Director of Strategic Initiatives - HCM and Workforce Management Development

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About the Team

We are looking for a Chief of Staff who will serve as a strategic advisor and counsel to the VP of HCM & Workforce Management Engineering and will help drive forward key strategic initiatives to ensure operational excellence. This role will lead all aspects of initiatives that will accelerate business operations and drive business effectiveness and efficiencies across the HCM & Workforce Management Engineering teams while creating and maintaining cross-departmental relationships to enable leadership success.

The successful candidate has a passion for driving continuous improvement and thrives in an employee first, customer centric culture.

About the Role

• Promote operational excellence: identify and execute on opportunities to optimize our organizational systems and processes while bringing together multiple stakeholders to help drive decisions.

• Thought partnership and assisting with defining, planning and orchestrating culture based initiatives across the team.

• Outcome Focused:
  Drive successful outcomes and bring visibility to status and progress of Key Strategic business and operational initiatives and priorities.

• Metrics & Measurement:
  
  Curate the overall story/narrative for all business related metrics through regular interactions with metrics owners to stay informed of all business operations metrics and proactively work to understand data trends and insights.

• Monitors and analyzes trends to provide key insights and integrates these metrics into business and operations reviews.

• Annual Planning:
  Responsible for business planning and providing detailed analysis and key inputs for decision making.

• Communication:
  Orchestrate and develop key communication strategies.

• Coordinate and develop content for team and org-wide meetings and events. Curate and source org specific content for senior management reporting.

• HCM & Workforce Management Employee Recognition Program.

• Develop and implement creative ways to cultivate all types of recognition throughout the organization and ensure representation in the Product and Corporate level recognition as appropriate.

• Design, coordinate and lead HCM & Workforce Management Engineering Professional Development Programs. Develop and implement creative ways to cultivate all types of learning and innovation ideas throughout the organization

• Collaborate across the organization to align OKRs, including cross-team communication and alignment and proactive reporting.

• Involved in program managing all local initiatives with the teams (from Offsites and working with P&P)

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