Selection & Assessment-Senior Manager

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You will be doing exciting, cutting-edge work to build skills strategy and talent solutions that support Verizon's innovative and customer-focused workforce. You will be a member of a center of excellence team that is responsible for creating and implementing strategy and solutions around skills that support the talent and careers strategy.

• Building skills strategy that enables Verizon's talent management strategy in areas such as recruiting, training, internal mobility and careers, and performance.

• Actively lead and project manage highly complex, cross-functional projects focused on strategically creating, maturing, and applying skills strategy across talent management.

• Leading project teams that include internal and external skills partners, internal genAI platforms, and analytics teams and tools to research, evaluate, innovate, and build out system-driven solutions in support of Verizon's skills-based organizational strategy.

• Influencing and setting standards for external skills vendor partners.

• Partnering with best in class assessment vendors and other Talent teams and Centers of Excellence (Learning & Development, Talent Management GPS, Talent Planning, Talent Acquisition, Strategic Workforce Planning, and Performance Management & Development) to identify and implement assessments for employee development that are aligned with Verizon's overall skills and talent strategy.

• Leading/managing large-scale cross-functional skills initiatives (including skills proficiency, intelligence, validation, and research).

• Leading needs analysis and/or job analysis/competency modeling to identify skills gaps.

• Compiling and/or conducting benchmarking and reviews of existing skills and assessments research literature to support strategy.

• Partnering with and/or project managing teams of niche professionals with subject matter expertise in psychometric assessment/measurement, skills/competencies, and coaching.

• Developing implementation guidelines, processes, communications, and training to support skill-based solutions.

• Creating and conducting success measurement/ program evaluation studies to demonstrate ROI for strategies, tools, and programs.

• Serving as an expert resource for questions regarding assessment considerations.

• Partnering with appropriate experts/vendors to ensure solutions are implemented in compliance with all relevant legal, regulatory, audit, and professional requirements (e.g., Uniform Guidelines, OFCCP, SIOP, APA Standards), including technical documentation and analysis.

• Leading and managing assessment vendors.

• Supporting maintenance of Verizon's evergreen job taxonomy (e.g., maintaining inventory of jobs, making recommendations, and influencing decisions on additions/updates to taxonomy, etc.) as needed.

• Supporting the Contributing to HR transformation projects (growing talent strategy, helping infuse skills in the talent ecosystem, shaping future priority, and management of career-focused tools in Verizon's Talent GPS program) as needed.

In this hybrid role, you may sit in any Verizon hub location.

• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.

• Experience designing and executing data analyses and applying inferential statistics.

• Experience with workplace assessments.

• Experience in global learning and development strategy and evaluation.

• Experience applying assessment practices/methodology to talent management or training.

• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

• Ph.D. or Masters in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resource Management, or related field.

• Consulting experience in selection and assessment (e.g. corporate HR setting, external consulting firm).

• Experience with AI/Machine learning skills vendors, technologies, and methodologies.

• Experience with Qualtrics survey design, administration, and analysis capabilities.

• Experience with validation practices.

• Experience project managing and implementing large-scale learning and development and/or assessment-related projects in a corporate environment.

• Experience leading a team and/or coaching/developing employees.

• Experience creating and/or delivering executive presentations on relevant topics.

• Experience with professional standards and practice in employment testing and measurement (e.g., Uniform Guidelines, OFCCP, SIOP, APA Standards).

• Experience in Excel, SPSS, SAS, or other statistical packages for data/trend analysis.

• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Excel, and Google Sheets.

• Strong understanding of employee development and related processes, tools, and techniques.

• Strong strategic thinking skills.

• Demonstrated ability to serve as a consultative advisor within areas of expertise.

• Strong story-telling and presentation-building skills.

• Excellent project management skills; ability to manage multiple large-scale projects.

• Excellent critical thinking and decision-making skills when working under pressure.

• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to relate to, communicate with, build alliances with, and influence stakeholders and senior executives.

• Persistence in driving ideas and delivering quality solutions and deliverables against tight deadlines.

• Ability to communicate data-based information effectively and concisely to corporate stakeholders. (bonus if you can conduct qualitative and inferential statistical analyses).

• Persistence in driving ideas and delivering quality solutions and deliverables against tight deadlines.

• Experience interacting with and/or managing vendors.

• Experience/ability to lead large-scale talent management and organizational effectiveness processes.

• Experience/ability to design skills strategy and/or infrastructure for sizable populations.

• Experience/ability to design talent strategies in the absence of industry standards.

• Strong verbal, written, and presentation skills.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every "even better" qualification listed above.

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