Talent Scout Manager / Associate Manager

**About Accenture**

Talent Scouts proactively identify and solution complex talent needs and facilitate the connection of people to projects on current and future client demand, being an advocate to the client portfolio.
Provide "hands on" support for the more complex needs, creatively connect people to projects.
Build relationships with Project Solution Architects and Talent Futurist to ensure having a good team for the projects.
**Connections**
- Connect people to projects for large/complex client ramp-ups as the business requires (attend key calls, generate metrics, direct Talent Connector team).
- Provide expertise around connecting people to projects for client teams across Service/MU and internal and external sources (internal, recruiting, contractors, up-skilling).
- Provide transparency to opportunities and the demand pipeline and discuss priorities and current/future fulfillment gaps with CG leadership.
- Proactively define, review and validate project sourcing strategies.
- Connect with client teams to provide aggregate client delivery opportunities and risks and help resolve fulfillment of overdue roles.
**Conversations**
- Work closely with the Client Group Lead to verify prioritization of talent needs and ensure early visibility to demand pipeline.
- Collaborate with the Solution Architects and Client Executives to give input to sourcing plans, including guidance on risks and opportunities.
- Actively participate in the New Business Meetings and leverage the information on upcoming demand to proactively inform talent actions.
- Foster a culture of ONE HR Team by collaborating closely with Talent Futurists, HR Partners and sharing expertise and coaching with Talent Connectors to build their decision making, collaboration and problem solving skills.
**Enablement**
- Track unsold and overdue demand.
- Use enterprise insights for deeper analytics.
- Understand open demand and current and future fulfillment gaps.
Basic Qualifications:

- Bachelor´s Degree or equivalent work experience, preferably with a focus in Human Resources Management or Business Management
- Minimum of 8 years of work experience

Preferred Qualifications:

- Prior scheduling experience, consulting experience or Accenture HR experience
- Excel skills

Professional Skills:

- Good communication and relationship management skills
- Capability to understand and balance the impact of scheduling decisions on all of the business outcomes (overdue demand, productivity, labor cost, employee engagement, etc.)
- Capability to understand and appreciate a project's perspective on unfilled demand, and be able to communicate status, challenges, action/support needed from the project, etc.
in order to fill demand
- Ability to remain confident under pressure and work with project teams collaboratively to address issues
- Understanding of financial implications of workforce, level, location, contractor usage, etc.
as they are filling demand.
- Comfortable learning to use reporting tools and conduct analysis
- Effective oral and written communication skills
- Problem solving/research
- Customer service/customer relationship management
- Quality assurance/thoroughness
- Creativity/innovation
- Strong influence, negotiation and selling skills
- Comfortable working in office and virtually
- Collaborative, able to work across organizational entities and to build and maintain strong networks
- Advocate for inclusion and diversity
- Demonstrated leadership in professional setting;
- Demonstrated teamwork and collaboration in a professional setting

You will also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization.
We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster.
Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates.
The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.