Manager, Talent Management

Job Summary

The Manager of Talent Management Experience at Otsuka is a pivotal role responsible for leading and enhancing the talent management processes within the organization. This role involves leading programs to improve employee experience, drive talent development, and ensure program excellence in talent management practices. The manager will oversee as Program Lead the Talent Marketplace Program and Leaders for Life Mentorship Program, as well as support functions including succession planning and selection and assessment initiatives under the guide of senior leadership.

This role reports to the Director of Talent Management with strong partnership to Enterprise Leadership Development and Inclusion and Belonging leader as well as Selection, Assessment and Performance Management leader.

Talent Management Support

• Collaborate to evolve processes that drive efficiency, simplification and optimize practices to drive enterprise impact in partnership with the Talent Management Leader and Leadership team.
• Support comprehensive talent management strategies, succession planning administration, and a robust pipeline of future leaders overall. Succession planning support includes but is not limited to employee development tracking, strategy support, data insights, PPT creation, and road-map development.

Talent Marketplace

• Support administration of Talent Marketplace and Mentorship Program under guidance of senior leadership, ensuring it effectively matches employees with opportunities that align with their skills and career aspirations.
• Continuously evaluate and improve the Talent Marketplace to enhance user experience and program efficiency.
• Provide overall program management which includes but not limited to thought partnership and collaboration to the senior leader on the design, communications, long-term planning, and outcomes aligned to business strategy, partnerships across PBS and non-PBS functions (i.e., total rewards, mobility, workforce planning, legal, compliance, etc.), resources, toolkits, and other for effective team delivery.
• Includes change management, partnership with Change & Comms teams, HRIS, and potentially IT/Vendor support for potential systems and/or integrations.
• Influence without authority with participants, people leaders, HRBPs, and others.
• Help drive insights from KPIs metrics for program effectiveness, pivot as appropriate based on data.

Mentorship Program

• Support the responsibility to oversee the Mentorship Program (Leaders for Life) to foster employee development and engagement in alignment with PBS development, onboarding, culture and engagement strategies.
• Monitor program effectiveness and make data-driven recommendations to maximize impact.

Selection and Assessment

• Collaborate with the Selection and Assessment Leader to support coaching, 360‑degree feedback processes, and skill mapping initiatives.
• Ensure assessment tools and processes are effective and aligned with organizational goals.
• Includes support and ownership of coaching data and analytics in partnership with the leader of selection and assessment.
• Includes but not limited to other initiatives.

Program Excellence

• Maintain program documentation and ensure compliance with established processes to help drive program excellence.
• In partnership with HRIS, utilize data analytics to measure the effectiveness of talent management initiatives and inform decision for the Talent Management leader and leadership team to analyze for potential future programmatic evolutions.
• Partner to provide input to HRIS (in partnership with the Talent Management leader) to create a one holistic Talent Management dashboard which includes but not limited to succession, performance management, leadership development, inclusion and belonging, coach, selection and assessment, and talent experiences which will provide a total holistic story to inform talent strategies with the business.
• Responsible for exceptional day‑to‑day task execution of all responsible programs, initiatives and projects.

Stakeholder Engagement

• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders across the organization to ensure alignment and support for talent…