Talent Management – Manager

Key Responsibilities

Skills Strategy & Governance

• Craft and continually refine the firmwide skills taxonomy mapping emerging market demands to PwC capability frameworks.

• Embed strategic workforce planning to anticipate future capability requirements and guide skills investment decisions.

• Establish governance for skills data quality ownership and refresh cycles; champion the skills agenda in leadership forums.

• Partner with Tech and HRIS teams to embed a single skills source of truth across talent systems.

Career Architecture & Mobility

• Design transparent skillsbased career pathways that allow people to pivot upskill and thrive in an uncertain market.

• Launch internal gig/marketplace pilots matching project needs with verified skill profiles to maximise deployment speed and employee growth.

• Coach leaders to integrate skills signals into workforce planning succession and reward decisions.

Assessment Design & Validation

• Lead development of worldclass psychometrically sound assessments (e.g. rolecapability batteries situational judgement tests credentialing rubrics).

• Ensure instruments are fair valid and inclusive leveraging global PwC Assessment Standards.

Learning Culture & Initiatives

• Embed PwC Professional behaviours into everyday ritualse.g. startofmeeting reflections Wins & Learns huddles peer shoutoutsso Inspire Empower Evolve Champion Build and Deliver become habit.

• Deploy (in partnership with the career development team) microlearning nudges (videos quizzes chatbots) that reinforce desired behaviours in the flow of work.

• Cocreate firmwide cultural campaigns (e.g.: skills sprints hackathons) that normalise continuous learning and experimentation.

• Integrate social experiential and stretchassignment learning into onboarding academies and leadership programmes.

• Partner with Inclusion & Wellbeing teams to tailor initiatives across cultures generations and working styles; track adoption and behavioural shift.

Skills Data & Insights

• Build dashboards that surface realtime skills supply vs. demand identifying gaps futurecritical capabilities and reskilling ROI.

• Translate analytics into evidencebased recommendations for investment vendor selection and programme optimization.

• Report regularly to the People Leadership Team highlighting risk areas and success stories.

Stakeholder Engagement & Change

• Influence senior partners to shift from rolebased to skillsbased talent decisions; provide change narratives and toolkits. Equip managers with conversation guides to discuss skills growth and agile career moves.

• Facilitate communities of practice that share success stories peer coaching and emergingskills alerts.