Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Description

This is a great opportunity to join a fast-paced, highly dynamic Human Resources team that is constantly innovating and striving to positively impact the people of Ares. In this newly created role, the Performance Management Lead will be responsible for helping to build upon a best-in-class Performance Management strategy, supporting an industry-leading approach to assessing and developing our employees.

This includes the ownership of Performance Management related processes:

• Goal Setting, Mid-Year Reviews, Year-End Reviews

• Talent Assessment

• 360 Reviews

• Promotion Process and Criteria

The successful candidate will be confident, energetic, creative and passionate. They should thrive in ambiguous situations and enjoy creating and building new processes and programs. They should be able to lead towards a strategic vision of Performance Management and have a high attention to detail to support that vision and execution. They should possess excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, and should have experience building strong relationships with leaders at various levels across multiple locations. They should understand best practices in performance management and be eager to innovate and create a market-leading function.

Reporting relationships

Reports to: Principal, Talent Development

Supervises: Associate, Talent Development

Primary functions & responsibilities

In this newly created role, this individual will be responsible for implementing a high-quality, best-in-class approach to Performance Management. This individual will be expected to develop credibility and strong relationships with HR colleagues who support the Performance Management components (i.e. HRBPs, Reporting & Analytics, HRIS, etc.).  They will need to operate strategically in assessing the impact of processes, implementing enhancements / making changes, and ensuring the connections to other HR initiatives as well as other Talent Development offerings (ex. Management Development). They will also need to roll their sleeves up to create content, manage the relevant technology platforms and project manage.  Key responsibilities include:

• Overseeing the system design and functionality

• Managing the project planning and execution for each stage of the performance management cycle and promotion process

• Developing and facilitating training

• Creating communications and other resources (refence guides, videos)

• Creating and maintaining promotion criteria (enterprise-wide and business-specific)

• Leading the related Change Management work

• Analyzing the effectiveness of the various components and ensuring continuous improvement

• Overseeing team member(s) supporting Performance Management

• Taking on Talent Development projects as needed

Qualifications

Education: Bachelor’s Degree required, Master’s Degree preferred or equivalent work experience. Previous experience in the Financial Services industry is preferred.

Experience Required: Minimum of 10 years of relevant Human Resources experience in a fast-paced environment and 7 years in Talent Development / Performance Management

Proven in-depth experience in:

• Designing and implementing talent development / performance management strategies in complex and global environments

• Hands-on Learning & Development content creation and delivery

• Change management at the organization level

• Project management of large-scale global initiatives with ambiguous parameters and diverse groups of stakeholders

• Managing others

General Requirements:

• Possess strong influencing, consulting, and relationship-building skills

• Demonstrate passion and energy for all things related to Talent Development

• Be a strong communicator with extensive facilitation experience

• Be comfortable with owning and executing projects end-to-end

• Demonstrate comfort in leveraging data to inform strategic decisions and talent priorities

• Stay abreast of best practices in the industry and field of Talent Development / Performance Management

• Be flexible (in terms of hours) to be able to coordinate with team members across various time zones

Reporting Relationships

Principal, Talent Development

Compensation

$175,000-$200,000

There is no set deadline to apply for this job opportunity. Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis until the search is no longer active.