AVP - Talent Management Strategy & Solution Design

Role

Global Head of Talent Management Strategy & Solution Design

Location:

USA - East Coast Base (hybrid working)

Middlemore are retained by a global, Fortune 500 organisation who are seeking a newly defined senior leadership level position in their global Talent Function. This position will report to the SVP of Talent also based in the US.

The Global Head of Talent Management Strategy & Solution Design will architect and modernise the global enterprise talent ecosystem. This role is not a traditional Talent or L&D position — it is a senior, product-driven, organisational effectiveness and HR technology (Workday) role focused on building the future of talent, skills, and workforce capability across a complex multinational.

This leader will play a pivotal role in shaping how the organisation designs performance management, builds future skills, and uses data, AI and Workday-driven intelligence to enable enterprise-wide capability and performance.

The Role

This role will act as the strategic architect for global talent and skills. The remit centres on solving talent and workforce challenges that most organisations have not yet recognised.

You will define what the talent engine must do,
why it matters, and how the experience should work — partnering closely with Technology, People Analytics, Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, Org Effectiveness and HR Business Partners.

Key areas of ownership include:

• Modernising performance management philosophy
  , including AI-enabled performance insights
• Designing global career architecture and pathways
• Building skills frameworks, assessments and intelligence
  , powered by Techwolf
• Designing feedback
  , development and manager-enablement experiences
• Integrating talent processes across TA, Rewards, OE and Analytics
• Enabling workforce planning and future skills readiness
• Driving the roadmap for talent products, data flows and user experience across Workday and adjacent systems

This role builds the “plumbing” of talent — the systems, workflows and data connections that make modern talent experiences possible

• Deliver a global talent product roadmap
• Modernise major products (performance, skills, career, talent planning)
• Stand up and ope rationalise the Techwolf partnership
• Build Infrastructure for skills intelligence and workforce planning
• Improve adoption by simplifying manager and employee experiences
• Apply analytics to measure impact and drive continuous improvement
• Establish strong governance and prioritisation discipline
• Act as a strategic storyteller who uses data to influence senior leaders

This position requires a leader operating at the intersection of Talent, HR Technology, Org Effectiveness and Workforce Analytics — not a generalist HR, HRBP or L&D background.

• Global Talent Management leaders who have modernised performance, engagement, skills or career frameworks through AI, technology and analytics. You'll also need deep experience in shaping talent products and optimising HR tech (ideally Workday) for capability development
• Organisational Development / Organization Effectiveness leaders who connect OD, workforce planning, future skills and data-driven talent decisions
• Talent or OE professionals with experience using vendors such as Workday, Techwolf, Gloat, Eightfold
  , or similar platforms

Required expertise:

• Talent product design, lifecycle management and continuous improvement
• HR Tech integration (partnering with Workday configuration teams; not hands-on config)
• AI and skills-intelligence fluency
• Human-centred design
• Analytics fluency and KPI development
• Org design and workforce planning adjacency
• Change leadership and adoption management

• Strategic clarity and structured thinking
• Ability to simplify complexity
• Enterprise storytelling and influence
• Effective cross-functional collaboration
• Pace, ambition and comfort with ambiguity
• Confidence in making trade-offs and prioritising effectively

• Atlanta would be an ideal base location and will be a strong preference

This is a unique opportunity to build a next-generation talent and skills ecosystem for a global enterprise, shaping how tens of thousands of employees grow, perform and prepare for the future of work. If you're a proven global leader in Talent Management, Organization Effectiveness or Performance Management who excels in complex problem-solving, systems thinking and data-driven design, we would welcome a confidential conversation.

If this is something of interest please do apply! Alternatively, you can reach out directly to  for more information.