Head of Workforce and Skill Architecture (f/m/d)
Ready to shape the future of People & Organization on a global scale?
As the Head of Workforce & Skill Architecture (f/m/d), you will serve as the strategic architect shaping how work is structured, understood, and deployed across Siemens globally. Your primary objective is to establish a unified "language of work" by evolving an integrated Job-Role-Skill Architecture. This role is pivotal in transitioning Siemens from traditional job-based models to a skills-enabled organization, driving enterprise-wide agility and sustainable competitive advantage.
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You’ll make an impact by
- Architecture Ownership: Design and evolve the Siemens-wide job, role, and skill architecture to ensure consistency across all businesses, functions, and regions.
- Skills Framework Leadership: Build and maintain the Siemens skills framework, including taxonomies, skill clusters, and proficiency models to serve as the "common currency" for talent decisions.
- Global Governance: Establish standards and governance models for the integrated job-role-skill architecture to ensure scalability, data quality, and sustainable lifecycle management.
- Strategic Alignment: Regularly update the architecture based on business strategy and future capability needs, ensuring workforce capabilities match enterprise priorities.
- Digital Integration: Partner with P&O Digitalization to integrate the skill architecture into the P&O tech stack, defining requirements for skill technologies and AI-driven tools.
- Ecosystem Enablement: Act as a central connector for P&O leaders to enable use cases such as Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP), internal mobility, learning, and rewards.
- Impact Measurement: Define and track metrics to demonstrate how skill architecture improves e.g., workforce agility, skill transparency, and internal mobility at scale.
Your success is grounded in
The ideal candidate is a visionary leader who combines deep functional expertise in job and skill architecture with the ability to influence at the highest levels of a global matrix organization.
- Experience & Skills
- Proven leadership in workforce transformation, job architecture, or the implementation of skills-based organizational models with expertise in Job & Role Design, Skill Taxonomy Development and Organizational Development.
- Forward-thinking and strategic leader with a track record of serving as a trusted advisor and business partner.
- Demonstrated ability to move from high-level boardroom strategy to detailed functional implementation and global rollout.
- Deep understanding of how jobs, roles, and skills interconnect to influence organizational agility and business outcomes.
- Familiarity with AI-enabled talent solutions, HR technology platforms, and data-driven talent strategies.
- Proficiency in HR Tech Stack Integration, Data Analytics & Predictive Modeling.
- Ways of working: Exceptional stakeholder management, influencing and analytic problem-solving skills, thriving in intercultural communication across businesses and senior leadership teams.
- Education: Excellent academic background (master’s degree or comparable), ideally in Business Administration, Organizational Development, Human Resources or related fields.
- Languages: Fluency in English is mandatory; proficiency in additional languages would be advantageous given our global context.
You are much more than your qualifications, and we believe in the potential of every single candidate. We look forward to getting to know you!
Our Commitment to Equity and Inclusion in our Diverse Global Workforce.
At Siemens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive workplace that values your skills and provides equitable opportunities to progress. For us, competitiveness goes hand in hand with diverse teams and a shared sense of belonging. Our technology is powered by innovation, fueled by the diverse thinking and the unique merits of our people. We welcome you to bring your authentic self and transform the everyday, for everyone, together with us.
As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds and particularly encourage applications from persons with disabilities.
About us
For more than 175 years, we at Siemens have believed that technology is only as powerful as the people behind it. Our people drive our success. You drive our success. As the global Talent & Organization team, we enable and empower our people, our leaders, and our organization to grow, adapt, and thrive in a world of continuous change. We develop future-ready leaders, talent, and skills, and strengthen organizational effectiveness, while fostering diverse teams, equitable opportunities, and an inclusive workplace. In doing so, we create the conditions for our people – and Siemens – to transform the everyday, for everyone.
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