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Purpose:

The Sr. Manager, Talent and Performance Management plays a pivotal role in shaping our company's future success. By leading a dedicated team of professionals, this position develops and executes strategic initiatives to elevate organizational performance, boost employee engagement, foster associate development, and ensure robust succession planning. The Sr. Manager will architect our talent strategies, focusing on cultivating a high-performance selling culture where employees are motivated, empowered, and aligned with the company's goals and values. Through strategic oversight and innovative planning, the role ensures that our talent pipelines remain dynamic and poised to meet the company's evolving needs. This role demands a visionary leader with a deep understanding of best practices in succession and performance management, a passion for talent development, and the ability to inspire and guide a team toward excellence. The ideal candidate will possess exceptional cross-functional collaboration skills, working seamlessly with leaders across various departments (Workday, HR generalists and HRVPs, Learning, People Analytics, etc.) to bring talent strategies to life.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provides strategic direction, clear expectations, value added expertise, project oversight, coaching, counseling and career development to team. Expert in the areas of individual and organizational assessment

• Partner with Human Resource functions (Staffing, Talent Management, Learning, Corporate HR, etc.) and functional leaders to ensure effective enterprise-wide applicability and ease of execution

• Drive key projects to completion: Employer of Choice, VOICES/360 assessments, individual assessment, and other tools/processes

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• Position Reports to Senior Director Org Effectiveness

• Number of Direct Reports: 4

Travel Requirements:

• Typically requires overnight travel 5% to 20% of the time.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.

• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated organizational savvy and ability to influence others across different teams and levels.

• Outstanding change management skills.

• Excellent presentation and written communication skills.

• A deep understanding of talent management strategies in companies of THD's size and complexity.

• Strategic thinking skills, coupled with a strong ability to execute with urgency.

• Solid people development skills.

• Ability to navigate ambiguity and demonstrate emotional resilience to adapt to changing business needs.

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a master's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 7

Competencies:

• Inspires Achievement - successful leadership of highly qualified teams of I/O psychologists or their equivalent

• Builds Relationships (excellent ability to work across organizational boundaries at multiple levels)

• Commitment to Innovation and Change

• Expert Technical Knowledge in I/O Psychology and/or Organizational Behavior/Development

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Ability to influence decision makers in areas with which they might be unfamiliar

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class. - $123,000.00 - $205,800.00