Global Skills Architecture Lead

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Job summary:

The Global Skills Architecture Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the company's enterprise-wide skills framework, including the taxonomy, ontology, and related technology choices. The role ensures that skills function as a strategic asset supporting talent acquisition, learning, mobility, workforce planning, and AIdriven opportunities marketplace platforms. It also connects skills to the evolution of jobs and tasks in a future of work reshaped by AI. Finally, the role ensures that real business challenges - notably workforce and organizational ones - are addressed by practical and measurable solutions.

The role reports to the Head of People Grow with a dotted line to the Head of Talent Acquisition and maintains strong partnerships with HR Tech & Experience and Enterprise Data/AI teams.

The role may develop in the future to include wider scope and team leadership. Until then the role will have a strong partnership with the Job architecture team.

Roles and responsibilities:

• Define and evolve a clear, enterprise-wide skills framework that becomes the common language of capabilities across the company.
• Ensure skills are tightly connected to business priorities, future workforce needs, and HR processes.
• Translate strategic capability needs into scalable, practical solutions that enable hiring, development, and mobility.

• Establish robust governance to ensure skills are consistent, high-quality, and globally usable.
• Define clear standards for skill definitions, proficiency levels, and certifications.Shape the skills technology ecosystem across HR platforms, AI tools, and marketplaces.Lead vendor selection and ensure technology serves the enterprise strategy-not the other way round
• Connect skills to the evolution of jobs, tasks, and ways of working.Continuously monitor external trends and internal needs to identify skill gaps and emerging capabilities.
• Drive alignment between job architecture and skills to ensure both evolve together.
• Enable a dynamic, skills-based marketplace for jobs, learning, career opportunities, etc.Leverage skills insights to power internal mobility, reskilling, and career growth.
• Articulate and measure business value and ROI. Act as the central connector across HR, business leaders and technology teams

Required Experiences & Skills

Proven experience in one or more of the following:

• Talent Acquisition/Management, Learning, Grow
• HR Technology / HRIS, HR platforms and ecosystems
• Knowledge of AI, data models or semantic technologies
• Workforce transformation programs

Skills & Capabilities

• Skills taxonomies and ontologies; Skills inference and adjacency
• Systems thinking and architectural mindset.
• Ability to build and articulate business value/case
• Change management and stakeholder management
• Ability to operate at both executive strategy level and Hands-on design level
• Data analytics skills. An understanding of how jobs, tasks, deliverables and skills interconnect

Personal Attributes

• High intellectual rigor and conceptual clarity, comfortable with ambiguity and passionate about emerging domains
• Strong influencing and storytelling capability

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