RIS Talent Solution Architecture Senior Manager

Accountabilities: Act as a senior talent advisor in GCC and BOT pursuits, client workshops, and solution-design discussions. Translate client business strategies, operating models, growth plans, and workforce requirements into integrated talent strategies. Lead the Talent workstream throughout the solution lifecycle, covering talent acquisition, workforce transition, skills assessment, location strategy, compensation, workforce costing, learning, career architecture, retention, mobility, talent branding, governance, and compliance. Design talent models for Build, Operate, and Transfer stages, assessing workforce implications, organizational structures, location choices, and transition approaches. Develop strategies to support rapid workforce scale-up while ensuring long-term capability sustainability and mitigating talent-related risks. Lead talent solution development for RFPs, RFIs, proposals, and strategic client opportunities, including executive presentations, solution reviews, and client clarifications. Analyze talent-market intelligence, including skills availability, talent pools, compensation benchmarks, hiring timelines, attrition, supply and demand, and emerging skills. Turn workforce data and market research into actionable insights and recommendations for clients. Coordinate with Talent Acquisition, HR, Staffing, Learning, Employee Relations, Compliance, Finance, Sales, Delivery, and global teams to deliver cohesive solutions. Facilitate workshops to clarify workforce requirements, assumptions, dependencies, and key decisions, ensuring alignment with commercial models and business cases. Create reusable solution frameworks, benchmarks, playbooks, and other assets, while sharing insights and coaching junior team members. Requirements: Significant experience in HR, Talent Strategy, HR Transformation, Workforce Strategy, GCC/BOT solutioning, or related consulting roles. Strong understanding of the end-to-end talent lifecycle and the ability to integrate multiple HR and talent capabilities into a unified solution. Demonstrated experience developing client-facing solutions, proposals, RFP/RFI responses, or business cases. Strong analytical skills and the ability to interpret talent-market data, workforce trends, and complex workforce requirements. Excellent executive communication, presentation, storytelling, and stakeholder-management skills. Ability to structure complex problems, develop practical recommendations, and collaborate effectively across multidisciplinary and global teams. Experience in GCC establishment, expansion, or transformation, as well as BOT models, is preferred. Background in talent-market research and workforce modelling is an advantage. Understanding of technology, digital, and emerging-skills talent markets is preferred. Benefits: Remote work arrangement. Full-time position. Location: Bengaluru, India. Salary, healthcare coverage, and additional benefits are not specified in the original job description.