Career Model Program Lead (Sr. Manager) - Hybrid / Dallas, TX

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Job Description

AECOM is seeking a Career Model Program Lead to join our Global Total Rewards team.  This role will offer flexibility for hybrid work schedules to include a combination of in-office and virtual/telecommute work. 

Core Responsibilities:

Overall Program Stewardship

• Serve as global program manager for the AECOM Career Model, overseeing all core elements:
  • Job Profile Catalogue, including Job Profile Summaries and Job Profile naming conventions  
  • Job Family, Job Family Group, and Job Track structure
  • Job Level Criteria
• Update and/or develop governance and routines for career model maintenance and updates, including Job Profile additions, changes, and enhancements  
• Evaluate level of adoption globally in collaboration with the HR operations team
• Create a strategy in support of improved adoption addressing employee, people manager, and HR stakeholder groups
• Continue to develop education and programming in support of growing adoption, including partnership with the Talent and Communications teams
• Build a Career Model project management structure, streamlining how we approach related projects, including defining clear roles, responsibilities, and stakeholders for the larger project team
• Actively build and leverage diverse project teams to divide and conquer higher urgency items, utilizing the larger HR/Rewards/Talent teams and business leaders
• Actively identify and address evolving Career Model related needs through relationship building and partnership with the business, HR ops, Talent, and Rewards teams and market research/benchmarking
• Working with the Workday/Technology teams to facilitate updates to and maintain the Career Path Navigator

Connecting the Rewards and Talent Teams

• Work closely with the Talent team to continue to evolve the AECOM Career Model in connection with our overall AECOM strategy
• Serve as consultant, advisor, and project team leader or member on joint projects
• Identify interdependencies between Talent and Rewards teams, keeping both teams informed and communicating on overlapping interests and key priorities

Other Key Responsibilities

• Leader on our global Rewards team
• Key COE collaborator responsible for driving consultative, strategic partnership across the enterprise
• Develops and oversees core programming and functions for the COE
• Works closely with the delivery team to ensure programming is supportive and effective
• Works closely with the systems/technology team to deliver and maintain shared systems and tools
• Receives and responds to feedback flowing through/from delivery team 
• Committed and energized to/by:
  • Thinking and acting globally
  • Actively and proactively building relationships with business and HR stakeholders to develop and deliver best in class programming
  • Leveraging available technology to drive efficient and effective process and provide tool based solutions
  • Continuously documenting and improving processes, eliminating manual and duplicative efforts  
  • Cleary and consistently defining the handoff between the Incentive Comp team and the Delivery team on all key items  

Qualifications

Minimum Requirements:

• BA/BS plus at least 10 years of relevant experience including management of a multi-tiered job catalog/framework and career pathing, or demonstrated equivalency of experience and/or education, including at least 2 years of leadership experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Proficiency in Excel including experience with V lookups is strongly preferred
• Experience with similarly large, complex, global organizations is preferred.

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