Job Title:  Senior Talent Program Manager

Position Summary

This newly added position works collaboratively with business leaders, HR and Center of Excellence (COE) business partners to support the development, implementation, management and continued evolution of global talent management processes and programs to ensure STERIS has the talent needed to meet current and future business needs. This role operates at the enterprise company level and its incumbent is globally-minded, highly collaborative, strategic thinking and a hands-on talent process and program owner.      

As a key member of the Talent Management COE Team, this position will help shape the future of business-driven talent processes and programs at STERIS through collaborative and consultative engagement and partnership with key stakeholders across STERIS’ global footprint. This role will be responsible for managing one or more of STERIS global talent processes/programs (performance management, talent and succession planning, listening strategy and high-potential talent assessment and development) and will lead key process or program development, management, communication/training, and user adoption/impact. This individual will leverage a blend of best practices, innovative solutions and data driven decision making to analyze, identify and manage practical and impactful talent programs that deliver business results.   
 

Duties

•    Leads and continually evaluates, scales, evolves and deploys the STERIS Talent Review and Succession Planning Process, ensuring a robust and effective process and framework for assessing talent and succession and facilitating alignment on talent gaps and supporting strategies/actions. Supports process and program design, communication, tools/resources, training and execution within the businesses. 
•    Leads and continues to evolve STERIS’ Performance Management philosophies, processes, programs and systems (Global Performance System), building on current foundational continuous performance management mindsets and behaviors.  
•    Leads new and ongoing global deployment and execution of key talent management processes and programs, including project planning, change management, communication, training and assessment of user adoption and effectiveness.  
•    Builds and maintains strong relationships, credibility and influence with key stakeholders. Partners closely with HRBPs and business leaders to understand talent program needs, while considering organizational readiness and capacity for change. Partners with HR, COE and business leaders to achieve strategic talent objectives.
•    Establishes and maintains a strong working relationship with HRIS System Administrators to ensure talent modules within SuccessFactors are effectively designed and deployed to support desired outcomes of talent processes and programs.  
•    Assesses, measures and analyzes the effectiveness and user adoption of key talent management processes and tools. Continually identifies and implements improvements. 
•    Identifies, tracks and analyzes key data and metrics to evaluate effectiveness of talent programs. Communicates insights, plans, progress and business outcomes to senior business and HR leaders.  
•    Manages existing vendor partnerships and supports the evaluation of new external vendors and offerings as needed.  
•    Maintains strong working knowledge and familiarity with talent management trends, best-practices, tools/resources and vendors. Conduct appropriate research and benchmarking and make recommendations for shifts in strategy, approach/methodology and tools, as necessary.
•    Partners closely with Talent COE team members to ensure alignment and integration of talent management and development philosophies, processes, programs and tools across the talent lifecycle. 
 

Required Experience

•    Bachelor’s degree in Organizational Development (OD), Human Resources (HR), Psychology or other related fields. Master’s degree in HR, OD or Business Administration (MBA) preferred.  
•    Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in Human Resources with a minimum of 5 years supporting strategic talent management processes/programs and designing custom solutions within a large, complex global manufacturing or service organization. Deep working experience in the areas of performance management and succession planning required. 
•    Previous experience in a strategic HRBP role preferred.  
•    Visionary and strategic thinker with the ability to translate and communicate strategy into practical application and measurable business impact. Ability to identify and implement creative solutions to complex problems. 
•    Strong organizational and project leadership/management skills, including ability to create and communicate project plans, effectively direct and deploy team resources, monitor work progress and achieve project milestones.  
•    Strong analytical, problem solving and critical thinking skills to assess and continuously improve processes, practices and tools in areas of responsibility.  
•    Ability to navigate ambiguity and demonstrate agile thinking, behavior and decision making. Approaches work with intellectual curiosity and openness. 
•    Highly developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills, including ability to communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively.   
•    Strong facilitation skills and executive presence with a senior leadership audience. 
•    Demonstrated ability to effectively navigate within a complex global organization, including synthesizing business needs and preferences at the enterprise level. 
•    Strong working understanding of industry benchmarks, leading practices and innovations in talent management, as well as experience in practical and impactful application within an organization.