Enterprise Skills-Based Talent Development Manager
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Enterprise talent development manager designing skills governance and workforce transformation at Northrop Grumman. Integrating skills frameworks across HR systems and enabling development, mobility, and career pathways.
Responsibilities:
- Design and maintain Northrop Grumman’s skills-based talent development governance model, including standards, processes, and decision rights
- Define and curate enterprise and functional skills taxonomies, proficiency levels, and role profiles aligned to business strategy
- Partner with HR technology teams to integrate skills structures into Workday, Eightfold, and talent systems
- Establish the skills-based governance model and lead working-team and committee operations
- Oversee job family and segment representatives’ skills review, approval, calibration, and profile-management activities
- Translate business and workforce strategies into skills-based talent development roadmaps and prioritized initiatives
- Identify critical roles and skills and recommend development, acquisition, and mobility strategies
- Lead the evolution from role-based to skills-based staffing, development, internal mobility, and career pathways
- Engage HR partners, business leaders, and Centers of Excellence to build sponsorship and alignment
- Develop and execute communication and change-management approaches
- Facilitate workshops and working sessions to refine skills frameworks and talent pathways
- Define and track workforce-transformation and skills-based talent-development metrics
- Use data, feedback, and committee input to improve governance models, processes, and programs
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree and at least 8 years of relevant experience in HR, talent management, learning & development, workforce planning, or organizational development OR Master’s degree and at least 6 years of relevant experience in those areas
- Experience leading large-scale talent or workforce transformation initiatives in a complex, matrixed environment
- Demonstrated ability to design and implement governance structures or standards across multiple stakeholder groups
- Strong stakeholder management, communication, and facilitation skills
- Experience with skills-based talent management, including skills taxonomies, role/skills architectures, and proficiency models
- Hands-on experience with HR and skills platforms such as Eightfold and/or Talent Design
- HR systems and data literacy
- Experience leveraging people analytics or workforce data to inform talent decisions and measure impact
- Ability to travel 25% of the time
- U.S. citizenship is required for positions with a government clearance and certain other restricted positions
Benefits:
- Discretionary bonus eligibility
- Health insurance coverage
- Life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Savings plan
- Company-paid holidays
- Paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business
- Virtual remote work arrangement
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