The Senior Manager, Employee Experience is responsible for designing, leading, and continuously improving programs that strengthen culture, connection, engagement, and belonging across the organization. This role will serve as a key driver of the employee experience strategy to create meaningful experiences across the employee lifecycle.
Key Responsibilities
Culture and Integration
- Lead enterprise culture initiatives that reinforce the company's purpose, values, leadership expectations, and desired employee experience.
- Develop and execute culture programs that support day-to-day business priorities, employee connection, recognition, and organizational alignment.
- Partner with HR, communications, and business leaders to support culture workstreams related to enterprise initiatives including employee connection, leadership alignment, and cultural activities.
- Translate employee insights and business priorities into practical programs, tools, communications, and experiences that drive engagement and belonging.
Employee Resource Groups and Belonging
- Provide strategic support for Employee Resource Groups, including governance, annual planning and programming.
- Partner with ERG leaders and executive sponsors to ensure ERG priorities align with business objectives, culture goals, talent priorities, and employee needs.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen employee connection, inclusion, and community through ERG programming and broader employee experience initiatives.
Employee Voice and Engagement
- Lead or support the company's employee listening strategy, including engagement surveys, pulse surveys, focus groups, listening sessions, and other feedback mechanisms.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to interpret survey results, identify themes, develop global action plans, and track progress against engagement priorities.
- Promote a culture of listening, responsiveness, and accountability by helping leaders take meaningful action and close the feedback loop with employees.
Corporate Social Responsibility
- Support corporate social responsibility programs that strengthen employee pride, community impact, and connection to the company's values.
- Manage and improve employee giving, volunteerism, matching gift, and donation programs, including employee communications, participation campaigns, reporting, and process improvements.
- Identify opportunities to integrate CSR activities into broader employee experience, culture, engagement, and recognition strategies.
Employee Lifecycle Experience
- Manage employee experience programs (e.g. Onboarding, Recognition) from strategy and design through execution, measurement, and continuous improvement.
- Build strong partnerships across HR, Communications, Legal, Finance, CSR, business leadership, and regional teams to align priorities and deliver high-quality employee experiences.
- Develop communication materials, playbooks, toolkits, leader guides, program calendars, and reporting materials to support consistent execution.
- Use employee feedback and program data to identify pain points, simplify processes, and create more consistent, engaging, and scalable employee experiences.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Communications, Business, or related field required; advanced degree or relevant certification preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in employee experience, culture, engagement, HR programs, organizational development, internal communications, CSR, or related areas.
- Experience designing and managing enterprise-wide or global programs, ideally in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Demonstrated experience with employee engagement surveys, employee listening strategies, action planning, and insight reporting.
- Experience supporting ERGs, inclusion and belonging initiatives, CSR programs, employee giving, or Foundation-related activities preferred.
- Strong project management, stakeholder management, communication, facilitation, and change management skills.
- Ability to synthesize data, employee feedback, and business needs into actionable recommendations and practical solutions.
Key Competencies
- Strategic thinking with strong execution discipline
- Employee-centered mindset and ability to design experiences that meet diverse workforce needs
- Strong executive presence, communication, and storytelling skills
- Ability to influence across functions, regions, and leadership levels
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, change, and integration-related complexity
- Strong analytical skills and ability to use insights to drive action
- Collaborative, inclusive, and solutions-oriented leadership style