Job Summary
Lead Talent and Organizational Development Consultant who plays a critical role in driving talent enterprise talent growth, strengthening leadership capability, and aligning organizational design and culture with business strategy. This position is responsible for designing, implementing, managing and evaluating enterprise talent development programs, including performance management to support employee growth, engagement, and retention at Alliant Energy.
What you will do
- Develop, implement, lead and facilitate enterprise-wide training and development programs and tools tailored to organizational needs, focusing on building leadership capabilities and critical professional skills.
- Lead organizational development strategies that leverage change management, organizational design, and culture initiatives to ensure alignment with strategic and tactical business objectives and successful execution of organizational change and transformation.
- Accelerate leadership successor readiness by providing counsel on talent identification, skill gap identification, development planning, and execution while establishing coaching and mentoring programs to support employee growth, career progression and long-term development.
- Design, implement and lead performance management systems that cultivate a high-performance culture, providing employees with the support needed to successfully achieve team and organizational goals.
- Develop and lead strategies based on survey insights to foster a positive, inclusive, and high-performing organizational culture aligned with company values.
- Establish analytics and metrics to measure program performance and improve talent management strategies.
- Maintain awareness of current trends across talent management to bring continuous improvement to practices aligned to the employee experience model and leverage digital technology wherever practical.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders to advance and strengthen organizational culture and drive employee engagement.
- Collaborate with HR business partners to enhance performance and develop future leaders, ensuring user-centric processes and programs.
- Engage in other duties as needed that support our Values and help deliver on our Purpose to serve customers and build stronger communities.
Education Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology or related area.
Experience Requirements
- 8+ years of Talent Management and/or Organizational Development expertise, including talent development, facilitation, performance management, succession planning, change management, organizational design, employee experience models, and survey/feedback models.
- Experience developing and managing projects from start to finish with measurable results and operational impact.
Other Requirements
- Willingness to travel, including occasional overnight stays.
- Excellent organizational and project management skills with exceptional attention to detail.
- Demonstrated knowledge of business operations, management practices and principles, and employee engagement trends and practices.
- Ability to establish rapport, buy-in and trust of key stakeholders; to build alignment and influence adoption of new concepts and methodologies.
- Clear and effective communication with a wide variety of internal and external audiences.
- Competency in needs assessment, instructional design, facilitation, performance measurement and evaluation, and use of adult learning principles.
- Proficiency in creating and delivering presentations to convey information.
- Ability to work effectively in a collaborative and inclusive work environment.
Key Skills
- Change Management
- Consulting
- Employee Engagement
- Organization Transformation
- Performance Management
- Project and Program Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Talent Management
Benefits
Competitive compensation, comprehensive health and retirement benefits, tuition reimbursement and paid time off, plus participation in an annual incentive program.
Pay Range
$95,500.00 - $131,000.00 (annual incentive program applicable); final salary offered will generally fall within this range and is dependent on various factors including responsibilities, experience, skill set, internal pay equity and other relevant qualifications.
Equal Opportunity Employer
Alliant Energy and its subsidiaries are committed to creating a culture of belonging and are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. An applicant’s qualifications are considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other basis prohibited by law. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a background check and a drug screen where applicable.