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The Talent Management Specialist serves as a subject matter expert, internal consultant, and project manager for Talent Management programs and projects. This role supports talent programs to identify and develop talent, create talent pipelines, & promote career progression and drive a culture of high-performance.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
- Researches, proposes, designs, implements, maintains, and evaluates enterprise-wide talent management processes and programs such as performance management, career development, mentoring, talent review, & succession planning
- Oversees the annual performance evaluation process, setting timelines, coordinating communications, developing materials, facilitating training, and deploying the process
- Designs and maintains learning materials, resources, and tools for talent management programs and processes
- Collaborates with relevant stakeholders to build and execute Talent Management strategies.
- Researches, evaluates and proposes Talent Management best practices to management.
- Compiles, analyzes, monitors and reports against key metrics to diagnose and evaluate the effectiveness of Talent Management programs.
- Facilitates project meetings and learning events
- Defines and maintains job qualifications, including competencies, skills, and work experiences
- This is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of the essential functions or duties related to this job
Work Hours
Working beyond “standard” hours as the need arises Travel up to 5%
Physical Demands
Physical effort requiring manual dexterity is required, includes paperwork, calculators, computers and phone usage Sitting continuously for many hours per day, up to 6 hours per day Climbing stairs to access buildings frequently
Work Postures
Frequent, continuous periods of time standing, up 6 hours per day
Work CONDITIONS
Work Environment
Work is mostly indoors Limited amount of local and/or multiple location travel required. Professional Dress is required when in contact with families.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Excellent communication, interpersonal, and presentation skills
- Experience managing multiple projects and activities to meet multiple competing deadlines
- Demonstrated consultative, relationship building, and interpersonal skills at all levels of organization
- Ability to update, simplify, enhance and optimize existing processes, procedures, policies and technologies.
- Leverages respective technologies in the role, and seeks new ways to use technology at work.
- Establishes effective relationships with internal/external partners that promotes openness and trust and gives them confidence in own intentions,
- Working cooperatively with others to help a team or work group achieve its goals
- Ability to identify and recommend methods to resolve problems, with an orientation for action and superior attention to detail
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Clearly conveying information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.
- Excellent analytical, project management and organizational skills
- Demonstrates initiative to learn new concepts and apply them at work.
- Focuses on setting and achieving challenging goals that align with the business objectives. Partners with manager to determine suitable goals and metrics.
- Identifies and understands problems and opportunities by gathering, analyzing, and interpreting quantitative and qualitative information
- Manages own time and resources to ensure that work is efficiently completed
- Passion for personal accountability, achievement, learning and continual improvement
- Results-oriented and “hands-on” approach; must be able to turn ideas into implementation Ability to travel as needed
Experience
- Five years Human Resources, Talent Management, Diversity and Inclusion, Leadership Development or a relevant discipline Two years implementing Talent Management programs and initiatives Talent technologies such as Workday, SuccessFactors, or Cornerstone on Demand
MINIMUM Requirements
Education
- Bachelor Degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Behavior or related field or 5 years of equivalent experience.
Postal Code: 77019
Category (Portal Searching): Human Resources
Job Location: US-TX - Houston
Top Skills
What We Do
Service Corporation International (NYSE:SCI), headquartered in Houston, Texas, is North America’s leading provider of death care products and services. As of September 30, 2016, SCI operates 1,531 funeral service locations and 471 cemeteries (including 262 combination locations), which are geographically diversified across 45 states, eight Canadian provinces, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Through its businesses, SCI markets the Dignity Memorial® brand which offers assurance of quality, value, caring service and exceptional customer satisfaction. In January 2016, SCI was presented with the J.D. Power President’s Award in recognition of an ongoing dedication to service excellence including quality improvement, customer satisfaction and the development of enduring client relationships. For more information about Service Corporation International, please visit www.sci-corp.com. For more information about Dignity Memorial, please visit www.dignitymemorial.com. As used herein, “SCI” or the “Company” refers to Service Corporation International and all of its affiliated companies.
