Skills, Strategy & Architecture Sr Manager

Skills, Strategy & Architecture Sr Manager

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.

The Skills Strategy & Architecture Sr Manager will lead a team of specialists who will support this new operating model and way of thinking about talent development, mobility, and bring skills and capabilities mindset to life by executing a multi‑year strategy.

• Execute a skills‑driven organization strategy that identifies and deploys ready‑now talent to step into open positions globally at Allstate.
• Execute and measure the progress on a phased multi‑year plan and roadmap to move the organization towards an innovative approach to skills and capabilities management across the employee lifecycle including assessments, talent acquisition, onboarding, employee and leadership development, performance management, talent planning, rewards, and Inclusive Diversity and Equity practices.
• Define and execute the change strategy to bring Allstate to a skills‑driven organization.
• Implement a skills taxonomy and ontology (relationship between adjacent skills) and a common way of validating skills and capabilities across functions to lay the groundwork for making decisions about work and workers based more on skills/capabilities and less on title/tenure.
• Manage a team that is focused on identifying and executing opportunities to infuse the talent marketplace/skills and capabilities mindset, and performance enablement at every level of the enterprise and ensure strong executive sponsorship.
• Build strategic relationships and socialization of new ways of viewing talent profiles and mobility across Allstate businesses, Talent Management Center of Excellences, and HR business partners. This means guiding strategies to assess and develop skills across Allstate. Surface skills insights across talent practices, educating leaders on cross functional opportunities.
• Create and execute a plan using talent AI (Artificial Intelligence) and automation to identify critical skills and capabilities that exist within Allstate today and how they compare to our competition and market, to plan, adapt and forecast changing skills landscape.
• Partner with Technology and HR leadership to define, support, and evolve the systems and tools needed to bring a skills infrastructure to life.

• Strong executor with understanding of emerging research, leading practices, and commercial software solutions for delivering optimal skills‑based organization results, skills taxonomy and ontology.
• Strong analytical and data‑driven mindset with demonstrated ability to use data and measurable insights to inform decisions while promoting others to do the same.
• Fluent in digital strategies and technological advancements such as working with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning – strongly preferred.
• Deep expertise in HR and integrated talent management best practices and learning experience design with the ability to build sustainable long‑term strategies.
• Demonstrated track record of implementing a vision for seamless, integrated Talent Management practices to know and grow talent in support of key business priorities, including proactive, predictive solutions to support transformation.
• Strong change agility – thrives in a complex, fast‑paced, rapidly evolving environment, and has led through transformation changes, developing a compelling vision and executing against a plan.
• Lifelong learner, with a passion for developing talent and leadership at all levels.
• Naturally courageous point of view and an analytical approach to problem‑solving with speed, without sacrificing creativity.
• Confident and decisive leadership style, along with an emphasis on intense collaboration and communication on all levels.
• Authentic, transparent, and honest approach…