Enterprise Talent Process Leader & Advisor

Fortive; Everett (WA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus eligibility

Job summary

Fortive is seeking an Enterprise Talent Process Leader who partners with OpCos to execute enterprise talent processes, governance, and continuous improvement. You will facilitate talent reviews, succession planning, and capability assessments, using data-driven insights to drive action.

This role does not own OpCo strategy but enables outcomes through analytics, cross-functional collaboration, and Fortive Business System principles across the talent ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree preferred.
• 8+ years of experience in talent management, workforce planning, or related disciplines.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating talent reviews, succession planning, organizational effectiveness, or leadership discussions with senior stakeholders.
• Strong consulting, influencing, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to diagnose organizational issues, evaluate alternatives, and recommend practical solutions.
• Strong analytical capability with experience translating data into executive insights and recommendations.
• Experience operating effectively in a global, matrixed environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end execution of OTA, talent reviews, succession planning, capability reviews, and related enterprise talent processes across assigned OpCos.
• Create clear process plans, roles, timelines, tools, and decision requirements that enable high-quality preparation and discussion.
• Facilitate high-quality talent discussions that translate into accountable actions, clear ownership, measurable outcomes, and sustained follow-through.
• Partner with OpCo HR leaders to identify critical talent, leadership, succession, skill, and capability risks and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Guide leaders through capability and talent gap countermeasures (build, buy, borrow, bot, bounce).
• Leverage workforce, talent, succession, mobility, and business data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and recommendations.
• Drive data quality and governance across talent profiles, talent cards, development plans, succession plans, and related talent systems.
• Increase visibility of talent across Fortive by supporting talent mobility, talent sharing, succession pipelines, and enterprise talent discussions.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to identify enterprise hiring themes, emerging skill requirements, workforce risks, and pipeline opportunities.
• Partner with Talent Enablement to convert enterprise capability gaps and development priorities into scalable learning and leadership solutions.
• Identify common challenges and opportunities across OpCos and elevate enterprise recommendations to T-PAC and HR leadership.
• Apply Fortive Business System principles to simplify, standardize, measure, and continuously improve talent processes.

Skills

Consulting

Facilitation

Influencing

Stakeholder management

Analytical thinking

Global/matrix environment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Fortive Business System (FBS)

Job description

Fortive is seeking an Enterprise Talent Process Leader who partners with OpCos to execute enterprise talent processes, governance, and continuous improvement. You will facilitate talent reviews, succession planning, and capability assessments, using data-driven insights to drive action.

This role does not own OpCo strategy but enables outcomes through analytics, cross-functional collaboration, and Fortive Business System principles across the talent ecosystem.