Overview

This role is responsible for leading process redesign, improvement, and standardization within Talent Management (TM), while   building strong relationships with key stakeholders. In addition, the role leads TM communications, governance, and is responsible for collaborating across all TM sub-teams to embed, embrace, and execute successful completion of major and key initiatives. The Senior Manager will partner with TM sub-teams to define and   maintain a structured roadmap to success: including outlining underlying business needs, project scope, dependencies, timelines, owners, and deliverables. This position will work directly with the TM leadership team to define linkages between strategic objectives and process improvements, using both analytical tools and project management and change management techniques to provide strategic recommendations relating to our programs, services, and processes to best achieve our goals.

Primary Responsibilities

•    Lead continuous development and optimization of TM processes and establish standardizations ensuring best in class talent attraction, employee development, employment branding, organizational culture, and strategic workforce planning strategies

•    Lead as the primary project manager for all Talent Management key initiatives; this  includes defining scope, requirements, milestones and a roadmap to success within each project, as well as coordinating across all TM sub-teams

•    Design and ensure consistent communication, change management and implementation plans and content for all TM initiatives

•    Lead the efforts to develop, document and drive activities relating to creating and managing Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and playbooks associated within TM and sub-teams

•    Lead TM process mapping, to include running point delivering process modeling across all teams, as well as proactively driving/creating process modeling to develop a repository of information for future projects

•    Lead management of the TM budget by providing monthly and quarterly reporting, assisting in annual  planning, and establishing best practices for all sub-teams

•    Leverage data, analytics, and best practices to deliver insights and actionable optimization efforts that create continuous improvement or reduction in waste

•    Use Lean Six Sigma methodologies to originate and manage chartered projects, including the initial charter development, ongoing project team coordination, and overall project coordination

•    Leverage problem solving and change management skills to ensure project plans deliver in scope, on- time, within budget, and with positive adoption

•    Provide coaching, training, and mentoring to all interested parties on the basics of lean processes and other project management skills and/or tools

•    Provide oversight, direction, and coaching to direct report(s) to foster a spirit of teamwork, continuous improvement (programs and individual development), inclusion and healthy conflict resolution to enable each employee and the department to succeed.

•    Performs other duties as required

Additional Primary Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

•    Bachelor’s Degree and five years of experience or equivalent education and related experience

•    Three years of experience managing/supervising employees

•    Demonstrated knowledge of designing and implementing organization-wide management programs

•    Excellent consultation and facilitation skills and expertise

•    Strong customer focus to effectively and quickly build relationships with senior business leaders and establish trust, respect, and confidence

•    Project Management skills to handle multiple projects simultaneously, remains flexible in a demanding work environment, and adapt to rapidly changing priorities

•    Ability to develop creative solutions and drive effective organizational change

•    Ability to use, administer and debrief career tools, psychological instruments and multi-source assessments

•    Ability to travel domestically up to 30% of the time upon request.

Physical Demands

•    Physical demands with activity or condition for a considerable amount of time may include sitting and typing/keyboarding using a computer (e.g., keyboard, mouse, and monitor) adding machine or mobile device

•    Physical demands with activity or condition may include walking, bending, reaching, standing, squatting, and stooping

•    May require occasional lifting/lowering, pushing, carrying, or pulling up to 20lbs

Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.