Deloitte Hiring for Workforce Strategy & Solutions (WSS), Skills Strategy Manager at Newton, Massachusetts Full Time

The Team

With significant shifts in both the environment and our firm strategy, the talent marketplace, as well as the current Deloitte (the firm) workforce are evolving at a critical pace. The firm is embracing this unique opportunity to not only rethink how we deliver our services, but also where and how we source, hire and develop talent, and drive a more differentiated talent experience for our people.

Deloitte’s Workforce Strategy & Solutions (WSS) team collaborates across each of the Deloitte businesses to shape our broader future workforce strategy. We design, develop, and implement ‘future of work’ strategies, human centered end-to-end workforce solutions, and strategic workforce planning initiatives with high-level cross-business and business-specific leadership.

Given the nature of our work, our team culture focuses on nurturing personal growth, learning, and development to elevate everyone’s professional journey. We provide the support and resources our team members need to excel in their roles and thrive, from mentorship and coaching to a strong commitment to well-being, mental and physical health.

The Role

The role aligns to our Skills Strategy and Tech Enablement portfolio, supporting the design and implementation of the firm’s skills strategy. The firm’s skills strategy will impact the future of our business and provide a talent experience our people desire by using skills data to enhance our operational agility, providing trusted and reliable skills data to our partners, and enabling skills-based initiatives focused on improving deployment, workforce planning, advancement opportunities, and much more. This role will help shape how the firm leverages skills data to drive decisions and inform outcomes. You will lead governance structure development efforts to advance our skills strategies and skills-based initiatives. You will establish guidelines to inform how skills strategies and data are used at both a firm and business level. You will also lead and contribute to efforts to define skills-based workforce processes that impact the overall talent experience. And as a strategist and leader, you will help build, grow, and shape skills strategy adoption efforts focused on conceptualizing, cultivating, and curating our work in ways that drive the firm’s continued evolution as a skills-first organization.

The ideal candidate has experience driving strategic transformation initiatives. You will have had experience developing effective governance strategies to drive major talent transformations and/or organization cultural shifts. You will apply a thorough understanding of skills-based principles to help drive how the firm impacts its talent strategies and philosophies. And you will operate autonomously, be extremely proactive in driving results, and have experience working with and influencing executive teams and leaders.

The Work

You will have an opportunity to make a significant impact on our current workforce across the Deloitte US Firms, as well as help shape our workforce of the future. As a Skills Strategy Manager, you will operate as a trusted partner of our Business and Talent leaders, supporting the design of skills-based workforce strategies and solutions that will secure our position as the professional services provider of choice for our clients and employer of choice for our evolving workforce.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Collaborate across Talent, Finance, and our Businesses to build relationships and execute the firmwide skills strategy and how that impacts our future workforce and business needs

• Serve as a resource for firm-wide skills-based and related transformation efforts

• Support skills knowledge building, communication, and adoption through the Skills Community of Practice with the ability to apply those insights to future workforce needs

• Develop insightful, data-driven business cases for how skills strategies and skills data can be used to advance business and enabling area goals and initiatives

• Create impactful presentation materials to support strategic initiatives and decision-making

• Effectively gather and interpret internal/external data trends and insights to understand the changing skills landscape

• Design, define and manage governance approaches for addressing firmwide workforce strategies, firm investments, and long-term planning relating to culture and talent transformation initiatives

• Use a human centered design approach to lead the design and deployment of various talent strategies and solutions, and use data/feedback collected to generate creative, advanced, and high value solutions

• Develop compelling, logically structured presentations and deliverables to communicate workforce planning strategies and progress on transformation initiatives to Talent and Business leaders

• Manage, coach, and support the success of junior team members both formally and informally

• Provide project management expertise

• Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Desired Skills, Experience & Capabilities

• Ability to manage ambiguity and navigate complex business challenges across a matrixed organization

• Strong executive presence and comfort presenting complex ideas to senior business leaders

• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving skills to identify innovative workforce solutions

• Success engaging at senior management levels to impact and influence decision-making

• Ability to identify and articulate how market shifts and talent trends impact business and workforce needs

• Excellent interpersonal, problem solving, and project management skills

• Ability to identify technology solutions and tools to solve business problems, drive desired outcomes and present approaches through data driven storytelling

• Ability to develop and drive governance strategies for data usage, business rule adherence, process adoption, etc.

• Ability to understand, navigate, and influence multiple stakeholder groups at once, both within lines of business and across internal/operational functions

• Ability to establish and lead cross-functional teams and working groups

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required

• 6+ years experience in a Business Strategy, Talent Business Advisor or Business Intelligence role OR in-depth knowledge and experience with change/transformation initiatives

• Demonstrated client service orientation

• Strong consultative skills

• Demonstrated ability to thrive in a dynamic, complex, and matrixed organization

• Calm under pressure and ability to pivot with unexpected challenges

• Strong communications and PowerPoint skills, including an ability to articulate complex messages in clear/concise ways to a variety of audiences/stakeholders

• Demonstrated ability to build strong peer relationships across the Deloitte network

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future

The wage range for this role takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. The disclosed range estimate has not been adjusted for the applicable geographic differential associated with the location at which the position may be filled. At Deloitte, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $100,000 to $200,000.

You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability or protected veteran status, or any other legally protected basis, in accordance with applicable law.