HR Reinvention Industry & Process Advisor Manager, Life Sciences

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

4d•$80,400 - $293,800

About The Position

As an Industry & Process Advisor Manager in HR Reinvention, you will help clients reimagine and transform the HR function to support business growth and productivity while improving how HR operates. The role focuses on redesigning HR to be faster, smarter, and suited to a workforce that combines human capability with AI, enabling HR to spend less time on process and more time delivering business outcomes and employee experiences. You will lead future-state process and AI integration design for client engagements, owning work from assessing market, regulatory, and technology changes through process specification and adoption planning. This includes aligning HR operating models with future-state processes, defining AI and data strategies, designing AI agent experiences that work effectively alongside people, and incorporating Responsible AI considerations. You will also manage client relationships, facilitate workshops, coach junior practitioners, contribute to proposals and business development, and help define or implement HR processes using platforms such as Workday, SuccessFactors, and Oracle Cloud. Travel may vary according to client needs and could be up to 80%.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience in HR process excellence, process redesign, or management consulting focused on HR transformation.
At least 1 year of experience designing future-state HR processes with AI, including operating model changes, adoption approaches, and intelligent automation.
At least 1 year of experience integrating AI and automating HR business process design.
At least 1 year of deep expertise scoping and delivering project work in at least one HR domain, such as HR Process and Service Design, HR Operating Model Design, HR Organizational Design, HR Analytics, or AI-enabled HR delivery.

Nice To Haves

MBA or master's degree.
Experience using AI-assisted tools for benchmarking, analytics, or workshop facilitation.
Applied knowledge of AI Design principles, including specifying AI agent experiences in HR process designs, autonomy levels, escalation triggers, and human-agent handoff quality.
Strong program management and written and verbal communication skills, with experience managing senior stakeholders.
End-to-end process design experience spanning people, agents, and digital systems.
Understanding of core HR processes such as talent acquisition, onboarding, workforce data administration, leave administration, and offboarding.
Familiarity with digital HCM platforms such as Workday, SAP SuccessFactors, Oracle HR, or ServiceNow.
AI and data experience, including solutioning, designing, or delivering AI and data projects in an HR or enterprise context.
Demonstrated ability to lead client discovery workshops and present recommendations to senior HR and business leadership.
Track record building HR benchmarking analyses and change-impact assessments.
Understanding of AI strategy, ecosystem choices, and how AI can transform HR business processes; track record using AI-enabled industry benchmarking analyses and change-impact assessments.
Familiarity with process mining or digital twin approaches for HR process validation.
Experience contributing to business development, proposals, or RFP responses; entrepreneurial ability to originate and shape deals and lead go-to-market activities.
Ability to define how teams work differently because of AI and lead junior practitioners in using AI tools and design principles in HR transformation.
Ability to engage with C-suite stakeholders on HR and people-related topics, with leadership and people skills to build effective teams, foster collaboration and inclusion, and develop strong client relationships.

Responsibilities

Lead future-state HR process specification, AI integration design, operating model changes, and adoption planning for assigned HR functional areas.
Run client discovery workshops and stakeholder interviews; present and defend recommendations to senior HR and business leadership; manage day-to-day client relationships and resolve issues.
Drive benchmarking analysis and change-impact assessments based on knowledge of HR functions across industries.
Facilitate design-thinking sessions and co-creation workshops with cross-functional client teams to reimagine HR processes and employee experiences.
Connect HR operating model design to future-state processes and develop practical transformation approaches aligned with business strategy.
Define and structure HR data and AI strategy, including assessing AI maturity, developing business cases and investment roadmaps, and shaping technology platform blueprints and data strategy.
Embed AX Design principles into HR process specifications, defining AI agent autonomy levels, escalation triggers, and human-agent handoff quality for process steps.
Incorporate Responsible AI considerations into HR transformation visions and roadmaps; identify the people, processes, and technologies needed to develop and operationalize AI solutions in HR.
Support superior employee experiences through seamless, personalized, insight-driven interactions across HR touchpoints and the employee lifecycle.
Build and maintain documented redesign methods and playbook contributions for assigned HR functional process areas.
Contribute to business development by qualifying opportunities and co-authoring proposals; help define and implement HR processes using tools such as Workday, SuccessFactors, and Oracle Cloud.
Coach junior practitioners on HR process redesign methods, AI design principles, domain-specific trend assessment, and operating model design.
Help teams adapt their ways of working with AI and lead junior practitioners in effective use of AI tools and design principles in HR transformation contexts.
Travel according to client needs, potentially up to 80%.