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Senior Vice President, Head of Learning and Organizational Development
Oaktree
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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Company
Oaktree is a leader among global investment managers specializing in alternative investments, with $98 billion in assets under management as of June 30, 2016. The firm emphasizes an opportunistic, value-oriented and risk-controlled approach to investments in distressed debt, corporate debt (including high yield debt and senior loans), control investing, convertible securities, real estate and listed equities. Headquartered in Los Angeles, the firm has over 900 employees and offices in 18 cities worldwide.
Responsibilities:
• Provide thought leadership and best practice research to identify and design talent management and learning strategies to meet the leadership needs of the organization. Responsible for the creation, design, development and assessment of programs. This will be accomplished through building partnerships in HR and with department heads and by gaining a deep understanding of Oaktree’s business;
• Create tools, resources, and education to enable the successful execution of a talent process for Oaktree including a firm wide framework. Identify effective processes to accurately assess talent and readiness of corporate high potentials. Determine programs to support the development of these employees;
• Own the performance management cycle by creating tools for managers for goal setting, performance reviews and development plans to accelerate the growth of Oaktree’s employees;
• Create, implement, and integrate competency models that serve as the foundation of the talent management strategy. Partner across HR to integrate competencies into the full life-cycle of employees to include attraction, identification, assessment, development, retention, and engagement. Oversee the creation, maintenance, and integration of a valid and reliable competency-based 360 assessment tool;
• Assess, determine and implement learning programs for the organization to ensure the development of high performing and engaged associates. Design learning programs for both leaders and individual contributors;
• Manage the corporate onboarding program including new hire orientation as well as the development of tools to help managers successfully onboard new employees; and
• Provide training & facilitation of learning programs. Partner with business managers to facilitate team off-sites.
Qualifications:
• Ten plus years of experience in Learning & Development, Talent Management or HR Business Partner roles;
• Proficient in anticipating and understanding business needs and taking the initiative to drive solutions in effective value-added ways. Understand all parts of the organization and their interdependencies and use that knowledge to influence strategy and make decisions. Ensure the talent organization is aligned with the goals and objectives of the company;
• Experience facilitating meetings, planning sessions, and training programs;
• Proven track record successfully influencing and persuading others;
• Experience leading large cross-functional project teams from scoping phase to project implementation.
• Highly tech proficient in Excel, PowerPoint, HR reporting tools, Salesforce.com and other relevant technologies;
• Ability to toggle between strategic and tactical with a willingness to “roll up his/her sleeves;”
Personal Attributes:
• Executive-level verbal and written communication and presentation skills. Approachable and open to other’s ideas;
• Highly organized with strong initiative and a superior work ethic;
• Able to react and adjust quickly to changing conditions and to come up with practical ideas for dealing with them. Possesses a sense of urgency and independent action.
Education:
Bachelor’s degree required, advanced degree in Organizational Development strongly preferred. Certification in Myers-Briggs or similar also strongly preferred.