Workforce Strategy Lead

About the role

PwC Australia is looking for a Workforce Strategy Lead to join its Future Workforce Centre of Excellence in Sydney. The role brings together experience in workforce strategy, operating model design and organisational transformation to lead and evolve the firm's approach to workforce planning and future-state design, partnering with senior leaders across Lines of Service and enabling functions.

Key responsibilities

• Lead and manage the Strategic Workforce Planning team, working with Line of Service leaders to turn business strategy, client demand and disruption into clear workforce priorities and actions.
• Translate workforce plans into transformation, identifying where shifts in work, roles, skills, capacity or composition need redesign.
• Lead the workforce design of priority firmwide transformation initiatives, assessing impacts and designing future-state workforce and operating model solutions.
• Apply work and task analysis to identify how AI, technology and new delivery models change roles, skills, structures and ways of working.
• Design future workforce and operating models, including role and team design, organisational structure, workforce composition, sourcing and location choices, and transition requirements.
• Develop practical transformation roadmaps and interventions, working with business owners and enabling functions on implementation.
• Partner across the CoE, particularly Skills, Workforce Intelligence and One Firm Workforce, so decisions are informed by skills and data.
• Support the Skills-enabled transformation, including change and activation design, operating model shifts and skills frameworks for buy/build strategies.
• Act as the 2iC to the Head of Future Workforce, supporting prioritisation and delivery of the CoE agenda and representing the CoE with senior stakeholders.
• Evolving the firm's workforce strategy capability by codifying methodologies, tools, playbooks and lessons learned.

Required profile

• Demonstrated experience in workforce strategy, strategic workforce planning, workforce transformation, operating model design or organisation design.
• Experience leading complex workforce or organisational transformation initiatives from diagnosis through to future-state design and implementation planning.
• Strong experience partnering with senior leaders and leadership teams.
• Experience leading and developing teams, managing competing priorities across multiple engagements.
• Experience using workforce data, insights and scenario analysis for strategic decisions.
• Preferred: understanding of how AI and changing delivery models reshape work, experience in a complex, matrixed or professional services environment, and a relevant tertiary qualification in business, strategy, HR, organisational design or workforce planning.

What we offer

• Leadership development programs and executive coaching.
• A parental leave policy of up to 26 weeks for caregivers.
• Flexibility to choose when, where and how you work.
• A culture that values diverse perspectives, inclusion and diversity, and First Nations Prosperity.