Associate Director — Talent Transformation

Job Description

What You'll Do

Client Leadership & Business Development

• Own a portfolio of client accounts — managing relationships, expanding scope, and ensuring commercial outcomes.
• Lead origination efforts: listen to, identify and shape new opportunities, drive proposals, and close. Comfortable with £2M+ engagements.
• Operate at CHRO and Cross C-suite level. Credible. Provocative. Advisory — not just executional.
• Bring differentiated Accenture propositions to market across our five talent offerings: HR Reinvention, Change & Experience, Talent & Workforce, Enterprise Operating Model, and Leadership Acceleration.
• Represent Accenture externally — at events, in media, in client briefings. You are part of how the market sees us.

Programme Delivery

• Accountable for the quality and commercial performance of multiple concurrent engagements.
• Lead complex, multi-workstream talent transformation programmes — spanning workforce strategy, operating model redesign, HR technology, and agentic AI integration.
• Bring rigour to how we design and govern work. Own the quality of what goes to clients. Intervene when it's not good enough.
• Integrate agentic AI, GenAI, and digital workforce tools into programme design — not as a bolt-on, but as a core design and delivery principle.
• Navigate ambiguity. Most of the interesting problems don't have standard answers.

Practice Building

• Line manage a team of Senior Managers and Managers. Invest in their development as a primary responsibility, not an afterthought.
• Contribute to proposition development — building the IP, frameworks, and assets that differentiate our offer in the market.
• Drive thought leadership: produce points of view, contribute to research, and put Accenture's talent transformation agenda on the map.
• Play an active role in the talent community of 500+ practitioners across UKI — share knowledge, mentor freely, raise the floor and the ceiling.
• Support hiring: identify talent, shape the team, help us build the practice we want to work in.

Internal Leadership

• Contribute to UKI Talent discussions — on strategy, on market positioning, on how we operate.
• Own your own development. Use the tools available — Workforce Navigator, OMOD Advisor, Synops — and develop genuine AI fluency as a leadership capability.
• Be the kind of leader people want to work for. That's not optional at this level.

• Significant consulting experience in talent transformation, workforce strategy, HR operating model design, or a closely adjacent field.
• A track record of leading and originating complex client engagements at a major consulting firm or relevant advisory or client environment.
• Experience working at or alongside C-suite, ideally with CHROs or business transformation leads.
• Evidence of having built and developed high-performing teams.
• Commercial credibility — comfortable owning revenue targets and navigating the commercial dynamics of large programmes.

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com

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