Senior Manager: Skills-Driven Organization

The world isn’t standing still, and neither is Allstate. We’re moving quickly, looking across our businesses and brands and taking bold steps to better serve customers’ evolving needs. That’s why now is an exciting time to join our team. You’ll have opportunities to take risks, challenge the status quo and shape the future for the greater good.

 

You’ll do all this in an environment of excellence and the highest ethical standards – a place where values such as integrity, inclusive diversity and accountability are paramount. We empower every employee to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live. Our people are our greatest strength, and we work as one team in service of our customers and communities.

 

Everything we do at Allstate is driven by a shared purpose: to protect people from life’s uncertainties so they can realize their hopes and dreams. For more than 89 years we’ve thrived by staying a step ahead of whatever’s coming next – to give customers peace of mind no matter what changes they face. We acted with conviction to advocate for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws. We help give survivors of domestic violence a voice through financial empowerment. We’ve been an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, digital photo claims and, more recently, device and identity protection.

 

We are the Good Hands. We don’t follow the trends. We set them.

Job Summary:

At Allstate, we recognize that workplace agility and flexibility are paramount in today's dynamic business landscape. We are dedicated to pioneering innovative ways of working and fostering the growth of talent internally. This means establishing a Skills-Driven Organization (SDO) that places skills at the center of talent practices.  In a Skills-Driven Organization, the focus is on nurturing a culture of continuous learning, adapting to changing demands, and aligning individual and team skills with the organization's goals Our goal is to swiftly identify skill strengths and gaps and empower our workforce through strategic upskilling initiatives, ensuring readiness for whatever the future holds. 

 

This is a unique career opportunity to shape the future of work and talent management. If you are passionate about revolutionizing traditional talent practices, embracing workplace agility, and driving cultural transformation, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey. 

 

The senior manager of SDO will lead a team of specialists supporting this new operating model and way of thinking regarding talent development, as well as bring skills and capabilities mindset to life by executing a multi-year strategy. This individual is responsible for focusing on skills and capabilities, uncoupling work from formal job descriptions, and uncoupling workers from being viewed as job holders. This skills-driven approach will allow Allstate to tap the full range of employees' skills to achieve desired outcomes, solve problems, and base talent decisions on capabilities instead of title and tenure—from hiring to rewards, workforce planning, and more.  

 

This individual is recognized as a subject-matter expert in building a skills-driven organization, and will support creating a holistic platform experience where employees go to get upskilling, mentor matches, and opportunity matches like gigs. The Senior Manager reports directly to the Head of Talent Management.  This role is mostly remote, with occasional travel as needed.   

Key Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates mastery of best practices skills strategy & architecture and program management processes that contribute to the improvement of these processes at Allstate  
• Demonstrates mastery in problem solving and effective interaction with senior management  
• Takes the lead role to execute in highly pressurized situations when there is a need to communicate critical project information while remaining sensitive to organizational politics  
• Drives project execution on time and on budget. Provides direction and oversight throughout project lifecycle to project team to meet applicable business requirements 
• Engages appropriate stakeholders in risk identification and mitigation 
• Drives skills-driven agenda and facilitates projects/program steering committee meetings; delivers project communication and issues in an easily understood simplified style to any audience 
• Execute and measure the progress on a phased multi-year plan and strategy for a skills-driven organization identifies and deploys ready-now talent to step into open positions globally at Allstate.  
• Define and execute the change strategy to bring Allstate to a skills-driven organization.   
• Implement a skills taxonomy and ontology (relationship between adjacent skills) and a common way of validating skills and capabilities acro