RIS Talent Solution Architecture Associate Director

Overview

Senior leadership role shaping and governing Accenture's Talent proposition across strategic GCC, BOT, Assisted Build-Out and workforce transformation opportunities, advising senior client and Accenture leaders on how talent can enable GCC establishment, scale and transformation.

What you'll do

• Serve as a senior Talent advisor for clients establishing, expanding or transforming GCCs.
• Translate enterprise strategy and transformation priorities into workforce strategies covering skills, organization capability, workforce economics and talent sustainability.
• Influence decisions on location, talent models, workforce mix, transition approaches and capability development.
• Shape integrated Talent architecture across Build, Operate and Transfer/Transformation stages, covering talent-market feasibility, location and skills strategy, talent acquisition, workforce planning, compensation, workforce deployment, learning, career architecture, engagement, retention and employee transition.
• Ensure Talent solutions align with the overall operating model and commercials.
• Lead Talent strategy for strategic RFPs, RFIs and complex pursuits, defining the Talent thesis, solution approach and executive storyline.
• Guide Talent Solution Architects in developing analyses and solution components.
• Represent Talent in solution reviews, deal-shaping forums and senior client presentations, challenging assumptions that may create workforce or delivery risks.
• Connect Talent strategy to solution economics and feasibility, guiding assessment of talent supply and demand, location strategy, workforce pyramid, skill mix, compensation, hiring velocity, sourcing, critical-skill premiums, retention, attrition and transition implications.
• Act as the senior Talent integrator across complex opportunities, partnering with Solution Architecture, Sales, Accounts, Delivery, Talent Acquisition, Staffing, HR, Talent Strategy, Learning, Employee Relations, Compliance, Finance, Commercial and global/onshore teams.
• Shape and lead strategic Talent workshops and discovery sessions, establishing key hypotheses, workforce requirements and design principles.
• Facilitate executive discussions on workforce strategy and transformation choices, converting discovery outcomes into solution decisions and actions.
• Provide senior review and challenge for Talent solutions across major pursuits, ensuring workforce assumptions are evidence-based, executable and commercially viable.
• Identify material Talent risks, embed mitigation strategies, drive consistency in Talent solution development and serve as the escalation point for complex workforce solutioning.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru.