The Talent Management Associate Director, Operations is adept at organizing key meetings, developing agendas aligned with organizational priorities, and translating insights from strategy meetings into actionable plans. This role enables success of the Global Talent agenda by monitoring progress of key initiatives, addressing bottlenecks, and facilitating accountability. Additionally, the Associate Director provides vital financial oversight, aligning resources with priorities and tracking expenditures. Beyond these responsibilities, they actively engage in change management communication and promote the Global Talent organization's work throughout the company. Integral to knowledge management, the Associate Director captures and shares best practices within the group. Essential Duties and Responsibilities Key Responsibilities

• Organize and optimize key meetings, ensuring efficient use of time and resources
• Develop and manage meeting agendas aligned with organizational priorities
• Capture insights and outcomes from talent strategy formulation meetings, translating discussions into actionable plans and documenting agreed-upon strategies
• Assist in project management for strategic talent initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
• Track progress, identify bottlenecks, and facilitate solutions to keep projects on track
• Maintain a comprehensive view of progress on strategic initiatives and regularly report on their status and alignment with objectives within Global Talent COE as well as across HR and other relevant groups (i.e. Corporate Strategy).
• Work closely with team members to establish clear accountability for tasks and deliverables, implementing mechanisms for tracking and ensuring timely completion
• Drive execution on key initiatives, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget
• Provide support to SVP of Global Talent and Global Process Owners in budget management activities, aligning financial resources with strategic priorities, and collaborating with finance teams to track expenditures related to strategic initiatives
• Facilitate change management communications, effectively conveying key messages, updates, and information related to talent management initiatives within the organization
• Contribute to knowledge management by capturing and sharing best practices within the Global Talent organization

Other Duties

• Build a strong network with HR leaders, COEs, and HRIS
• Performs other duties as assigned by supervisor

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in human resources or organizational effectiveness

Experience

• 7+ years of related HR experience in a public corporation, ideally in the software industry.
• Extensive experience in designing, organizing and optimizing key meetings, efficiently utilizing time and resource and facilitating engagement and progress
• Proven capability in providing project management support for strategic talent initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Strong track record in maintaining a comprehensive view of progress on Global Talent strategic agenda, regularly reporting on project alignment and status.
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate the sharing of best practices within the group, serve as an internal expert on connections across initiatives, and establish clear accountability for tasks and deliverables.

Other Knowledge, Skills, Abilities or Certifications

• Skill in organizing and coordinating key meetings, optimizing time and resources.
• Strong capability in providing project management support for strategic initiatives, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Skill in maintaining a comprehensive view of progress on initiatives across Global Talent and regularly reporting on project alignment, and status.
• Ability to facilitate the sharing of best practices across the group and serve as an internal expert on connections across initiatives.
• Strong ability to establish clear accountability, track progress, and ensure timely completion of assigned responsibilities.
• Ability to capture insights, translate discussions into actionable plans, and document agreed-upon strategies.
• Strong critical thinking and data analytical skills; able to interpret, evaluate, and analyze facts and information available, establish options and make informed decisions 
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate complex, difficult, and/or sensitive information with a high degree of self-confidence
• Proficient in change management communication, effectively conveying key messages and updates for talent initiatives.
• Skillful in adapting strategies for understanding and engagement during change, aligning with objectives and tailoring approaches for diverse audiences
• Strong political awareness and organizational agility; able to adjust communication style to any audience
• Proficient in financial analysis for budget management, ensuring alignment of resources with strategic priorities
• Highly proficiency in Microsoft Office suite, particularly MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.

Travel Requirements

• Ability to travel approximately 25% of time.

Physical Demands

• Normal office environment

Compensation:Target salary range CA, CT, CO, HI, NY, WA: $147,200-$208,350