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HR Manager - Corporate Functions
4 years ago
Job Title: HR Manager – Corporate Functions
Reporting To: VP, HR
Department: Human Resources
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Your Mission
Provide Human Resources business partnership to assigned client groups within Activision Blizzard’s corporate shared services groups. Assigned client groups could include (but are not limited to) Finance, Legal, HR, Communications, IT, Facilities, Marketing, and others. Work with business leaders in all aspects of the people strategy, including the development and execution of HR initiatives.
This role includes but is not limited to the following tasks/duties*:
- Work with leaders to understand their organization and people needs, build effective HR strategies to support those needs and execute on plans with actions that tie back to the team’s goals and HR objectives
- Own the talent agenda; provide full scope HR partnership to leaders including: executive coaching, employee relations, incentive and compensation actions, structure and leveling, employee engagement and culture development, organizational design, change management, employee communications, performance management and people development
- Influence leadership to make decisions that achieve their objectives while acting in the best interest of the company
- Partner closely with HR corporate centers of excellence to design and deliver best-in-class solutions
- Create workforce plans that support the function’s strategy and empower the talent acquisition team to deliver on recruiting plans and needs
- Develop talent and succession plans; investigate trends from talent assessments and leadership input to address capability/succession gaps; ensure talent plans are referenced and used throughout the year
- Identify levers to drive employee engagement across assigned corporate groups, coaching managers and employees to own their engagement
- Provide analysis and recommendations for organizational change, help set direction and provide appropriate resources
- Build relationships with leaders to ensure proactivity in engaging and retaining talent
- Assess/Identify HR strategy/policy/process improvements as needed and work with the HR team to implement
- Proactively identify future team needs and develop long-term plans to support business objectives
- Develop the overall HR function, ensuring appropriate representation of assigned functions while creating new HR processes, systems and approaches that progress the company as a whole
- Manage other special projects on an as needed basis
Player Profile
- Degree educated
- 4+ years in progressively responsible HR roles, preferably in a corporate environment supporting corporate functions at a high-tech, CPG or creative company
- Deep familiarity and understanding of all areas of the Human Resources function
- Experience working with and influencing senior executives
- Demonstrated success operating as a strategic HR business partner
- Ability to build relationships, credibility and trust with employees and management
- Business-oriented communication with strong executive presence, including a demonstrated history of developing/delivering senior-level presentations and supporting senior leaders
- Able to tailor messages to a variety of audiences, craft complex communications for all levels within client groups and convey updates and training presentations to small or large groups
- Ability to translate business objectives/priorities into a corresponding people plan
- Highly collaborative team player with other HR team members, employees, and managers
- Ability to work independently in ambiguous and uncertain environments
- Proactive problem-solving orientation
- Ability to conceptualize, plan, and implement new projects and programs
Your Platform
We’re headquartered in Santa Monica, California, housing multiple teams across many disciplines of Marketing, PR, Sales, Supply Chain and other corporate functions such as HR, IT, Legal, Facilities and Finance. Santa Monica is the nerve center of our company, where the best ideas combine with unrivalled rigor to create the biggest and best entertainment experiences in the world.
Our World
Activision Blizzard, Inc. is the world’s largest interactive entertainment company, with operations across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are home to some of the most beloved entertainment franchises including Call of Duty®, Skylanders®, World of Warcraft®, Overwatch®, Diablo®, Candy Crush™, and Bubble Witch™. Our combined entertainment network delights hundreds of millions of monthly active users across the globe, making us the largest gaming network on the planet!
We’re proud to be included as one of FORTUNE’s "100 Best Companies To Work For®” for five consecutive years and for having received a perfect score on the 2019 Corporate Equality Index released by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the educational arm of the nation’s largest LGBTQ civil rights organization. We've earned a spot on FORTUNE’s "World’s Best Employers," “Most Admired Companies,” and “Future 50” lists, in addition to, being ranked one of Fast Company's World’s Most Innovative Companies in Gaming for three years in a row. Our global employees are some of the best and brightest talents across engineering, entertainment, media, and technology. #AB
The video game industry and therefore our business is fast-paced and will continue to evolve. As such, the duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and relationships with industry partners.
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