Workforce & Skills Architecture Lead

Company

Our client is a UK-based food manufacturer operating across a complex, multi-site environment. With a strong values-led culture and a clear people strategy, they are investing heavily in workforce capability, skills frameworks, and learning technology to support compliance, career development, and long-term growth.

Role

This interim Workforce & Skills Architecture Lead will play a key role in shaping and embedding job role frameworks and career pathways across both operational and professional populations. Working closely with senior stakeholders, L&D, and the wider People Team, you will ensure that skills, roles, and learning are aligned, governed, and supported by robust systems and data.

Key responsibilities include:

• Designing and embedding job role frameworks, skills grades, and career pathways across the organisation
• Partnering with L&D to map training and development against role and skills frameworks
• Facilitating workshops and discussions with senior leaders to align roles, content, and governance
• Configuring and maintaining frameworks, workflows, and data within learning and people systems
• Supporting the implementation of a new learning technology platform
• Producing guidance, toolkits, documentation, and training to drive adoption and consistency
• Acting as line manager to a Workforce & Skills Architecture Analyst
• Providing commercially astute advice to leaders and managers on people, skills, and workforce design

Person

The successful candidate will bring a strong blend of people strategy, learning, systems, and stakeholder engagement experience, and be comfortable operating at pace in a complex environment.

You will ideally have:

• Proven experience in workforce architecture, job frameworks, skills frameworks, or organisation design
• Strong stakeholder management skills, including influencing senior leaders
• Experience working closely with L&D and learning systems
• Hands-on experience configuring and maintaining HR or learning technology platforms
• Confidence facilitating workshops and delivering training
• Strong data, governance, and compliance awareness (including GDPR)
• People management experience

Rewards

• High-impact interim role within a well-known UK organisation
• Opportunity to shape long-term workforce and skills strategy
• Hybrid working with national exposure
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement