Program Lead for Americas - University Recruiting

At HPE, we bring together the brightest minds to create breakthrough technology solutions and advance the way people live and work. Our legacy inspires us as we forge ahead dedicated to helping our customers make their mark on the world.  We’re solving the world’s most complex challenges, and our people are at the forefront of progress.

The Program Lead for Americas - University Recruitment creates, delivers and manages a broad array of talent programs to attract, develop and retain the best leaders and engaged employees. Specific areas include diversity, talent management, performance management, career development, culture and engagement programs, succession planning, executive recruiting and slating, individual and organizational assessment, and executive coaching. Partners with HR and business leaders to align talent strategies to meet business, function and regional priorities. Designs and delivers global diversity initiatives. Analyzes performance, assessment and talent data.

Unique mastery and recognized authority on relevant subject matter knowledge including technologies, theories and techniques. Contributes to the development of innovative principles and ideas. Successfully operates in the most complex disciplines, in which the company must operate to be successful. Provides highly innovative solutions. Leads large, cross-division functional teams or projects that affect the organization's long-term goals and objectives. May participate in cross-division, multi-function teams. Provides mentoring and guidance to lower level employees. Routinely exercises independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and criteria for achieving objectives. Develops strategy and sets functional policy and direction. Acts as a functional manager within area of expertise but does not manage other employees as a primary job function.

Responsibilities:

• Maintains relationships with key leaders at the top of a business unit.
• Identifies recruitment and development program success criteria, designs program strategy, and establishes goals and metrics to measure performance.
• Develops change management strategy spanning across program offerings and facilitates/manages execution in the business.
• Communicates programs to senior leadership, organizes and participates in information summits, and oversees content updates in relevant portals.
• Assesses the ongoing effectiveness of a large and complex program including managing program costs and tracking key metrics.
• Refines strategies and develops new solutions to improve cost efficiency and ensure the program is delivering results that are aligned with the success criteria.
• Manages projects of high complexity that promote the effectiveness of programs.
• Evaluates major process improvement and strategic proposals from within the business and functions to determine enterprise-wide viability.
• Partner with recruitment vendor/RPO for regional recruitment strategy and activities - providing leadership, expertise and influence change
• Support recruitment related activities as needed

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelors Degree required; advanced degree preferred
• Typically 8+ years of experience in an HR function and/or a generalist role.
• Previous experience building and delivering complex programs (recruitment and development) to a large business, preferably global.
• Previous experience in recruitment program or recruitment process design
• Ability to travel up to 10%

Knowledge and Skills:

• Excellent communication skills.
• Demonstrated success executing staffing programs in multiple businesses in which the company competes for talent
• Excellent project management and process development skills.
• Excellent business acumen.
• Excellent budget management and accounting skills.
• Capable of delivering a program to a large employee population.