Performance Strategy & AI Activation Lead

CDW LLC.; Rosemont (IL); On-site; USD 114,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Benefits package

Job summary

CDW LLC. is seeking a Manager, Performance Strategy & AI Activation to shape enterprise performance strategy, govern performance processes, and accelerate AI adoption across the organization.

You will partner with HR, Learning, and business leaders to drive outcomes and ensure the workforce is prepared for the future. The role emphasizes AI fluency, data-driven decisions, and scalable enablement across regions, with responsibility for global process ownership and strategic direction of

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or related field with 5+ years of progressive experience.
• 9+ years of progressive experience in performance management, talent management, organizational effectiveness, HR business partnership, change management, or a related HR discipline.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the Global Process Owner for CDW's enterprise performance management process, including philosophy, design, governance, standards, and continuous improvement.
• Set the strategic direction for how CDW sets goals, prioritizes work throughout the year, measures outcomes, and enables meaningful performance conversations.
• Ensure performance practices reinforce CDW's business strategy, values and commitments, and leadership expectations.
• Evaluate how AI, automation, and evolving ways of working should shape the future of performance management and recommend approaches that clarify where people add value and where technology does.
• Partner with HR Technology to design, configure, and continuously improve performance capabilities within Workday and related tools.
• Use data, adoption metrics, and stakeholder feedback to assess effectiveness, simplify the experience, and increase business impact.
• Partner closely with HR Business Partners and regional Talent teams to drive consistent, high-quality execution across the enterprise.
• Balance global consistency with the flexibility needed for regional, functional, and market-specific requirements.
• Equip leaders and HR teams with guidance, tools, and enablement that improve the quality of performance conversations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on performance philosophy, governance, technology, and adoption.
• Lead enterprise AI activation efforts that turn AI fluency strategy into adoption and sustained behavior change.
• Lead and coordinate CDW's AI Champion network as a scalable source of enablement, engagement, and feedback.
• Partner with Learning, which owns AI fluency strategy and capability development, to reinforce and amplify enterprise priorities.
• Maintain a clear view of organizational AI fluency, adoption barriers, and enablement opportunities, and bring forward ideas to continue building fluency.
• Demonstrate personal AI fluency and actively apply AI to improve productivity, decision-making, and outcomes.

Skills

Program management

Communication

Stakeholder management

HR technology

Workforce data

AI fluency

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Organizational Development, Psychology, or related field

Tools

Workday

Job description

CDW LLC. is seeking a Manager, Performance Strategy & AI Activation to shape enterprise performance strategy, govern performance processes, and accelerate AI adoption across the organization.

You will partner with HR, Learning, and business leaders to drive outcomes and ensure the workforce is prepared for the future. The role emphasizes AI fluency, data-driven decisions, and scalable enablement across regions, with responsibility for global process ownership and strategic direction of