The workforce backbone of an Automation Center of Excellence.

Three talent profiles. One enterprise. No room for generalists.

A global industrial manufacturer was standing up an Automation Center of Excellence: a permanent function to drive automation across the business.

• The need: three distinct profiles: automation engineers, a PMO discipline, and HR-systems modernization.
• The environment: asset-intensive manufacturing, reporting into senior US IT leadership.
• The bar: platform-deep specialists, no generalists.

Calibrated sourcing across three distinct practices.

• Three sourcing rubrics, not one.

  Each practice calibrated separately: hands-on Appian and real REST-API integration for the CoE, distinct bars for PMO and HR systems.

• Platform-specific qualifying questions.

  A structured Appian questionnaire built by our team to separate genuine platform depth from résumé claims.

• Multi-leader stakeholder management.

  Two senior IT leaders, automation and HR-systems, each managed as a primary stakeholder.

• Hybrid commercial models.

  Contract where the work is project-bounded; contract-to-hire where the role is permanent but fit needs a runway.

• Manufacturing context in screening.

  Screened for shared-services KPIs and asset-intensive realities that white-collar generalists miss.