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This role leads program strategy and execution across all performance cycles, continuous listening, employee engagement, and related talent experiences.\nThis role uses data, user feedback, and critical thinking to identify friction, challenge unnecessary complexity, prioritize enhancements, and tell a clear story about what should change and why.\nResponsibilities\nMaintain the roadmap and continuous-improvement initiatives for talent programs. Use business priorities, employee and manager feedback, data, and cycle retrospectives to identify and prioritize enhancements, then lead cross-functional initiatives through planning, implementation, adoption, and post-launch review. 30%\nPlan and deliver goal setting, review cycles, continuous listening, and employee engagement programs, including timelines, communications, training, enablement, action planning, and stakeholder coordination. Serve as a thought partner to HRBPs and leaders on program intent, expectations, and adoption. 25%\nServe as the functional owner for SuccessFactors Performance & Goals and related talent program experiences. Translate business and user needs into clear system requirements; partner with HR Technology on configuration, reporting, testing, automation, and release decisions; and ensure system behavior supports program intent. 15%\nUse survey, adoption, program, and operational data to identify patterns, root causes, opportunities, and risks. Build concise, audience-appropriate stories and recommendations for HR and business leaders, and establish measures to evaluate whether changes improve the manager and employee experience. 15%\nChallenge processes, simplify guidance and forms, identify opportunities for automation, and balance usability, compliance, data integrity, and system constraints. Create practical resources that help managers and employees apply effective performance and development practices. 10%\nPartner effectively across HR, Corporate Communications, IT, Learning & Organizational Development, Compensation, vendors, and business leaders to deliver consistent talent programs connected to D&Z’s culture, values, and priorities. 5%\nKSAs (Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities)\nExperience leading performance management, employee engagement, engagement surveys, and related talent practices, with enough broader HR knowledge to connect programs across the employee lifecycle. Experience with SuccessFactors or a comparable HR/talent platform strongly preferred. \nStrategic program thinking with the ability to connect talent practices to business priorities and employee experience. Experience translating business needs into system requirements, leading user acceptance testing, managing vendors, implementing process improvements, or supporting HR technology enhancements. \nStrong program and project management skills, including planning, prioritization, risk management, stakeholder alignment, and execution. \nComfort using SAP SuccessFactors or a comparable HR/talent platform; ability to understand capabilities and constraints and translate program needs into system requirements. \nStrong analytical and critical-thinking skills, including interpreting survey, adoption, and operational data; identifying root causes; and telling a clear story with recommendations. \nCuriosity and a continuous-improvement mindset, including the willingness to question existing processes, simplify the user experience, and pursue practical automation. \nClear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for HRBPs, leaders, managers, employees, and technical partners. \nSound judgment and comfort navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, tradeoffs, and evolving requirements. \nMinimum Qualifications\nBachelor’s Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS) in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field or equivalent experience Required \nMaster’s degree in Arts/Sciences (MA/MS) Preferred \n5+ years of experience in Human Resources, with 3 to 5 years in talent management, performance management, employee engagement, employee listening, HR technology, people analytics, or a related field. Required \nTravel Requirements:\n20% \nCompensation and Benefits\nIn compliance with this state’s pay transparency laws, the salary range for this role is $91,600 - $137,400. This is not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as final offer amount may vary based on factors including but not limited to experience and geographic location. (The specific programs and options available to an employee may vary depending on date of hire, schedule type, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements).\nWe care about our employees and it shows. Our staff receive a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical/Rx, dental and vision coverage; life, AD&D and disability insurance; flexible spending accounts; 100% paid maternity leave for up to 12 weeks, parental leave, family leave, other paid time off; voluntary benefits and discount programs to meet our employees’ individual needs including pet insurance for our furry family members!","description_format":"text","description_chars":5360,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["Parental leave"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Nuclear Energy","Nuclear Engineering"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-27T04:33:55Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 5 · green card filings: 2","filings_12m":5,"filings_prev_12m":7,"green_card_filings_12m":2,"median_offered_wage_usd":138214,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-29T16:27:21+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":90,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.903,"p_room":1,"age_days":2,"expected_fill_days":11,"reasons":["conf:2","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-29T05:49:05Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":137400,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/day-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/day-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-29T18:52:26Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":28014,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-30T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2262003},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2262003"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fday-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fday-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fday-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/day-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fday-zimmermann-manager-talent-programs"}],"agent":{"mcp":"https://alion.io/mcp/jobs","mcp_open":"https://alion.io/mcp/open","next":[{"tool":"get_job","arguments":{"id":3314373}},{"tool":"search_jobs","arguments":{"company":"dayzim.com","detail":"compact"}},{"tool":"match_people","arguments":{"job_id":3314373},"note":"people open to offers who fit this vacancy"}],"note":"The same data through MCP tools: https://alion.io/mcp/open needs no sign-in (compact searches, postings, people); https://alion.io/mcp with an Alion account has everything. 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