Global Jobs and Skills Architecture Consultant - Assistant Director

About the role

The opportunity involves working for the Global Jobs & Skills Architecture Lead to continuously improve and maintain an enterprise-wide skills taxonomy and job architecture. This role will work closely with senior business leaders, our Skills Management vendors, and with Talent. Responsibilities include maintaining the global skills taxonomy, leading on skills intelligence, identifying opportunities for AI implementation, and working with Talent functions at global and regional levels.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for maintaining the global skills taxonomy at EY. Ensure the skills taxonomy is accurate and maintained to reflect the skills across the EY organization, working with internal business leaders and third parties/partners. Ensure these skills are reflected in global technology platforms to support additional Talent and business processes.
• Lead on skills intelligence utilizing analytics to show how skills attributes, for example skills adjacencies, emerging and declining skills can support key talent activities such as career development, resourcing, internal hiring and workforce planning.
• Identify opportunities to where agentic AI and similar technologies can be implemented to improve the development, maintenance and accessibility of the global skills taxonomy. Wherever possible, developing these in-house or working with appropriate entities to deploy these at a global scale.
• Work closely with the wider skills transformation project team, including AI Innovation and Enterprise Technology to communicate JSA requirements and embed these within the new implementations.
• Work to an agreed governance cycle to review the skills taxonomy and role/job architecture with the required business leaders. Ensure effective review and oversight of changes to these solutions, ensuring that the downstream impacts of these changes are considered and managed effectively (e.g. communications sent out to impacted employees, technology platforms updated).
• Build relationships with selected people in the business to ensure that the skills taxonomy includes key skills needed for the delivery of EY business.
• Anticipate skill gaps or new requirements, and where business leaders highlight key skills to be developed, liaise with L&D Business Partners to consider how learning and development can help address skills gaps or build required capability.
• Contribute to the Global Skills strategy for EY, working with the Talent Strategy and Organization Effectiveness function. Understand how leading skills-centric organizations operate and what is required at EY to bring visibility and knowledge of skills, and how skills can be used to support effective learning, recruitment, workforce planning and resource management.
• Promote the importance of skills to the EY organization and act as a leading voice and expert on skills and careers across the Talent function and with the business (as required)
• As instructed by the Skills & Career Lead, develop proposals for change to enhance Global skills solutions and/or the career experience at EY. Ensure that appropriate consultation is done with Super Regions and SL stakeholders, and ensure appropriate business case materials are prepared to secure investment through the Global Talent governance process

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong understanding of skills-based organizations and how skills can contribute to a high performing organizations/workforce
• Knowledge of AI, automation and agentic capabilities relevant to skills inference, tagging, matching, governance and user experience within Talent and L&D contexts
• Advanced understanding of the use and types of skills structures including their relationship to knowledge and tasks. Most importantly how skills can be used within talent functions for improving employee experience and business success
• Knowledge of the way EY Talent operates, the Talent operating model and organization structure
• Deep knowledge of the L&D function service delivery model and ways of working, including: function processes, technology / systems and the organization structure and roles, especially for Skills & Career solutions
• Excellent analysis and problem-solving skills to identify issues and recommend change
• Strong organizational skills, ability to set priorities and work to deadlines
• Proactive and pragmatic style, agile mindset and approach to deliver global operations and enablement services under cost and time pressures
• Strong influencing and communication skills. Maturity in approach to interact with: Global and Super Region Talent leaders
• Ability to use Global Technology as well as other relevant HR systems and knowledge tools

Job Requirements

• Education: Educated to degree level in a related discipline
• Experience: Demonstrable experience in a closely related Talent or Consulting role considering skills strategy, solutions and performance; Demonstrable experience of developing requirements, options and recommendations for technology-enabled Talent solutions; Demonstrable experience of identifying, developing and deploying agentic AI at scale; Demonstrable experience of operating at a senior level, building and maintaining relationships with senior business and Talent leaders at Global and Region levels; Demonstrable experience of having managed a team to implement quality work at pace and of resolving people issues that may arise; Demonstrable experience of assessing and scoping potential project/change initiatives and development of associated business cases; Demonstrable experience of thinking and acting strategically and commercially in pursuit of the wider business objectives; Demonstrable experience of working in fast-paced, demanding environment to deliver required results