Senior Manager Talent Management @ Publicis Sapient

Team: People Success - GPS

Your Impact:

Design Management (Strategic design, Implementation, and Improvement)

• Designing/developing elements of Talent Management Strategy and Implementation Plan in alignment with the future of work.
• Work on career competency frame design and company level implementation along with Business leaders, and internal HR partners and collaborators
• Work on the next level thinking towards Performance Management, Fluid Promotions, and future of work with respect to talent strategy.
• Provide the industry benchmark, primary and secondary research for various Talent Initiatives/global talent management projects.
• Create and integrate talent frames like Job descriptions, Role Descriptions, Internal Job posting blueprint to the overall talent structural design and career and growth experience of people.
• Work with the Talent and People Strategists, Internal teams, and Business POCs for creating wireframes for project planning and execution.
• Responsible for proactively identifying process gaps and provide appropriate solutions.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to improve process efficiency on talent processes.
• Act as a consultant and source of knowledge to the business/HRBP in the various organizational development domains and change management processes.
• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in organizational development, incorporating innovative ideas into the company s approach to talent and culture.

Stakeholder Management

• Work with Leaders and Internal HR stakeholders to establish ideas, options and influence decision making towards future talent strategy design.
• Create buy in and socialize the approach, timelines, and processes.
• Collaborate with various internal stakeholders on project planning and work with the team towards seamless implementation.
• Partner with stakeholders, keep them involved in various talent programs and initiatives to ensure positive working relationships.
• Identify conflicts, take support from team lead (where required) to appropriately confront and resolve conflicts.

Communication and Change Management

• Lead and facilitate Talent related change management strategic initiatives.
• Ensure integrated global HR change management and communications approaches are being developed and implemented for talent programs.
• Build and foster HR program/project and change management capability and defining a set of global standards and designing, developing, and deploying change management and communication toolkits.
• Support and collaborate with global Internal Communications team in global cascade of talent initiatives, programs, and priorities, building content and decks as appropriate.
• Work with regional HR leads to enable regional cascade of talent initiatives and programs to drive awareness and adoption.
• Create communication plan and content materials (emails, presentation decks, intranet, posters, videos, presentations etc. )
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to diagnose organizational challenges and design tailored solutions that enhance adoption of new talent initiatives and overall effectiveness.
• Develop and maintain effective communication channels to ensure alignment between HR initiatives and organizational objectives.

Project Management

• Lead talent management operational design and solutioning of talent strategies/initiatives with stakeholders and internal partners.
• Work with stakeholders, within own team and across business, to close on overall plan/approach for the Talent Management Services Track.
• Create high and mid-level and detailed project plans, estimate LOE and highlight dependencies on independent as well as joint projects.
• Responsible for successful delivery of the project/assigned tasks - assess the needs, engage with stakeholders, proactively identify roadblocks/risks and propose mitigation solutions, create/track the project plan.
• Own end to end process of project managing from planning to execution but allocate activities to team members and ensure expectations are managed.
• Responsible for ensuring the low-level plan is implemented by team, timelines are met, and quality of results is maintained.
• Be the point of contact for answering questions, addressing issues and providing solutions within and outside the Talent Management team.

Reporting Trend Analysis

• Ensure accurate reporting is enabled keeping in mind requirements and interests of the audience, leaders, and stakeholders.
• Lead and manage insights and data analysis for the rewards and promotions thinking.
• Identify trends and work with leads to plan for future of talent initiatives and reporting along with the Talent Analytics team.
• Help in design and creating measurement dashboards for talent related trends and analytics.
• Ensure, that deep data analysis and research strategy is coherent and aligned to business needs.

Team Management

• Drive higher performance of team members, describe actions results for successful performance and delivering their roles with minimum supervision.
• Build a collaborative team environment and ensure performance is recognized when critical actions are delivered.
• Mentor and guide team members in planning their career growth.
• Facilitate learning development and identify opportunities aligned to their aspirations.

Organizational/ People Success Initiatives

• Contribute towards overall company events such as hiring, training (Onboarding Programs), Trainee integration, People growth etc.
• Participate in internal initiatives/ projects/ taskforces across People Success teams or at a company level.