Sr. Manager, HR Enablement for Global Talent Organization

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world’s largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We’re also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that’s built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

Job Description

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. 

We are looking for a Sr. Manager, HR Enablement for Global Talent Organization to lead and drive large portfolios of strategic initiatives and projects with cross-functional teams and stakeholders across our talent and business organizations. A critical focus of this role will be to plan enterprise-wide strategic initiatives with significant complexity and dependencies. Alongside senior Talent leaders, this role is expected to manage and mitigate risks and roadblocks with foresight and agility to meet business goals and manage a team of project managers working across other key initiatives.  

Responsibilities: 

Strategy & Planning 

• In partnership with executive sponsors, architects shared vision with corresponding project/portfolio plan with clear milestones and success metrics, ensuring alignment with broader company strategy 
• Provides strategic roadmaps for multi-year projects and portfolios and understands how to connect actions, decisions and milestones to dependent work in support of the larger business outcomes 
• Is aware of and contributes to executive level decisions regarding direction, priorities, and plans that impact HR programs 
• Strengthen and socialize the LinkedIn Project Management Methodology and understand the connection points to our LinkedIn Change Management Methodology as well as key stakeholders that will be critical to the success of this team 

Execution 

• Leads execution at a strategic level across company-wide initiatives to achieve program objectives  
• Leads decision-making timelines, drives program deliverables, aligns workstream teams, key stakeholders and sponsors 
• Proactively manages dependencies, detects misalignment and acts as point of escalation  
• Works in coordination with the change management team to assess needs, impacts and approach 

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management 

• Understands stakeholder motivations and reflects stakeholder needs in program plan and execution 
• Interprets and filters all project communications into concise and clear overviews that are customized for stakeholders at differing levels  
• Effectively provides clarity on the business benefits or tradeoffs of a program, acting as a key influencer to executive discussions on priorities and resourcing  
• Builds and strengthens strategic relationships across different levels of the company to drive success 
• Influences others to execute jointly on a change management strategy, and fosters cross group collaboration 
• Partner closely across Talent Orgs, HR Tech Partners, Change Practitioners, Process Excellence, Business Owners and Tech Team to ensure that critical outcomes are met for each project 

People Leader 

• Manage and coach team members on their projects and deliverables 
• Responsible for the performance management of assigned team 
• Recruit, onboard and develop top talent of professional project managers  

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:  

• BA/BS degree and 9+ years of experience in enterprise-wide human resource programs and/or projects or equivalent experience, OR 12+ years of experience within Project Management and/or Management Consulting in a matrixed, cross-functional environment. 
• 7 years of experience in a leadership role with or without direct reports. 

  Preferred Qualifications:   

• Applied experience and demonstrated track record with end-to-end project management methodologies & frameworks for cross-functional initiatives, with a preference for individual with experience working in an HR environment 
• Multiple experiences helming large-scale projects and/or programs through various instances – starting with whitespace, managing through a turnaround, and recalibrating through a pivot 
• Ability to navigate work at all altitudes with a knack