Lead, Talent

Your Opportunity as the Lead, Talent

Contribute to the growth of our talent and play a key role in helping our organization stay ahead of the curve. Leverage your project management and influential skills to create, implement and deliver talent solutions across our entire enterprise.

Location: Orrville, OH (Close proximity to Cleveland/Akron)

Work Arrangements: Hybrid 30% or more in office presence as business need requires

In this role you will:

• Contribute to the development of the talent strategy across the employee lifecycle (i.e. Talent Acquisition, Development, Career, Performance)

• Ideate, design, and execute next phase of talent metrics; leverage data to identify areas of opportunity and impact

• Lead Performance Management process including Objective Setting, Mid-Year and Year-End launches

• Develop tactics, solutions, resources and processes needed for the execution of strategy

• Partner with Organization Business Partners on SBA and/or function specific needs, where needed

• Contribute to Company-wide development planning (formal and informal) in support of our Thrive Together framework

• Support other organization development interventions that aim to improve our organization's performance (i.e., team building, leadership development programs, culture assessments, change management)

• Partner to drive strategies, programs and tactics toward ongoing development and evolution of Company culture and other large-scale enterprise change initiatives

• Conduct organization assessments to identify opportunities for growth across culture, attitudes and behaviors

• Partner with HR leaders, colleagues and collaborate with leaders to define organizational vision, design principles and strategy roadmaps

• Leverage data and insights to drive continuous improvement of organization solutions and change success

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree

• Track record of working in a mature HR-COE model and matrixed HR organization

• Proven ability to create strong partnerships across teams to develop and implement solutions without direct authority

• Proven team player with excellent communication and interpersonal skills who can effectively collaborate and influence employees at all levels of the organization

• Proven ability to diagnose problems and identify root cause to inform surgical action

• Experience managing multiple projects, prioritizing, meeting deadlines, and functioning as part of a team

• Experience managing all facets of performance management

• Program and/or project management in the HR space with a bias for action

• Indirectly leading others and launching initiatives, programs, and experiences

• Applying current industry best practices, guidelines, regulations, and laws

• Facilitating with an executive presence and professional maturity to deliver difficult messages in an empathetic manner

• Successfully navigating ambiguity and complexity; comfort making reversible decisions

• Ensuring high-quality output by showing concern for all aspects of the deliverable

• Expert skills with Microsoft Excel, data analysis, data storytelling in Word and PowerPoint

• Experience with online collaboration tools

• Flexibility to work a non-traditional work schedule, adjusting to the peaks and valleys of deliverables

Learn more about working at Smucker:

• Helping our Employees Thrive

• Delivering on Our Purpose

• Our Continued Commitment to Ensuring a Workplace for All

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