Practice Director

The Practice Director for Pontoon Instinct owns and scales a defined advisory focus area within Pontoon's consulting portfolio. This role is accountable for designing differentiated advisory offerings, shaping gotomarket strategy, and executing client engagements. Acting as a bridge between strategy, sales, and delivery, the Practice Director ensures Instinct offerings are data-powered, insight-led, and outcome-driven, enabling clients to optimize their workforce strategies and accelerate transformation. The role partners closely with Pontoon sales team, client delivery leaders, Pontoon
Instinct Engagement Directors and cross-functional departments within Pontoon to position Instinct services, architect consulting solutions, and serve as a trusted advisor to enterprise clients. This position blends practice leadership with client-facing consulting and internal enablement, serving as a critical driver of scalable, repeatable, and high-impact workforce advisory solutions

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Own a defined area of focus within Pontoon Instinct's advisory framework.
* Design, refine, and evolve Instinct consulting products, methodologies, and toolkits.
* Define clear value propositions, business outcomes, and success metrics rooted in data, insights, and workforce strategy best practices.
* Ensure products are scalable, repeatable, and aligned with market trends and client needs across talent acquisition, workforce management, and mobility.
* Go-to-Market & Sales Enablement.
* Partner with sales, marketing, and account teams to build and execute Instinct gotomarket strategies.
* Support opportunity identification, solution shaping, and early-stage deal qualification.
* Equip sales teams with collateral, case studies, points of view, and advisory narratives that reflect Pontoon Instinct's brand and differentiators.
* Contribute to pricing strategies, scope definition, and commercial models for advisory-led and blended consulting engagements.
* Serve as a senior advisor and thought leader for clients undergoing workforce transformation.
* Lead or support the delivery of consulting engagements, ensuring alignment with Instinct methodologies and quality standards.
* Deliver measurable outcomes tied to workforce optimization, efficiency, digital enablement, and strategic talent initiatives.
* Support ongoing executive-level client relationships and stakeholder management.
* Partner with sales on forecasting, planning, and pipeline health.
* Balance delivery excellence with utilization, profitability, and repeatability.
* Identify opportunities to extend advisory services within existing Pontoon accounts and across the Adecco ecosystem

* Collaborate with other Practice Directors to deliver multi-disciplinary advisory solutions.
* Ensure tight alignment between Instinct offerings and broader Pontoon services including MSP and Services Procurement.
* Partner with product, client delivery, and analytics teams to embed insights, technology, and data into advisory offerings.
* Help build and maintain frameworks, tools, methodologies, and intellectual property that strengthen the Instinct brand.
* Mentor and develop consultants and analysts within the advisory practice.
* Share market intelligence, client feedback, and emerging trends to evolve Instinct's advisory proposition.
* Champion continuous improvement and innovation to enhance client experience and advisory impact.
* Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.

EDUCATION & JOB REQUIREMENTS:
10 years in consulting, advisory, workforce solutions, or professional services.
Proven experience building, owning, or scaling service offerings or practice capabilities.
Strong executive consulting experience with enterprise-level clients.
Experience in a workforce solutions, talent advisory, or HR consulting environment.
Background in workforce strategy, talent acquisition, HR technology, or operational transformation.
Experience delivering outcome-based or insight-driven advisory models.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
* Skilled in communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
* Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
* Demonstrated ability to partner with sales and commercial teams.
* Commercial acumen including deal shaping, scoping, and engagement economics.
* Ability to operate in a fast-paced, matrixed environment across strategy, sales, and delivery functions.
* Experience delivering outcome-based or insight-driven advisory models.
* Familiarity working with large, complex global organizations and multi-stakeholder environments.
* Proficient with Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook

It's an exciting time to be part of our team. We're proud to be a global thought-leader and care about doing the best job we can to ensure better futures for everyone. We do this by building our Future@Work strategy as a united team of 30,000 colleagues with a collective spirit working in over 60 countries globally.

You'll have the opportunity to grow across a variety of interesting jobs and careers over our extensive portfolio of global brands. We empower our colleagues to work in the smartest, most efficient ways to achieve total balance between the demands of their jobs and their lives. That's why we give you the autonomy and support you need to work in the way that makes you most productive, agile, confident and insightful.

Putting people first, pioneering with a collective spirit and always advancing with a growth mindset -that's what we stand for at the Adecco Group. Here, we are all individuals with a unique perspective on the world we live in. That's what makes us stronger. Whoever you are and whatever your background, you can be yourself. So, we aim to build on the attributes that make you, you. We offer a range of world-class resources for upskilling and development, satisfying your curiosity while the sharing skills, knowledge and expertise to grow together.

Make an impact where it matters most.

We believe that having an understanding of the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organization with multiple different roles, our application process can vary.

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

As one of the world's largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain. The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

The anticipated salary range for this position is between $100,000 and $120,000. Salary may be determined based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors. This position participates in Pontoon's incentive program which also includes bonus eligibility.

Benefit offerings for full-time employment include medical, dental, vision, term life and AD&D insurance, short-term and long-term disability, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, wellness plans, and a 401k plan or a non-qualified deferred compensation plan. Available paid leave includes Personal Time Off (PTO) on an accrual basis up to 152 hours a year, 10 Paid Holidays, 1 Community Service Day, and up to 6 weeks of Paid Parental Leave. PTO and holiday hours are prorated based on hire date within the calendar year.

The Company will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records

Deadline to apply is April 15th, 2026

Posting date: 04-08-2026