Manager, Talent Performance

The purpose of the role is to lead the planning and management of the delivery and execution for all major people and talent lifecycle activities, incorporating best practices to support the achievement of business objectives, enhance employee engagement, retention and career development. Overall responsibility for rolling out HR lifecycle initiatives, including:

• Employee performance management cycles – Coordinate the goal setting, performance discussions and end of year cycles, calibration activities and appeal processes, including system enhancements.
• Employee listening and engagement cycles – Lead the action planning process following ELE surveys, ensuring action is taken and tracked in all divisions, reporting, and crafting communications that link back to the survey outputs.
• Salary review cycle - project manage the timely yearly salary review process to reflect the outputs of the performance management cycle, coordinating with Total Rewards, Business Partners and Payroll teams.
• Yearly bonus award cycle – project manage the timely payment of yearly bonus awards, including executive and NRC / Board approvals, coordinating with Total Rewards, Business Partners and Payroll teams.
• Talent reviews SM1-VP / executives - Facilitate the Talent Review and Succession Planning process and equip Heads of HR to ensure an effective talent review and calibration process to build talent pipelines for critical roles across Etihad, and ensure business continuity, including assessing UAE National talent readiness.
• Quarterly people forums – build and deliver a framework to share people and workforce insights and engage with the business, leveraging PDT dashboards.
• Tracking and reporting of progress, effective escalation and remediation of risks and issues.
• Provide feedback to the COEs (Talent Strategy & Culture, Total Reward) on success of key performance and talent management initiatives, contribute to policy development and enhancement to deliver a robust framework that drives high-performance.
• Provide governance to ensure the implementation of policies, procedures and objective, confidential processes are applied across Etihad in regard to talent management and performance management activities.
• Contribute to projects aiming to automate performance and talent management processes and provide managers and employees with a more intuitive, streamlined digital experience.
• Partner with the OD and HRBP functions to assess talent impacts and create talent action plans for major organisation design changes.

Education & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business or relevant discipline.
• Minimum 7 years of experience as a business partner, Talent Development professional, or in an HR Programme management, or COE role.
• Subject matter expert in talent management and performance.
• Manager level experience within large multi-national organisations, with evidence of delivering progressive talent management and performance management initiatives.