Workforce Transformation Strategy Lead

ACCENTURE PTE LTD; Singapore; On-site; SGD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture Pte. Ltd. in Singapore is seeking a Manager to lead Talent Reinvention engagements with C-suite partners, reimagining work through skills-based models and AI-enabled workforce design.

You will drive strategic workforce planning, analytics, and HR technology integration, guiding proposals, cross‑functional teams, and client relationships to improve productivity, agility, and total workforce cost across Southeast Asia.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in workforce strategy or talent transformation with leadership experience.
• Fluency in skills-based org design, planning, analytics, or AI-driven workforce change.
• Shaping strategic decisions with C-suite and CHRO stakeholders.
• Strong commercial instincts: pipelines, proposals, and client growth.
• Experience leading geographically distributed cross-functional teams.
• Executive communication and storytelling skills for complex findings.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, HR, Economics, or related field.

Responsibilities

• Lead Talent & Workforce program engagements covering planning and analytics.
• Advise C-suite and CHROs on replacing job-based models with skills-based insights.
• Apply Talent Navigator and assets to enable planning, mobility, and cost optimization.
• Diagnose why AI investments underperform and design workforce interventions.
• Design roadmaps to improve speed-to-productivity, retention, and cost.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across strategy, HR tech, data, and change.
• Drive business development, shaping proposals and client relationships in SEA.
• Develop Talent & Workforce offering with IP and thought leadership.

Skills

Workforce strategy

Management consulting

Talent transformation

Executive stakeholder management

AI-driven workforce

Skills-based org design

Workforce analytics

Strategic storytelling

Business development

Proposal leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Client relations

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business

Bachelor's degree in HR

Bachelor's degree in Economics

MBA or related degree preferred

Tools

Talent Navigator

HR technology ecosystems

Job description

As a Manager within Accenture's Talent Reinvention Partner practice, you will help C-suite leaders and CHROs fundamentally reimagine how their workforce creates value in an AI-driven world. You will lead engagements that replace rigid, job-based models with task-level, skills-based approaches - deploying people and AI where they generate the most impact, while improving talent agility, workforce experience, productivity, and cost. You will work directly with senior client stakeholders to answer the defining workforce questions of the moment: why AI investments aren't translating into productivity gains, how to build a workforce that adapts as fast as the business requires, and how to make smarter, data-driven decisions about talent deployment and cost.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as program lead for Talent & Workforce programs - covering strategic workforce planning, skills-based organization design, workforce analytics, and human + AI workforce transformation.
• Advise C-suite and CHRO clients on replacing job-based models with task- and skills-level insights that align workforce capacity to evolving work and AI-driven business priorities.
• Apply Accenture's proprietary Talent Navigator and workforce assets to enable continuous workforce planning, targeted talent mobility, and cost optimization as business needs shift.
• Diagnose why AI and automation investments are not scaling or delivering expected productivity ROI - and design the workforce interventions required to close the gap.
• Design and deliver workforce transformation roadmaps that structurally improve speed-to-productivity, retention, skills currency, and total workforce cost.
• Lead multidisciplinary teams across strategy, talent, HR technology, data, learning and change - translating complex workforce analytics into clear executive decisions.
• Drive business development: identify opportunities, shape proposals, and build long-term client relationships that expand the practice's footprint across Southeast Asia.
• Contribute to the development of the Talent &Workforce offering and capability - building IP, thought leadership, and team capability within the Talent Reinvention practice.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in workforce strategy, management consulting, or talent transformation - with a track record of leading complex, executive-level engagements.
• Deep fluency in skills-based organization design, strategic workforce planning, workforce analytics, or AI-driven workforce transformation.
• Demonstrated ability to shape strategic decisions with C-suite and CHRO stakeholders, and to translate workforce data into business-level recommendations.
• Strong commercial instincts: experience building pipelines, leading proposals, and growing client accounts in a consulting or professional services context.
• Proven capability leading geographically distributed, cross-functional teams in ambiguous, fast-moving client environments.
• Exceptional executive communication and storytelling skills - comfortable presenting complex workforce findings in a way that drives decisions.
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Economics, Organizational Psychology, or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with AI-enabled workforce platforms, skills intelligence tools, or HR technology ecosystems (including familiarity with tools like Talent Navigator or equivalent).
• Exposure to Southeast Asian labor markets -understanding the talent dynamics, regulatory environment, and workforce culture across Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and/or Indonesia.
• Experience building or scaling a consulting offering, capability, or practice - including IP development and go-to-market positioning.
• Advanced degree (MBA, Master's in HR, Organizational Psychology, or equivalent) preferred.