Manager, Organizational Effectiveness and Talent Management

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Overview:    

The Manager, Organizational Effectiveness and Talent Management will lead the design, enhancement, and delivery of projects and processes related to succession planning, career development, performance management, goal setting, organizational development, and talent insights across the Canadian division. The manager will have significant partnerships across the enterprise and will work closely with counterparts in other countries to drive forward aligned strategies and tools.

Key Responsibilities:                                                                                                             

Talent Management

• Manage talent management projects to support the organization’s strategic imperatives
• Manage talent management, career development and succession planning programs
• Support and drive the talent management program and succession planning process through the evolution of success profiles and organizational capabilities, and ensuring alignment with the strategic direction of The Home Depot
• Cultivate research and benchmarking to create new resources and tools that support our talent planning strategy and initiatives
• Drive data analysis of key roles and work with human resources business partners to align findings to talent framework 
• Assess outcomes of talent planning cycle and use data to improve internal processes and support tools.

Performance Management

• Continue the evolution of the Home Depot’s performance management program (PACE)  that assesses associates' achievement of goals, aligns on current and future priorities, as well as promotes continual career development discussions between associates and their leaders
• Lead the performance management process including developing supporting tools and communications, and overseeing continuous improvement and system changes. 
• Collect and analyze individual, team and divisional data and provide recommendations to help leaders improve performance through goal setting and leader behaviours. 

Organizational Effectiveness, Engagement and Listening

• Support the measurement of associate engagement and provide recommendations to improve the process and tools to align with the strategic direction of the organization
• Lead divisional associate engagement and listening initiatives including post activity analysis, and action planning
• Support the implementation and execution of developmental assessments, including the administration and evaluation, candidate support, technical support, and post assessment coaching / development planning.

Organizational Development & Design

• Support organization change efforts across the company and / or specific business units including organizational design.
• Use organizational analytics to identify structural, process and / or people issues and opportunities. 
• Build organizational capabilities (e.g. cross-functional collaboration, facilitation and change management) by partnering with key stakeholders to embed within the organizational culture. Provide consultation in change management and support implementation of change projects and cross-functional initiatives

Competencies:                                                                                                                       

• Collaborates
• Ensures Accountability
• Develops Talent
• Builds Effective Teams
• Strategic Mindset
• Plans and Aligns
• Manages Complexity                                                                                     

Skills:                                                                                                              

• Data Analysis (quantitative and qualitative) and data driven decision making
• Listening and assessment tools and related technology
• HR analytics
• Organizational design
• HR business partnership
• Employee engagement
• Project and change management
• Organizational skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Advanced communication skills including written, verbal, visual, and data visualization; across multiple platforms, formats, and audience levels.
• Strategic thinking
• Analytical skills
• Adaptability and agility
• Leadership & Coaching
• Facilitation across multi-level audiences and content complexity 

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:                                                                                                                  

• Reports to Senior Manager Leadership Development, Talent Management & Organizational Effectiveness

Travel Requirements:                                                                                                            

• No regular travel requirements

Physical Requirements:                                                                                                                    

• Office related physical requirements

Hybrid Work:                                                                                                             

• Located at the SSC (4 days/week). Home Depot stores or other facilities on as needed basis.

Working Conditions:                                                                                                             

• Office environment

Minimum Education:                                                                                                            

• Post secondary education (completed or in progress) in HR, Learning, Communications or related fields

Minimum Years of Work Experience:                                                                                               

• 3+ years in facilitation across multi level audiences and content complexity 
• 3+ years talent management or organizational development practitioner experience or significant experience leading or contributing to talent and OD programs
• 3+ years as HR partnership role or equivalent leadership experiences
• 5-7 years experience in project and change management.
• 5+ years in data analysis including ability to analyze and summarize qualitative and quantitative data

Minimum Leadership Experience:

• 3-5 years of people leadership experience

Certifications:                                                                                                            

• CHRL or working experience

Other Requirements/Assets:                                                                                                            

• Bilingual an asset