Talent Technology Director

About Us

We are AMS. AMS is a global total workforce solutions firm founded in 1996. We enable organizations to thrive in an age of constant change by building, reshaping, and optimizing workforces. We do this through talent acquisition and contingent workforce management, internal mobility and skills development, and talent and technology advisory services. Our solutions are delivered by our 4500+ experts who live our passionate, bold, and authentic values. The ultimate aim is to help clients around the world, including 100+ blue-chip companies, create workforces that are fluid, resilient, diverse, and differentiated. We call this true workforce dexterity—and we’re here to help you achieve it.

This posting is for future roles with AMS.

The Role

In the Talent Technology Director role, you will lead highly complex technology projects as well as lead the technology workstream for wider transformation and outsourcing programs. Acting as a trusted advisor from the onset of a prospective client through to owning the delivery of advisory projects, you will offer clear recommendations, develop and own timelines, create business cases, develop presentations, facilitate global design workshops, coordinate efforts across multiple technology consultants, and lead the overall delivery of talent technology programs. You may oversee consultants and SME’s supporting large projects or consultants responsible for delivering medium complexity projects.

Key Accountabilities

• You will own delivery of complex technology implementation and optimization projects, including: overall project management, process and technology design, input into change management, business requirements documentation, guiding test plans, integration design, data migration strategy, system training, and scope management
• Lead strategic technology roadmap design. This will include developing findings and recommendations, performing market reviews, and creating implementation plans for execution of roadmap or deployment of tools into an outsourcing program.
• Responsible for scoping technology advisory projects, inclusive of defining timelines, activities, resource requirements, and costs as well as writing proposal content and developing SOW’s
• Identify, quantify, and address any risks and issues to success of the project
• You will have deep knowledge of the talent technology market, continuously building expertise and you will have the ability to articulate a wide variety of talent technologies’ value proposition
• Forecast new projects and ensures utilization is maintained
• Assist with input into external thought leadership efforts, including content development
• Achieve utilization target of at least 70%
• You will collaborate with global team members and peers to provide cross-region program support – ensuring work delivered contributes positive to the commercial and experience success of the client’s talent acquisition function

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Proven track record in scoping, designing, and delivering complex, multi-national, talent technology projects
• Experience in leading talent technology projects and solutions in a fast paced and high performing project environment
• Ability to produce client-ready presentations and business cases with clear messaging and value proposition
• Management of senior relationships with clients, internal teams, and external technology partners
• Experience in leading and delivering projects deploying full lifecycle talent acquisition technologies with custom integrations, including: CRM, ATS, VMS, and point solutions. Example relevant tool experience includes: Avature, Beeline, Cornerstone OnDemand, Eightfold, Enboarder, Fieldglass, HiredScore, HireVue, iCIMS, LiveHire, Paradox, Phenom People, SAP SuccessFactors, SmartRecruiters, TalentNet, Taleo, and Workday
• Experience working with RPO and/or CWS services
• Business case development – proven ability to produce a structured business case

Desirable

• Experience of one or more project management methodologies
• Experience with JIRA or other agile project tracking tools

What You Will Get In Return

• Stretching, challenging work - no work is ever the same!
• Ability to work on a wide variety of projects based upon business need – large global transformation programs, strategic technology advisory projects, and technology optimizations
• Flexible working
• Competitive reward and benefits package
• Work as a part of one of the largest talent technology specialized teams

At AMS, different is not just good, it’s valuable. As a global organization, we recognize the value of different perspectives and experiences in prompting innovation, sparking creativity, and solving problems. As an equal employment opportunity organization, we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment based on race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability and all other categories protected by law.