Global Jobs and Skills Architecture Consultant - Assistant Director

About the role

The opportunity is to join the Global Jobs & Skills Architecture Lead as a Global Jobs & Skills Architecture Consultant, Assistant Director. This role involves continuously improving and maintaining an enterprise-wide skills taxonomy and job architecture, working closely with senior business leaders, our Skills Management vendors, and with Talent.

Responsibilities

• Maintain the global skills taxonomy at EY, ensuring accuracy and reflecting skills across the EY organization, working with internal business leaders and third parties/partners.
• Lead on skills intelligence using analytics to show how skills attributes, such as skills adjacencies and emerging/declining skills, can support talent activities like career development, resourcing, internal hiring, and workforce planning.
• Identify opportunities to implement agentic AI and similar technologies to improve the development, maintenance, and accessibility of the global skills taxonomy. Develop these in-house or work with appropriate entities to deploy them 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 new implementations.
• Review the skills taxonomy and role/job architecture with required business leaders, ensuring effective oversight of changes and managing downstream impacts effectively (e.g., communications sent to impacted employees, technology platforms updated).
• Build relationships with selected people in the business to ensure the skills taxonomy includes key skills needed for EY's business delivery.
• Anticipate skill gaps or new requirements, liaise with L&D Business Partners to consider how learning and development can address skills gaps or build required capability.
• Contribute to the Global Skills strategy for EY, working with the Talent Strategy and Organization Effectiveness function, and understand how leading skills-centric organizations operate 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.
• Develop proposals for change to enhance Global skills solutions and/or the career experience at EY, ensuring appropriate consultation with Super Regions and SL stakeholders, and preparing business case materials for investment through the Global Talent governance process.

Supervision Responsibilities

• Define and implement effective skills and career solutions within the Global L&D team.
• Provide expert guidance to the wider Learning Impact, Innovation and Skills team on leveraging AI and communicate JSA requirements to enable a more connected agentic system.
• Complete analysis and propose recommendations for change aligned to internal Global Talent governance process when opportunities for change to global solutions are identified.
• Drive continuous improvement of the skills taxonomy and job architecture with a view to external best practices and internal stakeholder requirements.
• Enable the rest of the L&D and Talent teams to use skills as a consistent language and structure across the whole of the L&D ecosystem.
• Manage downstream impacts of changes in skills and/or roles, working with multiple stakeholders across Talent and the business.
• Foster and maintain effective relationships with other Talent Function Leaders to drive consistency and alignment.

Skills and attributes for success

• Strong understanding of skills-based organizations and how skills contribute to high-performing organizations/workforces.
• Advanced understanding of skills structures, their relationship to knowledge and tasks, and how they 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.
• 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 and other relevant HR systems and knowledge tools.