About the Role
Lead the talent and leadership agenda for Pet Nutrition to ensure the division has the necessary leadership capability, succession depth, performance culture, and talent deployment to achieve growth and transformation goals. Translate business strategy into a differentiated talent system that identifies, develops, and deploys leaders to create significant value. Play a critical talent leadership role within broader Petcare with transversal accountabilities.
Responsibilities
- Own the divisional talent strategy, including organizational capabilities, leadership, and strategic talent pipelines, ensuring alignment with the Petcare Talent strategy.
- Coach the Leadership Team to model desired talent behaviors, balancing short-term delivery with long-term pipeline health and fostering a high-performance culture.
- Embed a systemic approach to develop leader capability and accountability, focusing on roles and capabilities that create disproportionate value.
- Identify critical leadership roles and partner to build sustainable succession pipelines with risk mitigation plans.
- Identify high-potential leaders using evidence-based insights and shape development plans to accelerate readiness.
- Drive talent reviews, calibration processes, and strategic deployment decisions across the division.
- Develop and leverage talent insights to inform workforce and leadership decisions in partnership with People Data & Analytics.
- Design, lead, and implement the talent workstream for division-wide transformation programs.
- Anticipate future leadership and capability requirements and develop plans to strengthen organizational readiness.
- Own the divisional performance management philosophy and processes to reinforce desired behaviors and execution discipline.
- Strengthen the quality of performance discussions, calibration, and differentiation.
- Contribute to the Petcare Talent Strategy and ensure alignment and differentiation within the division.
- Prepare the next generation of Petcare leaders through enterprise career experiences and foster effective ways of working.
- Drive identified cross-division talent priorities in North America.
- Own the performance management philosophy for Petcare, providing expertise on using talent and performance data to drive a high-performance culture.
Requirements
- Deep experience in talent strategy, capability, succession, leadership development, performance management, and organizational health.
- Experience in digitizing talent systems and embedding data-led talent intelligence.
- Business insight and credibility, ideally through HR Business Partner experience.
- Experience in a global business supporting large-scale organizational transformation and embedding talent, placement, and performance principles through change.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders with evidence-based recommendations.
- Ability to balance immediate business needs with long-term leadership capability.
Location
- Franklin
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Salary/Compensations
- $192,560 - $264,770
Benefits
- Company bonus
- 401(k) plan
- Company-sponsored medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance plans
- Up to 18 weeks of paid parental leave
- 120 hours of vacation per year
- Paid sick time (40 hours per calendar year)
- 12 paid holidays (96 paid holiday hours)
About the Company
- Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose-driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- A strong focus on learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
