The job in a nutshell:

As Director of Talent Management, you will be responsible for full life-cycle targeted talent/candidate selection and development. You and your team will coordinate the talent management process through all functions and levels, seeking continual improvement. You will work with your team and the VP of HR to identify and implement talent management tools and processes, including: recruiting and selection, talent strategy, on-boarding, succession planning, talent development and mentor programming.

Responsibilities

Main Ingredients:

• Talent management: Are you people focused? You will be responsible for monitoring talent trends and developing capabilities to create the best talent management practices, managing the recruiting team and related budget. Reporting to the VP of HR, you will partner with VP of HR to determine and implement Talent Strategy. In this role, you will serve as strategic advisor, functional expert, and thought partner on key talent acquisition, development, and retention strategies

• Leadership: Working with the Recruiting Manager, Senior Recruiters, Talent Coordinators, and Applicant Tracking Administrators, you will establish and build healthy working relationships and partnerships with internal and external customers/clients. As a leader, you will create and sustain a high performing team committed to exceeding business goals. As a business partner, you will work with hiring managers to develop effective strategies and relationships to positively impact the recruiting and hiring processes. Use your leadership skills to train and educate leaders on talent and learning analytics research!
• Mentor Program Development: Do you enjoy developing people and promoting workforce retention? We need you to create a formal talent development and mentor program at the Store Support Center. By driving internal development and ensuring key talent is considered for critical positions, you will help the organization achieve its goals. Additionally, your knowledge of and ability to align the people and culture with changes in business strategy, organizational structure, technology and business processes will help to enable growth.
• Succession Planning: Are you forward thinking? We need you to propose and implement succession planning processes for the organization. Create a consistent talent review and succession planning process that gives all leaders line of sight into the health of the talent pipeline, both internally and externally.
• Process Development: As part of the full recruitment life cycle, you will review our current on-boarding process and re-imagine and formalize it for the future. You will need to possess a clear understanding of business issues and opportunities to translate them to a vision, or strategy, with a planned course of action.

Although this is a general outline of job responsibilities all employees are expected to be “hands on” and do whatever it takes to get the job done and make the company thrive.

Qualifications

Recipe for Success:

1. 5-7 years related managerial experience
2. Multi state retail experience preferred
3. High level of professionalism
4. Experience working with C level executives
5. Excellent Written and Verbal communications skills
6. Change Management
7. UltiPro / iCIMS experience preferred
8. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
9. Outstanding EQ and Leadership skills
10. Ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations