Advisory & Engagement Director

Pontoon Instinct is Pontoon’s global advisory and consulting practice, helping clients transform how work gets done through data-led workforce strategy, operating model redesign, and technology modernization.

The Advisory & Engagement Director is the senior leader accountable for client relationships, engagement outcomes, and commercial success across Instinct’s advisory portfolio. This role leads complex, outcome‑based consulting engagements spanning contingent workforce strategy, external labor optimization, talent intelligence, and digital enablement.

GENERAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Serve as the senior client executive responsible for all Instinct advisory engagements.
• Build trusted advisor relationships with CHROs, CPOs, CIOs, CFOs, and senior HR/Procurement leaders.
• Diagnose workforce challenges and translate them into strategic recommendations supported by data, benchmarks, and technology insights.
• Guide client decision‑making and ensure alignment across executive stakeholders.
• Lead the end‑to‑end delivery of Instinct consulting engagements, ensuring scope, milestones, risks, and financials are tightly managed.
• Direct cross‑functional teams across workforce strategy, talent intelligence, operating model design, analytics, digital platforms, and change management.
• Ensure deliverables reflect Pontoon Instinct’s methodologies, quality standards, and advisory frameworks.
• Own engagement outcomes—ensuring defined success metrics are achieved and value is realized.
• Own overall engagement economics, including pricing, margin, utilization, change management, and forecasting.
• Shape statements of work, success measures, and outcome-based pricing structures.
• Manage scope changes while protecting profitability and client value.
• Support portfolio planning, revenue tracking, and pipeline development within the Instinct practice.
• Partner with Pontoon sales, Global Client Delivery, account teams and Instinct Practice 
Directors/Leads to uncover advisory-led transformation opportunities.
• Participate in pre‑sales efforts including discovery, solutioning, workshops, and proposal development.
• Expand advisory work into broader Pontoon services.
• Define quantitative and qualitative success metrics.
• Track and communicate the impact of advisory work

• Ensure accountability for delivering expected value.
• Act as the bridge between Pontoon Instinct, sales and client service delivery.
• Collaborate with Practice Directors/Lead on the evolution of Instinct frameworks, offerings, and methodologies.
• Mentor consultants and support capability building.
• Support development of reusable IP and advisory assets.
• Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned. 

EDUCATION & JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• 10+ years of consulting, advisory, MSP, workforce solutions, or transformation leadership experience.
• Proven track record leading complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements.
• Deep understanding of contingent workforce ecosystems and technology platforms.
• Experience in a consulting firm, MSP provider, or workforce transformation environment.
• Background in workforce strategy, operating model design, procurement transformation, or HR modernization.
• Experience partnering across HR, Procurement, IT, and Finance.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS & ABILITIES:
• Skilled in communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen.
• Demonstrated ability to drive transformation outcomes.
• Familiarity with VMS platforms, talent marketplaces, HR tech, and workforce analytics.
• 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 $150,000. 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 May 22, 2026.

Posting date: 05-17-2026