessment and Development plans, Capability Talent Assessment, Rapid Workforce Reskilling, or Digital Learning
·  Experience in 2 or more of the following activities:
·  Talent Strategy Develop and Talent Strategy that addresses the clients unique and evolving business challenges
·  Talent Sourcing Strategy and implementation leveraging an ecosystem of talent options e.g. liquid workforce
·  Able to articulate a point of view and cocreator a strategy for Digital Function, Job Design AIML Robotics, Organization and/or Job Design
·  Use agile methods to design build new organization models and job descriptions
·  Digital Capabilities Design and build capabilities and talent assessment function that can anticipate skill gaps
·  Implement rapid workforce reskilling mechanisms to equip the client to nimbly respond to anticipated skill gaps
·  Structure, plan, and implement a digital learning strategy to keep the workforce current on relevant skills and knowledge
·  Minimum 3 years of project management experience
·  Bachelor's degree

Professional Qualifications
·  Ability to meet travel requirements, up to 75%
·  Ability to innovate and challenge norms
·  Ability to gain trust and confidence of clients
·  Agile work style, open to iteration and flexible to change approach/direction
·  Excellent ability to create collectively, harnessing the power of a group
·  Ability to generate new, creative approaches to solve problems and create opportunities
·  Proven ability to utilize data and analytics to drive new insights
·  Focus on value creation
·  Proven ability to build, manage and foster a diverse team
·  Ability to connect with people around a sense of purpose and shared goals to motivate and inspire

Preferred Skills
·  Knowledge of innovative work styles such as Design Thinking or similar methods for driving creative thought
·  Compelling storyteller
·  Large-scale and/or global transformation experience
·  Experience managing a thriving virtual team
·  Excellent leadership, management, and communication skills
·  Understanding of industry/workforce trends and drivers for Products clients (Retail, Consumer Goods, Industrial, Travel, Life Sciences/Pharma)
·  Experience realizing value with digital tools such as: Social, Media and Analytics
·  Familiarity with HR Technology landscape and architecture
·  Understanding of HR Service Delivery enabling technologies (User Interface, Portal, Incident & Case Management, Document Management, Telephony)
·  Comfort conveying both high-level and detailed information, adjusting the way ideas are presented to better address varying social styles and audiences.
·  An ability to challenge a client's thinking by diplomatically providing an objective and independent point of view.
·  Experience structuring activities that play to a team's strengths and provide opportunities for others to grow.
·  Basic understanding of key methodologies, approaches and market trends in the industry.
·  Project Management foundations - status reporting, work planning

Applicants for employment in the US must have work authorization that does not now or in the future require sponsorship of a visa for employment authorization in the United States and with Accenture.

Candidates who are currently employed by a client of Accenture or an affiliated Accenture business may not be eligible for consideration.

Accenture is a federal contractor and an EEO and Affirmative Action Employer of Females/Minorities/Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.

Equal Employment Opportunity

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law.

Job candidates will not be obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest as part of the hiring process.

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