Verizon, Selection & Assessment-Senior Manager - Application via WayUp

WayUp; Lone Tree (IA); Hybrid; USD 101,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

WayUp is seeking a Senior Manager for Selection & Assessment at Verizon, focusing on talent assessment solutions and project leadership. The role involves managing large-scale projects, ensuring compliance, and collaborating with stakeholders to enhance assessment strategies. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in HR and project management, with strong analytical skills and a commitment to driving quality solutions.

Qualifications

• Six or more years of relevant experience required.
• Experience in selection and assessment or talent management.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Responsibilities

• Leading large-scale cross-functional projects for selection tools.
• Managing the technical strategy of pre-hire assessment programs.
• Ensuring compliance with legal and professional standards.

Skills

Project Management

Critical Thinking

Interpersonal Skills

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Ph.D. or Master's in related field

Tools

PowerPoint

Excel

Google Sheets

Workday

R

SPSS

SAS

Job description

Verizon, Selection & Assessment-Senior Manager - Application via WayUp

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This role is with Verizon. WayUp is partnering with Verizon to hire top talent.

### When you join Verizon

You want more out of a career. A place to share your ideas freely — even if they’re daring or different. Where the true you can learn, grow, and thrive. At Verizon, we power and empower how people live, work and play by connecting them to what brings them joy. We do what we love — driving innovation, creativity, and impact in the world. Our V Team is a community of people who anticipate, lead, and believe that listening is where learning begins. In crisis and in celebration, we come together — lifting our communities and building trust in how we show up, everywhere & always. Want in? Join the #VTeamLife.

### Responsibilities:

• This position supports Verizon’s global talent assessment and selection through consultation and project leadership in:

Development of talent assessment solutions, assessment technology implementation, interview design, job analysis, validation analyses, competency modeling, and legal compliance of selection practices.

Responsibilities:

• Leading large-scale cross-functional projects to develop selection tools for specific business groups using job analysis and/or competency modeling.
• Maximizing the business value of assessments through the management of criterion and content validation studies.
• Managing the technical strategy and execution of the pre-hire assessment program, including partnering with internal and external technology teams to configure assessments within Verizon’s human capital management suite, overseeing ATS integrations, and defining and maintaining testing policies and requirements.
• Supporting internal stakeholders (e.g., recruiters, HRBPs, hiring managers) by aligning assessment implementation strategy with business needs and serving as an expert resource for questions regarding employment testing considerations.
• Leading and managing assessment and selection vendors.
• Managing large, complex datasets; own and manage assessment data reporting; and perform analyses of applicant and employee data.
• Ensuring assessments are implemented in compliance with all relevant legal and professional standards (e.g., guiding technical documentation and analysis).
• Developing implementation guidelines, processes, communications, and training to support the use of selection and assessment tools.
• Contributing to HR transformation projects, as needed (examples: Talent GPS, Project Aurora, Work Forward). This position can sit out of any valid domestic Verizon corporate location.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or four or more years of work experience.
• Six or more years of relevant experience required, demonstrated through one or a combination of work and/or military experience, or specialized training.
• Experience in selection and assessment or talent management.
• Willingness to travel up to approximately 25% of the time.

Preferred qualifications include:

• Ph.D. or Master's in Industrial/Organizational Psychology, Organizational Development, Human Resource management or related field.
• Consulting experience in selection and assessment.
• Experience managing and implementing large-scale selection-related projects in a corporate HR environment.
• Strong understanding of employee selection and related processes, tools, techniques, and validation practices.
• Experience developing structured interview guides for employee selection.
• Experience with professional standards and practice in employment testing, measurement, and selection (e.g., Uniform Guidelines, OFCCP, SIOP, APA Standards).
• Excellent project management skills; ability to manage multiple large-scale projects.
• Excellent critical thinking and decision‐making skills when working under pressure.
• Strong interpersonal skills; ability to relate to, communicate with, build alliances with, and influence stakeholders and senior executives.
• Ability to communicate data-based information effectively and concisely to corporate stakeholders.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Excel, and Google Sheets.
• Persistence in driving ideas and delivering quality solutions and deliverables against tight deadlines.
• Experience interacting with and/or managing vendors.
• Strong verbal and written, and presentation skills.
• Experience with Workday.
• Experience creating and/or delivering executive presentations on relevant topics.
• Experience in R, SPSS, SAS, or other statistical packages for data/trend analysis.

If Verizon and this role sound like a fit for you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every “even better” qualification listed above.

### Work location

In this hybrid role, you'll have a defined work location that includes work from home and a minimum of eight assigned office days per month, set by your manager.

### Compensation

The salary range varies by location, with a typical full-time range of $101,500 - $194,000, and additional benefits as detailed in the original description.