Director, Talent Programs

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Talent Management & Learning

About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Lead and manage talent programs for Transamerica. These include, but not limited to, performance management, leadership events programming, and talent review strategies that align with the organization’s goals and objectives. Lead the Inclusion and Diversity (I&D) strategy to foster a diverse workforce and promote an inclusive culture.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead the organization wide performance management process including goal setting, performance evaluations, and use of feedback mechanisms. 
• Lead the talent review process for senior leadership positions including succession planning and establishing development plans. 
• Conduct regular reviews and analysis of performance data, metrics, and engagement data to identify trends, insights and opportunities for improvement. 
• Support global leadership development events and create local programming as assigned.
• Develop and lead other talent programs to promote retention, diversity, promotion and succession of Transamerica’s talent.
• Lead a team focused on developing and executing inclusion and diversity initiatives within the strategic pillars of workplace, workforce, and marketplace.
• Review external benchmarking and analysis of engagement survey results to help define the Transamerica Inclusion & Diversity (I&D) strategy and create measures for success.
• Enhance the impact and visibility of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• Lead the external recogni