Talent Practice Leader – Skill Governance

About the role

The Talent Practice Leader – Skill Governance operationalises GE Vernova’s enterprise skills strategy, ensuring a trusted, scalable, and well‑governed skills foundation across the organisation. This senior HR role owns the standards, governance model, and operating routines that keep skills data current, usable, and aligned with the talent ecosystem.

Key responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise skills governance model, defining decision rights, standards, and operating routines.
• Run the Skills Council – manage intake, prioritisation, and ensure execution of decisions across the enterprise.
• Steward the enterprise skills framework, aligning it with job architecture and learning systems.
• Set quality standards for AI‑inferred skills, including validation rules and governance controls.
• Own skills data quality, establishing audit routines, resolving issues, and maintaining enterprise trust.
• Define business requirements and data standards for skills in Workday and related systems.
• Drive consistent adoption of skills standards across career growth, mobility, learning, and workforce planning processes.
• Partner with HR Tech, Analytics, and COEs to translate skills strategy into usable standards and system requirements.
• Provide insights on skills gaps, supply/demand, and emerging needs to inform workforce decisions.
• Lead end‑to‑end program execution with strong project management and stakeholder alignment.

Required profile

• 8–12+ years of experience in HR, talent COEs, people analytics, workforce strategy, HR technology, or related fields.
• Experience with skills taxonomies, skills‑based talent models, job architecture, data governance, or adjacent domains.
• Proven ability to translate strategy into practical operating models, governance routines, and implementation plans.
• Strong program and project management capability in complex, matrixed environments.
• Experience partnering across HR, business, and technology teams to deliver enterprise solutions.
• Comfort operating at the intersection of HR, data, and technology.

Required skills

• Workday