Director, Workforce & Organisational Transformation

Alvarez & Marsal; Sydney; On-site; AUD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Alvarez & Marsal in Sydney is seeking a Director in our Workforce & Organisation Transformation practice. You will advise senior executives, originate and lead major transformation engagements, and build trusted client relationships across strategy, organisation design, workforce transformation, change and emerging AI capabilities.

Your engagements will range from enterprise workforce strategy for an AI-enabled future to redesigning operating models, organisation structures and helping thousands

Qualifications

• Significant experience in management consulting or advisory environments with senior stakeholder relationships.
• Strong problem solving and analytical capability; ability to turn complexity into a compelling story.
• Confidence facilitating executive conversations and challenging assumptions.
• Bias toward practical outcomes; able to move between strategy and implementation.
• Deep expertise across workforce transformation, organisation design, change management, and AI-enabled business.

Responsibilities

• Organisational design and operating model design; translate strategy into future models, roles, governance and responsibilities.
• AI-enabled workforce transformation; identify how activities and skills will change and where new human+AI work creates value.
• Change, adoption and transformation; deliver measurable changes in behaviour and performance.
• Client and engagement leadership; manage complex, multidisciplinary engagements and senior stakeholders.
• Build the market; originate opportunities and develop propositions for workforce transformation.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Executive facilitation

Practical outcomes focus

Strategy to implementation

Organisational transformation

Operating model design

Workforce transformation

Change management

AI-enabled business

Job description

Description

About Alvarez & Marsal

Alvarez & Marsal (A&M) is a global consulting firm with entrepreneurial, action and results-oriented professionals. We take a hands‑on approach to solving our clients' problems and assisting them in reaching their potential. Our culture celebrates independent thinkers and doers who positively impact our clients and shape our industry. The collaborative environment and engaging work — guided by A&M's core values of Integrity, Quality, Objectivity, Fun, Personal Reward, and Inclusive Diversity — are why our people love working at A&M.

The Team

As a Director in our Workforce & Organisation Transformation practice, you will advise senior executives, originate and lead major transformation engagements, build trusted client relationships and help grow our consulting business. You will bring together strategy, organisation design, workforce transformation, change and emerging AI capabilities to help clients rethink how their organisations work.

Your engagements could range from defining an enterprise workforce strategy for an AI-enabled future, through to redesigning an operating model or organisation structure, to helping thousands of employees adopt new technology, roles and ways of working. This role is about understanding what performance means for the organisation, and translating that into practical changes to work, workforce, structure, capability and performance.

How you will contribute

Organisation and operating model design

• Translate strategy into practical organisational choices; lead the design of future operating models, organisation structures, roles, accountabilities, governance, decision rights, capabilities and ways of working
• Help clients simplify their organisations, improve effectiveness and create structures capable of adapting as technology and industries continue to evolve

AI-enabled workforce transformation

• Help clients understand how AI, automation and emerging technologies will reshape work across their organisation; lead work that identifies how activities, roles and skills will change and where new human + AI ways of working can create value
• Develop workforce transformation strategies, scenarios and roadmaps that help organisations prepare for the workforce they will need next

Change, adoption and transformation

• Turn strategy and design into sustained organisational change; lead enterprise change strategies, stakeholder alignment, leadership mobilisation, workforce readiness, communications, capability uplift and adoption
• Help clients move beyond implementation to measurable changes in behaviour, performance and business outcomes

Client and engagement leadership

• Lead complex, multidisciplinary consulting engagements from initial diagnosis and strategy through design, implementation and value realisation
• Bring clarity to complex organisational challenges, challenge conventional thinking and translate emerging workforce trends into practical executive decisions; build trusted relationships with C-suite and transformation executives
• Bring together expertise across strategy, workforce, organisation, change, technology and data to solve client problems
• Take accountability for quality, commercial performance, governance and client outcomes

Build the market

• Help shape and grow our Workforce & Organisation Transformation proposition; identify emerging client needs, originate opportunities, develop propositions and lead major pursuits
• Build executive relationships that extend beyond individual projects into long‑term advisory partnerships
• Develop thought leadership, methodologies, tools and intellectual property that strengthen our position in the market and help build exceptional consultants

Qualifications

• Significant experience in management consulting, organisational transformation or a related advisory environment, with demonstrated experience leading complex client engagements and senior stakeholder relationships
• Strong problem solving and analytical capability combined with the ability to turn complexity into a compelling story
• Confidence facilitating difficult executive conversations and challenging established assumptions
• A bias toward practical outcomes; comfortable moving between strategy and implementation, and understands that a beautifully designed operating model has little value if an organisation cannot make it work
• Deep expertise in several of the following: workforce transformation and future of work; organisation and operating model design; strategic workforce planning; organisation effectiveness; change management and adoption; workforce capability and skills transformation; and organisational transformation (AI-enabled business, strategy, turnaround etc.)

Your journey at A&M

We recognize that our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we prioritize an employee experience that fosters each person's unique professional and personal development. Our robust performance development process promotes continuous learning, rewards your contributions, and fosters a culture of meritocracy. With top‑notch training and on-the-job learning opportunities, you can acquire new skills and advance your career.

We prioritize your well‑being, providing benefits and resources to support you on your personal journey. Our people consistently highlight the growth opportunities, our unique, entrepreneurial culture, and the fun we have together as their favorite aspects of working at A&M. The possibilities are endless for high‑performing and passionate professionals.