Workforce Transformation Consultant (Skills & Capability) - Contract/ Freelance

Requirements

• Proven experience designing skills taxonomies, capability frameworks or competency frameworksMust
• Strong analytical and structuring skills to translate complex organisational information into clear frameworksMust
• Confident stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills with senior client stakeholdersMust
• Working familiarity with established competency or capability methodologiesMust
• Strong written and visual communication skills producing polished client-ready documentationMust
• Executive presence with excellent communication and influencing skillsMust
• Comfortable engaging stakeholders from C-suite through to C-suite-2Must
• Self-directed and comfortable working in remote distributed environmentMust
• Consultative, insight-led trusted advisor approachMust
• Comfortable with regional client travel within Europe and Middle EastMust
• Experience within workforce transformation, HR or talent consulting practice
• Direct exposure to skills-based organisation SBO transformation programmes
• Familiarity with HR technology or skills ontology platforms such as Eightfold, Gloat, Degreed or Workday Skills Cloud

What you'll do

• Design and build skills taxonomies aligned to business and job architecture
• Develop capability and competency frameworks and translate them into career pathways
• Conduct skills gap analysis and workforce capability assessments
• Facilitate workshops and working sessions with client stakeholders
• Produce client-ready deliverables including frameworks, skills matrices and career maps
• Partner with stakeholders to translate business and workforce strategy into skills-based structures
• Advise on framework integration with talent processes such as learning, recruitment, succession planning and reward

About the role

Workforce Transformation Consultant | Talent/ Learning Consulting | Contractor/ Freelance Opportunity | Remote - EMEA | Open to Europe & Middle East Candidates Only Location: Remote with visits to client sites when required - Europe & Middle East Work Model: Default working hours are 9am - 5pm, Monday - Friday with flexibility to meet client needs and regional client travel when required The Opportunity We are seeking a Workforce Transformation Consultants to join Infopro Learning 's workforce transformation advisory practice across Europe and the Middle East, specialising in skills taxonomy, capability frameworks and career pathways. The successful candidates will work closely with client stakeholders to translate business and workforce strategy into skills-based structures, helping organisations understand their current capability, close skills gaps, and build practical frameworks that support the move towards a skills-based way of working. What You'll Do • Design and build skills taxonomies aligned to a client's business and job architecture. • Develop capability and competency frameworks, and translate them into practical career pathways that employees and managers can act on. • Partner with client stakeholders to translate business and workforce strategy into skills-based structures and language. • Conduct skills gap analysis and workforce capability assessments to inform client decision-making. • Support clients moving towards a skills-based organisation model, advising on the practical steps of that transition. • Produce clear, client-ready deliverables, including frameworks, skills matrices and career maps that stand up to senior stakeholder scrutiny. • Advise on how frameworks integrate into existing talent processes such as learning, recruitment, succession planning and reward. • Facilitate workshops and working sessions with client stakeholders to validate and refine frameworks collaboratively. • Flex across multiple client engagements as part of Infopro's wider workforce transformation advisory offering. Requirements What You Bring Must have’s • Proven experience designing skills taxonomies, capability or competency frameworks, or career pathways within a corporate or consulting environment. • Strong analytical and structuring skills, able to translate complex organisational information into clear, usable frameworks. • Confident stakeholder engagement and facilitation skills, comfortable running workshops with senior client stakeholders. • Working familiarity with established competency or capability methodologies • Strong written and visual communication skills, able to produce polished, client-ready documentation. Core Competencies • Comfortable and credible engaging stakeholders from C-suite through to C-suite-2 • Consultative, insight-led trusted advisor approach • Executive presence with excellent communication and influencing skills • Self-directed and comfortable working in a remote, distributed environment Nice to have’s • Experience within a workforce transformation, HR or talent consulting practice, whether boutique or large consultancy. • Direct exposure to skills-based organisation (SBO) transformation programmes. • Familiarity with HR technology or skills ontology platforms, such as Eightfold, Gloat, Degreed or Workday Skills Cloud. What Makes This Role Different This role suits an experienced workforce or talent consultant who enjoys the structuring and problem-solving side of the work as much as the client-facing side. The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between detailed analytical work and confident senior stakeholder engagement, and is equally at home building a framework from scratch as refining one that already exists. Someone who is also happy to travel is also essential! Highlights Workforce Transformation Consultant. Design skills taxonomies, build capability frameworks, and turn workforce strategy into practical career pathways for enterprise clients across EMEA. Originally posted on Himalayas