Director - Talent Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness
EY · Sydney
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Director, Talent Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness
The opportunity
As Director, Talent Strategy and Organisational Effectiveness, you will help shape the future of Talent in EY Oceania. As an embedded member of the Talent Leadership Team, you will lead the development of an integrated Talent strategy and the evolution of our Talent operating model, connecting priorities across portfolios and accelerating the strategic change already underway.
Your initial focus will be to bring dedicated capacity to accelerate work already underway, building on our already high-performing Talent function to advance a more connected, contemporary and sustainable operating model. This includes service delivery, technology, AI and automation, and the experience of our people and leaders. Over time, your remit will expand to enterprise workforce strategy, organisational effectiveness and work design, and workforce intelligence and insights.
Across all areas of the role, you will draw on your expertise to identify and manage risks, shape strategic priorities, and provide evidence-based advice to the Oceania People and Culture Leader, TLT and relevant governance forums.
This role can be performed from any of our EY offices across Australia and New Zealand. Our roles can potentially be adjusted to work flexibly with reduced hours. Please speak with us about potential options.
Your key responsibilities
- Partner with Talent leaders to shape and drive an integrated Oceania Talent strategy and roadmap, maintaining an enterprise view of initiatives, dependencies, sequencing, investment needs, gaps and execution risks to support collective TLT decisions.
- Partner with and provide strategic advice to key internal stakeholders including Talent, Global and Technology teams to align the Oceania Talent operating model with global strategy, platforms and standards, using Oceania insights to shape global solutions.
- Work with Talent leaders and teams to co-design and drive opportunities to simplify, standardise, digitise and better connect Talent services, grounded in employee and leader needs, service requirements, risk and future capability needs.
- Lead the translation of strategy and operating-model choices into practical change, bringing stakeholders and teams with us and ensuring benefits are realised sustainably.
- Identify and highlight external trends, emerging workforce practices and both global and regional developments, to inform and support TLT strategy and prioritisation.
- Define an enterprise workforce-planning framework and skills architecture, including enabling consistent Service Line planning, factoring in workforce demand, capability needs, constraints and dependencies.
- Establish and evolve the enterprise workforce intelligence agenda, bringing together data, business forecasts, labour-market intelligence and emerging trends to identify workforce opportunities, risks and capability gaps, and to provide decision-useful insights and recommendations to senior leaders.
- Assess and advise on how technology, AI, business-model, market and regulatory shifts affect workforce shape, skills and location, and guide choices against inclusion, critical-capability and human-judgement guardrails.
- Build enterprise capability to redesign work holistically across processes, technology, roles, skills and delivery models.
Skills and attributes for success
- Senior experience leading complex enterprise Talent, workforce or functional transformation.
- Strong knowledge of contemporary Talent operating models, workforce strategy, organisational effectiveness and work design, with the ability to translate strategy and emerging technology into practical choices.
- Commercial, financial and technology fluency, including responsible AI, data, risk and human oversight.
- The ability to influence senior stakeholders, lead through ambiguity and build enterprise frameworks without displacing business or portfolio accountability.
- A record of disciplined, technology-enabled delivery through consultation, capability building and benefits realisation.
What we offer you
At EY, we’ll fuel you and your extraordinary talents in a diverse and inclusive culture of globally connected teams. We’re proud to be recognised as the #1 WORK180 Endorsed Employer in the Top 101 Employers for Women 2026. Learn more.
- Career development: At EY, your career is yours to shape! We’ll develop you with future-focused skills and equip you with world-class experiences com/au/careerdevelopment
- Flexible work arrangements: Our flexible work policies empower you to balance your professional and personal life, fostering a culture of trust and autonomy.
- A comprehensive benefits package: From a yearly wellness incentive, to access to additional 8 weeks of flex leave per year, and family-friendly policies, including up to 26 weeks of gender-neutral paid parental leave, we cater to your diverse needs to help you thrive both personally and professionally www.ey.com/au/benefits
- Salary: We offer a competitive salary which is open to negotiation pending on skills and experience.
Acknowledgement of Country
EY acknowledges the Traditional Owners and Custodians of the lands on which EY offices are located around Australia. We pay our respects to their cultures, and to their Elders — past, present, and emerging. Find out more about our vision for reconciliation at ey.com/en_au/careers/indigenous
Inclusiveness is core to who we are and how we work together, driving value for our people and for our business. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment experience for all. We encourage you to share any support and adjustments you need to be your best and participate equitably in our recruitment process. We understand sharing your needs with us can be daunting, so if you have questions before or during your application, we welcome you to get in touch at contactrecruitment@au.ey.com or +61 3 8650 7788 (option 2). Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential.
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