Talent Lead - Career and Capability Architecture

Job Description

Job Purpose

Working across all businesses and group functions, the role will drive career visibility, workforce agility, and future-ready development planning through SuccessFactors and strategic business engagement.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and implement behavioral, technical, and leadership competency frameworks aligned to business strategy and evolving roles.
• Lead the transition to skills linked models, embedding competencies into onboarding, performance, learning, and succession.
• Apply structured consulting techniques (e.g., stakeholder interviews, job architecture audits, journey mapping) to co-create role profiles and capability pathways with business units.
• Ensure frameworks are scalable, digitized, and actionable for business leaders in role clarity, workforce planning, and succession.
• Support the Learning & Development team in designing high-potential and leadership development frameworks grounded in leadership competencies.

• Build and maintain a Group-wide skill taxonomy aligned to future capabilities and workforce planning.
• Develop and embed career journeys across businesses and functions.
• Align career architecture with business priorities and integrate career data into platforms (e.g., SuccessFactors) to support mobility, visibility, and engagement.

Change Management & Integration:

• Lead change strategies to drive adoption of career architecture, competency frameworks, and skills-based practices.
• Build change readiness and stakeholder ownership through targeted engagement, enablement, and communication.

• Ensure that new designs including career journeys, competency frameworks, and skill taxonomies are clearly understood, embraced by stakeholders, and consistently applied across all businesses to drive high adoption
• Enable internal talent mobility through the design and rollout of structured development experiences such as job rotations, job enrichment, job shadowing, project-based assignments, and skills-transfer initiatives. Ensure alignment with career pathways and capability building goals

Alignment & Continuous improvement:

• Ensure alignment with workforce strategy, succession planning, and organizational transformation goals.
• Benchmark global best practices in career architecture, skill-based design, and competency modeling.
• Use feedback, analytics, and business insights to continuously evolve the frameworks and tools.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on career and capability design within the broader talent strategy, including the identification and support of organic successors through integrated succession planning.

Job Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• Master's degree or formal certification in career architecture, competency modeling, or skills-based frameworks is an advantage.

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in designing and implementing career architecture, skills taxonomies, and competency frameworks
• Demonstrated success in delivering end-to-end career pathway models and integrating them into talent processes such as onboarding, development, and succession.
• Background in consulting (e.g., Korn Ferry, Mercer, SHL, Big Four)

• Expertise in skills-based talent strategies, career architecture, job architecture, and capability modeling.
• Applied knowledge of recognized frameworks (e.g., Korn Ferry Success Profiles, Mercer Career Levels, SHL) and their adaptation to organizational needs.
• Strong consulting toolkit including structured thinking, facilitation, and cross-functional stakeholder management.
• Ability to translate strategy into scalable, practical frameworks that enhance workforce agility and career visibility.
• Experience embedding talent architecture into platforms such as SAP SuccessFactors or similar systems.