Selection Assessment Strategy Leader

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Job Function:

Human Resources

Job Sub Function:

Talent Management

Job Category:

Professional

All Job Posting Locations:

New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States of America

Job Description:

Johnson & Johnson is recruiting for a Selection Assessment Strategy Leader, located in New Brunswick, NJ.

The Selection Assessment Strategy Leader will help shape and strengthen our global strategy for how we assess and select candidates throughout the hiring process.

This role will report to the Executive Talent Assessment and Strategy Leader and serve as a key member of the Global Talent Management team. This role will partner closely with Talent Acquisition, HR, business leaders, and technology partners to shape science-based, fair, legally compliant, and globally scalable talent selection assessment practices to elevate our quality of hire and deliver engaging experiences for our candidates, hiring managers, and recruiters.

Key Responsibilities:

Selection Assessment Strategy & Governance

• Help shape and execute our global selection assessment strategy ensuring solutions for across the hiring process are inclusive, accessible, fair, and deliver on science-backed decision-making
• Advise and influence without authority on new selection assessment technologies using AI, understanding candidate, recruiter, and hiring team personas, implications of technology decisions, and impacts to compliance with relevant regulations.
• Proactively identify next-in-class selection assessment practices and solutions to elevate our company's hiring strategy as technology continues to disrupt the assessment space.
• Experiment with, and conduct evaluations of, new selection assessment practices to test and find effective, innovative, and transformative solutions that enhance hiring leader decision making and candidate experience
• Shape and execute a global governance strategy and practice on enterprise selection assessments ensuring their validity, reliability, and fairness and in compliance with global and regional regulations and governing bodies

Business Partner Consultation

• Provide regional advising and selection assessment solutions to meet business challenges
• Collaborate with leaders in Talent Acquisition, Global Talent Management, and Business Unit HR in helping to meet business needs through selection assessment
• Influence across the organization without authority to ensure best practices in selection assessment and hiring while advancing Talent Acquisition as a function
• Maintain knowledge, network, and expertise in internal/external best practices in talent assessment methodologies for selection, recruitment, and assessment.

Technology & ATS Integration

• Partner with HR Digital and IT to design and optimize ATS workflows that support structured, compliant hiring decisions
• Advocate for enhancements and automation that improve selection quality and user experience.

Qualifications:

Education:

• Master's degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology Required; PhD in Industrial/Organizational Psychology preferred

Experience and Skills:

Required:

• 6+ years work experience in the Selection Assessment or Talent Management space
• Expertise the assessment space including a knowledge of psychometrics, global regulations
• Strong analytic acumen and the ability to derive insights and storytell with data
• Experience leading assessment initiatives and governance processes, including validation
• Experience with global projects and lau