Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organisations build their digital core, optimise their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent and innovation led company with 732,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. We are uniquely able to deliver tangible outcomes because of our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Accenture Song. These capabilities, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients succeed and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities. Visit us at accenture.com.

Accenture UK & Ireland

Job Role: Talent Transformation Manager

Location: London, Manchester, Edinburgh

Salary: Competitive salary and benefits

Career Level: Management Consulting Manager (CL7)

 

Accenture is a leading global professional services company, providing a broad range of services in strategy and consulting, interactive, technology and operations, with digital capabilities across all of these services. With our thought leadership and culture of innovation, we apply industry expertise, diverse skill sets and next-generation technology to each business challenge. We believe in inclusion and diversity and supporting the whole person. Our core values comprise of Stewardship, Best People, Client Value Creation, One Global Network, Respect for the Individual and Integrity. Year after year, Accenture is recognized worldwide not just for business performance but for inclusion and diversity too.

“Across the globe, one thing is universally true of the people of Accenture: We care deeply about what we do and the impact we have with our clients and with the communities in which we work and live. It is personal to all of us.” – Julie Sweet, Accenture CEO

As a team:

Talent Transformation is the strategic evolution of skills, capabilities, and associated organisational wiring that support an organisation’s business strategy. It's about continuously reinventing talent by identifying and executing on the most critical changes needed across the enterprise, for teams, and for individuals. This is more than just training people, finding faster ways to hire people, or implementing a technology. It’s about truly transforming an organisation’s talent and the systems that create lasting organisational change to accelerate strategic execution, drive speed and agility, amplify talent potential, build resilience, and improve sustainability.

We partner with organisations to build a talent strategy that defines how to access, create, and unlock the potential of talent. We help access talent by strengthening diverse talent pipelines, both internal and external, matching the needs of the business to people’s skills and aspirations. We help create talent by using skills as the foundation to help people continuously build market relevant skills through equitable access to career opportunities. And we unlock potential by creating conditions across the organisation that allow people to do their best work every day and leave them net better off.

We view skills-driven organisations as a human + technology network where skill-based talent practices unlock opportunities for individuals and maximise talent potential for the organisation. We support our clients to build the right capability through implementing learning and re-skilling programmes to ensure organisations have the right people and right skills to better position their talent across the organisation based on skill supply/demand.

In our team you will:

Learn, grow and advance in an innovative culture that thrives on shared success, diverse ways of thinking and enables boundaryless opportunities that can drive your career in new and exciting ways.

Work in dynamic teams to deliver innovative learning and reskilling solutions to our clients. Work with cutting-edge learning technologies and have the opportunity to develop a wide range of new skills on the job. If you’re looking for a challenging career, working in a vibrant environment with access to training and a global network of learning consultants, this could be the role for you. 

“We are uniquely positioned at the intersection of technology and talent to drive true reinvention and value for our clients.”-Karalee Close - Global Lead - Talent & Organisation

In this role you will:


Challenge our clients to think differently in how they can ensure they power their people today and ready them for tomorrow with the right skills and capabilities, e,g. by supporting clients to transition to become a Skills Based Organisation (SBO), fostering a more adaptable, efficient, and innovative workforce with greater internal mobility
Lead global delivery teams to deliver workforce strategy and transformation, talent strategy, learning, and reskilling projects at our core clients 
Own client relationships and help to lead our clients to deliver leading Talent Transformation initiatives. 
Empower Analysts and Consultants to deliver at their full potential through coaching, mentoring and people leadership. 
Help to grow Talent Transformation by getting involved in sales processes, including contributing to bid submissions and client presentations. 
Understand how digital and AI are impacting the workforce and how required transformational change will mean new skills and roles to tap future value 
Support organisations to understand the skills they have, the skills they need and how best to address their skill gaps 
Deliver Talent, learning and reskilling strategies and projects to build the right capability for our clients 
Support client to future proof their workforce planning through Strategic Workforce Planning to support the alignment of an organisation's workforce with its business goals by ensuring they have the right people, with the right skills, in the right roles, at the right time to meet their future strategic needs
Support clients to rethink ways of working and the behaviours needed to equip their teams to deliver results quickly 
Supporting complex and large-scale Technology transformation programmes to implement an impactful learning and skilling experience 
Help clients to build a Skills Architecture, to define, map, and manage its workforce's skill landscape, connecting them to roles, career paths, and business goals. The provides clients with actionable intelligence for strategic workforce planning, talent mobility, and aligns the workforce with business needs
Be versed on Technology that underpins Talent engagements (LXP, LMS, etc.), to be able to advise clients on appropriate tooling
Support the growth of the Talent & Skilling consulting practice through innovation, capability growth, thought leadership, and market eminence 
Support in creating market relevant Talent & Skilling points of views, blogs and offerings to create market eminence for Accenture’s Talent consulting and overall T&O.
Experience delivering talent, learning, skills or workforce transformation for Health and/or Public Sector clients (e.g., NHS, DHSC/ALBs, local government, blue-light)
Familiarity with public sector governance and assurance expectations, including auditability and delivery in regulated environments
Awareness of UK information governance and data protection requirements when working with sensitive personal data
Existing UK government security clearance (e.g., BPSS or SC), or prior experience working in clearance-required environments




Talent Transformation Manager - Security Clearance Required

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