Managing Director - Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation (Americas) - slalom : Job Details

This role is eligible to be located in any location where there is a Slalom office and will be a Managing Director.

Title : Americas - Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation Capability Lead

Who You'll Work With

At Slalom, personal connection meets global scale. Our vision is to enable a world in which everyone loves their work and life. We help organizations of all kinds redefine what's possible, give shape to the future—and get there.This role reports to the America's Capability Leader.

The Transformation Capability helps Slalom's customer organizations fundamentally change and optimize how they deliver value to their customers. As the leader of Workforce Modernization & HR Transformation, you will focus on building Slalom's business in driving more agile, AI-accelerated, and adaptable workforces to meet the evolving demands of the modern economy, aligning talent and culture with business purpose.

You will lead an Americas team that inspires, motivates and aligns organizations to embrace and embed change, through building the mindset, skillsets and toolsets that will power organizations to overcome resistance and generate momentum toward their outcome.

You will build up Slalom's ability to advise, architect and execute transformations specific to the trends and pressures facing customers' HR / People Business functions.

You will grow our ability to support Slalom's customers in transforming their culture an talent.

What You'll Do

This role leads the Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation sub-capability, ensuring alignment with Slalom's objectives and scalable goal achievement. Key responsibilities include collaborating with leadership to adapt offerings to market trends, fostering strong customer relationships, aligning recruitment with demand, and overseeing operations to meet financial and operational targets while promoting a collaborative community.

Capability Vision & Strategy

• Leads the creation and execution of the Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation country strategy, ensuring measured progress towards goals & priorities in alignment to Slalom strategy and Global Capability Strategy.

Go To Market Approach

• Individually, leverages own expertise in Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation to contribute written or verbal thought leadership (e.g. white papers, conference keynotes).
• Partner with Client Outcomes leadership to provide input on external market trends, tie to Slalom Capabilities, and correspondingly form, grow or sunset individual offerings and disciplines.
• Drive Service / Discipline go to market offerings by directing the creation of methods and templates specific to delivering initiatives within scope of Service / Discipline.
• Strategically contributes toward curation and activation of Capability and multi-disciplinary Client Outcomes.

Business Development & Sales

• Individually provides subject matter expertise and solutioning to our most strategic clients
• Creates the leadership team, go to market motion, and accountability where Capability leaders serve markets with the ability to drive and participate in solutioning for defined Capability area, both as Solution Leads and as SMEs.
• Drive overall Capability growth through management of pipeline and direction of business development activities across Capability leadership team.
• Under direction of the Country Capability Lead, own hiring / recruiting strategy for Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation.
• Partners with geographic leadership (Country President, Region Presidents, Market Leaders) to conduct integrated workforce planning and identify skills / expertise needs.
• Align demand to supply to direct recruitment efforts to support growth in areas of demand.

People Development

• Define country level learning & development priorities, and make corresponding professional development investments.
• Provide guidance, coaching, mentoring, and subject matter expertise for direct reports, programmatizing for broader practitioner experience.
• Address people escalations in partnership with People organization, Legal.
• Partner with Talent team to manage the performance feedback process.

Delivery Management (Quality & Client Management)

• Individually builds and maintains key client / partner relationships (“My25”), leveraging Capability expertise to bring client value. Participate in complex deal QA process, demonstrating mastery in project delivery within domain of expertise to ensure successful outcomes. Address delivery escalations in Capability discipline, both internally and client facing.
• Leads the formation of the Country Discipline's AOP per company planning cycle and contribute to Capability level AOP. Manages business to achieve operational goals (e.g. blended utilization, cost to serve). Grows business (resource revenue; resource headcount) in alignment to geo forecasting

What You'll Bring

• Inspirational & Visionary Leadership - Demonstrates forward looking strategic and critical thinking, connection to market trends; rallies team around vision and strategy.
• Vision to Action - Proven ability to get from strategy to action through driving clear plans that deliver accretive financial results.
• Scaled Leadership – Demonstrated experience leading large, scaled and high performing business or capability team.
• Complex Delivery Execution - Experience leading complex Consulting projects, including management of financials and experience in AE roles.
• Domain Expertise - 10+ years delivery experience and relevant certifications in Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation. Seen as a go-to or mentor by team members.
• Innovation - Leads the creation of new offerings, accelerators or thought leadership. Sets their Country's Workforce Modernization + HR Transformation vision and strategy in alignment with the Capability and Slalom strategy and supports teams to align to it.
• Track Record in Sales - Builds a team that is credible and reliable in providing solutioning leadership for pursuits; Maintains advanced / expert mastery in functional / technical roles, seen as SME by others
• 15+ years expertise in consulting clients on organizational effectiveness, workforce transformation, and talent optimization.
• Experience in defining, owning and accomplishing revenue growth targets for a large ($50M+) management consulting business unit.
• An understanding of and experience with the changing workforce landscape in context of Artificial Intelligence, Remote work, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Sustainability.
• Expertise in talent development, HR and / or culture transformation.

Additional

Ability to travel up to 50% of the time.This role will require time in a Slalom office, at client site and ability to work remote, candidates should be comfortable with a hybrid work environment, prioritizing client facing needs as appropriate.

About Us

Slalom is a fiercely human business and technology consulting company that leads with outcomes to bring more value, in all ways, always. From strategy through delivery, our agile teams across 52 offices in 12 countries collaborate with clients to bring powerful customer experiences, innovative ways of working, and new products and services to life. We are trusted by leaders across the Global 1000, many successful enterprise and mid-market companies, and 500+ public sector organizations to improve operations, drive growth, and create value. At Slalom, we believe that together, we can move faster, dream bigger, and build better tomorrows for all.

Compensation and Benefits

Slalom prides itself on helping team members thrive in their work and life. As a result, Slalom is proud to invest in benefits that includemeaningful time off and paid holidays, parental leave, 401(k) with a match, a range of choices for highly subsidized health, dental, & vision coverage, adoption and fertility assistance, and short / long-term disability. We also offer yearly $350 reimbursement account for any well-being-related expenses, as well as discounted home, auto, and pet insurance.

Slalom is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. For this position, the base salary pay range is $240,000 to $384,000. In addition, individuals may be eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.Actual compensation will depend upon an individual's skills, experience, qualifications, location, and other relevant factors. The salary pay range is subject to change and may be modified at any time.

This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

EEO and Accommodations

Slalom is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to inclusion, diversity, and equity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veterans' status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local l[ sub-capability area / discipline ]. Slalom will also consider qualified applications with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. Slalom welcomes and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities. Reasonable accommodations are available for candidates during all aspects of the selection process. Please advise the talent acquisition team if you require an accommodation during the interview process.