Lao Talent Manager

LAO Talent Manager

**Job Summary**:
This position will partner with the LAO leadership teams to provide Talent Management strategy and actionable plans in pursuit of achieving and exceeding business goals. Specifically, this role will be responsible for accelerating talent building at Kimberly Clark, by working closely with all levels of the organization to:

- Ensure flawless execution of Global Talent COE initiatives in the region.
- Set and implement the short mid-term learning, talent management, performance management, I&D initiatives that respond to regional functions specific needs in addition to the global strategic talent plan.
- Co-create with other Talent Leads, in learning, career and leadership development, employee experience, and culture to ensure that K-C Talent, in a disciplined way, results into growth and performance for the business.
- Promote simplification, alignment, and synergy across the matrix (regional functions) in order to deliver with speed and ensure a robust pipeline of capable and diverse talent.
- Continuously engage and activate great interactions and experiences for talent to grow and development.
- Contribute to shareholder value and customer experience through strategic investment in people.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead talent management, culture and organization strategies and projects activation across the regional function to support the business and people strategy and priorities. This includes: Performance Management, Career Development, GM Accelerator, Talent Review, Succession Planning, Talent Slating, Learning/Development, I&D, Change Management/Org Design, Workforce Planning and implications for Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement and Leadership Development.
- Translate the global talent activation strategy into a Regional Function talent activation plan and provide talent solutions across the region consistent with a 70-30 global-local emphasis.
- Build and maintain close working relationships with the global and regional COEs, HR leaders, regional and local business leaders and regional talent leaders across the enterprise to understand key business objectives, priorities, and direction.
- Effectively manage a team of Subregional Talent Leads/partners and provide partnership to the senior HR leaders and business executives.
- Socialize annual Talent Activation Plan and roadmap with key internal stakeholders to ensure collective leadership input and alignment for executive leadership approval.
- Provide operational and performance metrics of programs and services, monitoring and communicating the impact of offerings on key metrics within the Region and in alignment with BU OGISM, HR OGISM.
- Own and Control Talent budget flawless execution.
- Review and analyze business unit data to identify trends with accountability for establishing and driving People Strategy Dashboard metrics and recommending solutions to improve metric results across business unit.

**Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s Degree required.
- 6+ years of experience in talent management, in a matrixed organization with multiple lines of business.
- Effective team leadership and people management experience and possess the ability to articulate and support the vision, and influence across teams over which that incumbent has no direct accountability.
- Ability to collaborate, influence and build relationships with all levels within the organization.
- Innovative and creative problem solver to explore new approaches to talent programs and metrics to measure of effectiveness of programs.
- Experience managing a budget.
- Strong project management and process management skills.
- Superior verbal, written, presentation, influence, and facilitation skills.
- Able to manage with ambiguity and autonomy.

**Critical Skills**:

- Business acumen
- In-depth understanding of the goals, directions and cultures of the units / organization served.
- Business / process / performance consulting
- Change Management / Influencing
- Executive and Team Leader Performance Coaching
- Organizational Design and Effectiveness
- Group Presentation and Facilitation
- Talent Selection and Retention
- Project Management
- Strong analytical and abstract thinking skills.

Kimberly-Clark and its well-known global brands are an indispensable part of life for people in more than 175 countries. Every day, 1.3 billion people - nearly a quarter of the world's population - trust K-C brands and the solutions they provide to enhance their health, hygiene, and well-being. With brands such as Kleenex, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Kotex, and Depend, Kimberly-Clark holds No.1 or No. 2 share positions in more than 80 countries. With more than 140 years of history of innovation, we believe in recruiting the best people and empowering them do their best work. If fresh thinking and a passion to win inspire you, come Unleash Your Power at Kimberly-Clark.

Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will r