Talent Strategy Lead - AI-Driven Transformation

Accenture in South Africa; Midrand; On-site; ZAR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture in South Africa is seeking a client-facing Manager in the People & Organisation practice. You will lead workstreams and client relationships, while supporting senior colleagues on larger engagements, delivering with rigour and care across HR transformation, operating models and talent strategies.

You will shape client engagements, build credible relationships with senior stakeholders, and translate deep expertise into outcomes that matter in a fast-changing, AI-enabled environment.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in talent, human capital, organisational design, or change and learning with client-facing or consulting exposure.
• Experience managing workstreams or project components in complex, multi-stakeholder environments.
• Demonstrated ability to produce polished, client-ready deliverables and present findings with confidence to senior audiences.
• Exposure to AI, digital transformation, or future-of-work agendas is advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day client engagements on assigned workstreams, serving as a key point of contact for senior client stakeholders.
• Plan and contribute to client workshops, discovery sessions, and working group meetings translating insights into structured recommendations.
• Prepare and present client-ready outputs including frameworks, diagnostic findings, design options, and implementation roadmaps.
• Support Senior Managers and Directors in managing overall engagement delivery, contributing to quality assurance and milestone tracking.
• Build rapport and credibility with mid-to-senior client stakeholders, laying the groundwork for long-term advisory relationships.
• Target operating model design engagements from current-state diagnostics through to future-state design and implementation roadmaps.
• Contribute to organisational structures, spans and layers, role architecture, and governance frameworks that align to their strategic direction.
• Produce high-quality deliverables including design principles, Target Operating Model blueprints, and role accountability matrices.
• Translate operating model decisions into tangible operational processes — ensuring new ways of working are practical, embedded, and measurable.
• Help shape a clients HR transformation journey by defining their future HR operating model, service delivery approach, organisation structure and capabilities required to support the business strategy.
• Understand the end-to-end HR capability landscape by bringing strong knowledge across areas such as talent, workforce planning, learning, performance, rewards, employee experience, HR operations and people analytics.
• Connect HR operating model to technology by understanding how platforms such as Workday and SAP SuccessFactors and emerging AI solutions to enable HR processes, employee experience, automation and data-driven decision-making.
• Co-design enterprise talent strategies with clients — covering workforce planning, talent segmentation, critical role identification, and capability frameworks.
• Contribute to talent review and calibration processes, supporting clients to make better, more consistent decisions about their people.
• Drive change programmes by shaping and driving the change strategy for large transformations, covering stakeholder alignment, change impact, adoption, communications and business readiness.
• Design learning and capability solutions, translating new processes, technologies and ways of working into practical learning journeys, role-based training, leadership development and on-the-job enablement.
• Support business development and client relationships, identifying opportunities, shape proposals, contribute to pitches and position change and learning as a critical part of transformation outcomes.
• Build client relationships, translate deep expertise into outcomes that matter.

Job description

Accenture in South Africa is seeking a client-facing Manager in the People & Organisation practice. You will lead workstreams and client relationships, while supporting senior colleagues on larger engagements, delivering with rigour and care across HR transformation, operating models and talent strategies.

You will shape client engagements, build credible relationships with senior stakeholders, and translate deep expertise into outcomes that matter in a fast-changing, AI-enabled environment.