Workforce Consulting Director

Grant Thornton is seeking an experienced Director to join our Workforce Transformation practice. This leader will bring strong end-to-end business strategy experience and the ability to connect enterprise ambition to executable transformation. The role requires a distinctive point of view, deep subject-matter expertise, and the consulting judgment to translate complex business challenges into integrated strategies, operating models, AI-enabled solutions and workforce capabilities. This leader will guide clients across designing and workforce reinvention programs from strategy and value case through implementation, adoption, and sustained value realization.

As a Workforce AI Strategy Director you will translate business objectives into end-to-end solutions across HR Function governance - defining value-first approaches and implementation roadmaps; guiding data/analytics choices, process modernization, and people enablement (op model and governance. The ideal candidate brings the right blend of hands-on AI experience and expertise and broad consulting leadership. They have strong communication strengths with executives and technical teams, experience designing AI solutions that integrate with enterprise systems, and a pragmatic approach to tradeoffs between value vs. readiness vs. effort.

Your day-to-day may include:

• Originate, shape, and sell complex AI (op model, governance, skills) transformation programs, building qualified pipeline from existing relationships, executive networks, market insight, and account-based opportunity development.
• Advise CFOs, COOs, CHROs, CIOs, and business unit leaders on enterprise strategy, value creation, operating model design, technology modernization, and execution risk, bringing a clear point of view grounded in deep functional, industry, and developing their AI operating model and governance.
• Advise clients on strategy to execution for AI forward organizational data strategy and people analytics, and operating model design; shaping workforce planning programs that helps build and maintain an inclusive, diverse, and sustainable global workforce
• Serve as an executive sponsor and trusted advisor, sustaining relationships beyond individual engagements and identifying follow-on opportunities across the transformation lifecycle.
• Lead pursuit strategy, qualification, solution design, teaming, commercial shaping, pricing, proposal development, oral presentations, and contract negotiations.
• Advise clients on AI and workforce transformation, including AI-driven organizational operating models, workforce implications, role and skill redesign, adoption, and responsible deployment within HR.
• Define HR data, advanced analytics, and organizational reporting strategies, including data architecture, metrics, governance, stewardship, privacy, quality, and decision rights. Lead the design and implementation of scalable people analytics dashboards and dynamic reporting products that provide executives and people leaders with timely, role-based insights into workforce capacity, skills, talent, performance, retention, recruiting, succession, employee experience, and organizational health.
• Lead the development and application of data science models, people analytics dashboards, and decision-support products for workforce planning, recruiting, performance, retention, leadership, succession, and employee experience use cases. Translate analytical findings into clear business implications, recommended actions, and measurable outcomes for executives and people leaders.
• Build dynamic people-leader reporting that combines curated workforce data, interactive visualizations, drill-down analysis, alerts, benchmarks, and forward-looking indicators. Partner with HR, business, finance, data, and technology leaders to define decision use cases, establish metric definitions, enable appropriate role-based access, and embed analytics into recurring talent and business operating rhythms.
• Coach and mentor client and consulting leaders, facilitate executive workshops, and communicate complex transformation, AI, workforce, and analytics topics through compelling public speaking and executive storytelling.
• Create reusable methods, accelerators, points of view, and market offerings that strengthen the firm’s Workforce Transformation capabilities
• Lead, coach, and develop consulting teams; set clear expectations; provide timely feedback; and foster an inclusive, collaborative, high-performance culture.
• Monitor program economics, delivery quality, client satisfaction, scope, risk, and outcomes, taking decisive action when performance deviates from plan.
• Represent the firm externally through thought leadership, industry events, executive roundtables, and alliance activities.
• Other duties as assigned

You have the following technical skills and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organizational Development, or a related field.
• Master’s degree (MBA, MSOD, MHR) strongly preferred.
• HR or change-related certification (e.g., SHRM SCP, SPHR, Prosci)
• 12+ years in HR transformation and consulting, with a proven track record of managing large projects and teams.
• Experience across the full transformation lifecycle, from strategy and business case through design, implementation, deployment, stabilization, value realization, and continuous improvement.
• Proven ability to originate and expand consulting opportunities, develop executive-level value propositions, and convert client needs into complex transformation programs.
• Established relationships with senior executives and a track record of becoming a trusted advisor who generates repeat work and account growth.
• Strong understanding of transformation governance, program and portfolio management, design authority, risk and issue management, benefits realization, and executive decision support.
• Demonstrated experience shaping AI and workforce transformation strategies, including AI-driven organizational operating models and responsible AI practices in HR.
• Expertise in skills-based workforce planning, workforce analytics, organizational reporting, and the translation of business strategy into workforce demand, supply, capability, and investment decisions.
• Experience establishing HR data strategy and governance, including data ownership, stewardship, taxonomy, quality, privacy, access, controls, and analytics enablement.
• Hands-on or leadership experience designing and delivering data science models, people analytics dashboards, and dynamic reporting products, with the ability to define decision use cases, document business and data requirements, establish workforce metrics and semantic definitions, evaluate model performance, guide product development, and drive sustained adoption by executives and people leaders.
• Depth in HR and talent analytics, including recruitment analytics, employee listening, performance management, leadership development, succession planning, recruitment and selection, and organizational culture.
• Knowledge of assessment and survey design, including reliability, validity, fairness, adverse impact, documentation, and relevant legal and professional standards.
• Understanding of HR technology platforms, HR information systems, enterprise data environments, business-intelligence tools, and visualization platforms, with the ability to integrate HCM, analytics, data products, and employee-experience technologies into a coherent architecture that supports secure, scalable, self-service workforce reporting.
• Have excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Can travel as needed. Expected travel is up to 40%

The base salary range for this position is between $276,852 and $300,926. Placement within the pay range is at Grant Thornton’s discretion, and it is based on multiple factors, including but not limited to, job -related knowledge/skills, experience, business needs, progression within the role, geographic location, and internal equity. At Grant Thornton, compensation decisions are dependent upon the facts and circumstances of each position and candidate.

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