Senior Talent Development Manager

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Position Overview

The Senior Talent Development Manager will own and manage Adaptive’s talent management and talent development initiatives, including leadership development programs, performance management practices, and org health/engagement diagnostics.

This role requires advanced expertise in end-to-end talent management programs and success partnering deeply with business leaders from frontline to C-suite. The ideal candidate is a respected thought partner, who can empathize with their end-users, and is able to make data-driven decisions while never losing sight of the people behind the numbers.

This is both a strategic and tactical role, reporting to the Director, Talent Acquisition and Development.

Key Responsibilities and Essential Functions

• Develop and lead Adaptive’s talent development strategy, partnering with business leaders and PaCT to address organizational needs and deliver high-impact, scalable programs.
• Design, create, deliver, and sustain enterprise-wide leadership development programming.
• In partnership with People Partners (HRBPs), evolve and execute our talent management and talent development initiatives.
• Utilize evaluation data, industry data, trends, and external benchmarks to continuously improve the performance and engagement metrics of the programming and bottom-line results; identify key insights to identify skill and talent opportunities to inform future actions and decision making.
• In partnership with business leaders and PaCT, inform and evolve our suite of employee engagement diagnostics.
• Maintain and improve our enterprise-wide career pathing framework.
• Monitor and evolve our agile performance management processes (goal setting, check-ins, coaching, and feedback); partner with People Partners to deliver on program outcomes.
• Serve as a respected Talent Development subject matter expert and thought partner.
• Manage the day-to-day tasks of multiple interdependent projects and programs of high complexity and broad.
• Leverage change management best practices to ensure the successful adoption of programs and initiatives.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements (Education, Experience, Other)

Required

• BS degree or higher required
• 12+ years of progressive experience in talent development, training/learning, human resources or similar. This experience must include:
  • Creating, implementing, and evolving talent development programs for teams at all levels including career pathing, talent reviews, and performance management
  • Managing multiple interdependent projects of high complexity and broad scope
  • Iterating and evolving programming using data.
• Proven ability to translate business needs and strategies into relevant, timely Talent Development initiatives.
• Experience translating data and analytics to develop insights, narratives, and decisions.
• Experience using change management practices at the enterprise level.
• Experience getting results with a high degree of autonomy.
• Adept at moving fast, and having a bias for action.
• An elite communicator possessing strong interpersonal skills, with strong boundary spanning capabilities and experience.
• Advanced process and program design skills
• Ability to successfully negotiate difficult situations, with a deep sensitivity.
• Experience of being a cultural ambassador and role model of company values and principles
• Managing third party vendor relationships and deliverables
• Excellent written communication skills.

Preferred

• Advanced degree in business administration, adult learning, psychology, or other related field
• Ability to be a hands-on leader that can move from long term strategy to day-to-day tactical operations challenges
• Experience with large scale, talent development programming
• Proven track record of facilitating company-level initiatives with multiple stakeholders
• Demonstrated track-record of building programs to advance corporate culture and lead change management initiatives
• Track record of successfully partnering with C-suite (company executives)

Compensation

Salary Range: $144,600 - 217,000

Possible “other compensation” elements to include:

• equity grant
• bonus eligible

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Interested in this position, but don’t meet all the requirements? Adaptive is committed to building diverse, equitable, and inclusive teams across our organization. Please consider applying even if your experience doesn’t match all the qualifications; you may be the exact candidate we’re searching for!

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