Global Skills Architecture Lead

Job Summary

The Global Skills Architecture Lead is responsible for defining, governing, and continuously improving the company’s enterprise-wide skills framework, including taxonomy, ontology, and related technology choices. The role ensures that skills function as a strategic asset supporting talent acquisition, learning, mobility, workforce planning, and AI‑driven opportunities marketplace platforms. It connects skills to the evolution of jobs and tasks in a future of work reshaped by AI and ensures that real business challenges – notably workforce and organizational – 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 a wider scope and team leadership; until then it will partner closely 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; skill 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; 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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