Talent Manager

Job Description

The Talent Manager serves as a key contributor in the Talent COE focused on enriching career and learning experiences for our associates. This role will become a trusted advisor to our HR partners in our commercial business and core functions by understanding their talent needs and serving as a primary point of contact for talent initiatives and program execution. The Talent Manager will also lead the execution of our talent review and succession planning process, the evolution and design of these processes in partnership with the talent team and all post-talent review outcomes org wide.

This role can be based out of the Fortune Brand Innovation North Olmsted, OH or Deerfield, IL facilities following a hybrid work schedule. Our Hybrid work schedule provides associates the flexibility to work remote Monday and Friday while being in office Tuesday – Thursday.

RESPONSIBLIITIES:

• Drive deep partnership with the business and HR leaders to align talent initiatives with their organizational goals, ensuring agility and responsiveness in the solutions.
• Lead the design and execution of the enterprise, global talent review and succession process to identify and cultivate high-potential talent.
• Partners with business, HR, and talent leaders to define enterprise critical roles, desired skills, and operationalize action plans required for success.
• Leads talent and capability initiatives to strengthen bench and improve readiness.
• Manages and executes on talent projects such as nomination process evolution, talent assessments and utilizing talent tools in Workday in partnership with various stakeholders.
• Consult, coach/mentor and share talent management and leadership development best practices.
• Participate in organizational design projects with a lens on best practices to develop new capabilities, enhance team effectiveness and change readiness.
• Assists in designing talent programs that meet the needs of the business and deploys targeted solutions as needed (talent assessments, coaching, knowledge transfer, team effectiveness workshops, etc.)
• Partners with the Talent COE team to promote and increase visibility to all talent, engagement, and learning programs to increase utilization of tools and resources.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Business or a related discipline is required.
• Minimum of 5 years of HR or organization development experience. HR Business partner experience or previous Talent management experience preferred.
• Exceptional leadership skills with experience leading projects, considering diverse perspectives, and influencing others.
• Consultative skills, with the ability to diagnose and analyze needs, determine, and develop solutions.
• High attention to detail and ability to execute independently on various initiatives simultaneously.
• Experience in utilizing Workday talent tools to enhance and simplify current practices.
• Experience with the use of competencies; experience with competency models and certification in the Korn Ferry suite of products is preferred.
• PC skills (Word, PowerPoint, Project, and Excel) and desktop publishing skills are preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to think systemically.