Director, Organizational Talent Advisor

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years, our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

The Director, Organizational Talent Advisor (OTA) is the principal talent advisor to executive leadership within an assigned client group at Allstate and its family of companies. This role partners with business line leadership, other OTAs, and HR Centers of Excellence (COEs), to lead and deliver forward-thinking, high-impact talent initiatives that attract, develop, engage, and retain employees who drive our shared purpose, a culture of belonging, performance, and innovation.
The Director OTA role reports to a VP, Principal Talent Advisor, and the role will support senior leaders within Allstate up to the EVP level. This HR leader must be an innovator and flexible business partner to lead strategic HR initiatives within their assigned client’s organization, driving results and building an innovative culture to help Allstate grow profitably. Of principal importance is ensuring consistent delivery of standardized services and the agile development of new services in support of business priorities unique to this dynamic environment, while also remaining aligned with broader enterprise HR strategies.

As a member of the OTA team, this individual will play a vital role in support of Allstate’s Transformative Growth plan. The successful candidate typically has a minimum of 10 to 15 years of human capital consulting and business partnership experience in complex organizations with a reputation for excellence, as well as experience leading HR for technology enabled, high-growth organizations. They should be skilled in integrating themselves into an existing organization in a diplomatic and productive fashion while being an effective agent for change. Additionally, they should possess a reputation as a strategically oriented leader who delivers results, has proven leadership skills, and strong business acumen.

As a Director, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This may require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.

**As part of Allstate’s transformative growth strategy, we are seeking to fill two Director, Organizational Talent Advisor roles**

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead talent strategy development, focusing on the allocation and deployment of human capital, to maximize talent investment and drive superior execution

• Align Allstate’s HR strategy with key business drivers (i.e.: clients, revenue growth areas, emerging markets and products, operational risk restructure, and people) and enterprise priorities

• Work across HR, with their peers to design and deliver innovative and adaptive talent strategies and products across all aspects of the employee life cycle

• Drive accelerated cultural and operational change within HR to become a more collaborative, analytical, and customer-focused HR product-based function

• Deliver Allstate’s Talent Management system to the business; attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining key talent to drive business growth and transformation imperatives 

• Consults with executive leadership on talent management strategies, and leads/develops a high performing team of talent advisors who deliver those strategies at all levels of the organization

• Lead and develop teams to ensure the OTA function is a high-performing, trusted talent advisor resource within the enterprise.

To effectively accomplish this work, this OTA will exemplify the following skills and behaviors:

• Demonstrate deep knowledge of business priorities to drive business strategies 

• Has led through transformational changes, developing a compelling vision and executing against a plan

• Embeds the use of data and insights in people-related decision making. Analytical, uses data and insights to inform decisions and promotes and environment that does the same.

• Influences up, down and across varying levels of front-line to executive leadership

• Is a natural collaborator who is authentic, transparent, and honest, aligned with company values and leadership principles

• Strong change agility - thrives in a complex, fast paced, rapidly evolving environment. Can shift between thinking strategically and consulting with HR ce