Director Of Employee Engagement

Assembly is part of Stagwell, the challenger network built to transform marketing, and we pride ourselves on being the modern alternative to the status quo. Assembly’s mission is to find the change that fuels growth through a unique Assembly of data, talent and tech that drives business growth. Assembly is the global omnichannel media agency that not only guarantees performance but delivers media + business, technology, and data consulting solutions to the biggest brands on the planet. Our work is powered by our proprietary, in-house technology solution, STAGE, and led by our global talent base of over 1,600 people.

ICYMI: Assembly was named Ad Age’s first-ever Purpose-Led Agency of the Year atop the 2022 Ad Age A-List!

This self-directed role is responsible for improving employee engagement and curating employe culture. Serving as an expert internal consultant, this role requires influence and your unique outside-the-box thinking as you own designing, delivering, and measuring a roadmap of programs to drive internal employee engagement, connection, and impact focusing on building culture and community.

Reporting to the VP of Organizational Effectiveness, within the People Team, working closely with the DEI and Learning leaders, this highly analytical and collaborative role requires consulting with members of Assembly Global team while partnering with NA’s leadership, marketing, and corporate office services teams to bring relevant engagement programs to life impacting the total employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

• Work consultatively with and lead local office and department leadership (various states) in establishing office champions to collaboratively design and deliver common intra-office engagement programs and experiences for scale across NA offices consistent with the People Organizational Effectiveness programming and cadence including but not limited to Meetups, team building, community outreach, and impact.
• Create standard programming processes, tools, and activations: outlines, agendas, templates, and communications inclusive of content sourced from internal team and leadership and external sources for meetings, newsletters, and connections.
• Partner with the People team leadership to develop and implement priority actions aimed at improving performance, BI+ED, engagement, and retention.
• Identify, create, and manage industry partners and vendors to deliver programs concurrent with business initiatives.
• Design, organize, and deliver standard and relevant employee engagement programs and events virtually and in-person (annual parties/rallies, recognition, speaker series, wellness offerings, and activities) that impact retention, build culture, community, and purpose.
• Lead the NA annual/standard Engagement Survey, designing, delivering, measuring, and reporting, including analyzing impact, activating action items, and designing follow-up priorities, and communication plans in partnership with various stakeholders.
• Co-develop and execute the NA engagement strategy, performance measures, and annual programming to drive employee engagement and connection across offices.
• Develop and manage employee community connections and campaigns: All hands meetings/Meetups, newsletters, sourcing relevant content in collaboration with Marketing.
• Partner on Global Impact initiatives for NA execution
• Coordinate internal People focused employee communications partnering with Marketing.
• Develop and manage the Onboarding program partnering with People team Business Partners, IT, and Marketing including check-ins, evaluation, and reporting metrics.
• Budget management, tracking, and assessing.
• Develop evaluation and reporting processes to analyze and communicate the impact of engagement programs.
• Create and implement the roadmap of annual/standard engagement programming inclusive of a calendar and toolkit of initiatives designed to enhance connectivity.

Experience:

• Demonstrated understanding of and experience leading in the elements and dynamics of organizational change.
• Preferred experience in a high growth, evolving, fast-paced matrixed Advertising role.
• Expert analytical skills, advance use of Excel and other similar analytical tools.
• Masters Degree preferred in Organizational Development, Communicaitons, Human Resources (or similar) or Bachelors Degree required with 10+ more years of comparable experience in a Communications or Engagement role.
• Strong command of current communication and survey tools: ZOOM, CANVA, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey or other similar applications.
• Established ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders with different perspectives.

Skills:

• Knowledge of latest technology and resources to deliver effective programming.
• Excellent program and project management experience, planning and execution skills; problem solving orientation and follow-through.
• Exceptional communicator (written and verbal) to inform, persuade, and engage target audiences.
• Flexibility and agility – able to lead multiple projects, pivot and reprioritize based on business need.
• Demonstrated competence in a distributed work culture.
• Large platform presentation design, development, delivery, and facilitation skills.
• High-level ability to operate strategically using solid consultative, critical thinking, analytical, and communication skills with strong ability to establish immediate credibility with senior leadership.
• Exceptional collaborative nature and relationship skills
• Strong capability to leverage data for quality insights and decision making. Use of current practices to survey, analyze, manage, and deliver data influencing programming.
• Proven business sense, hands on approach, and agility to drive measurable results and lead in a fast-paced, dynamic, complex, and at times ambiguous environment.
• Experience working with people analytics to identify and support the development of the Key Performance Indicators needed to drive engagement, experience, and culture, and the relation to other key people metrics such as talent attraction, retention, development, and turnover.
• Expertise to lead as an internal consultant through influence and relationship without direct authority.

Core Competencies:

• Program and Project Management
• Collaboration
• Data-analysis
• Problem Solving
• Strategic Thinking
• Communication: verbal, written, presentation
• Decision Making

Why Assembly:

• We’re truly a people-first organization. That’s why we offer a Flexible Time Off policy that puts you in control of your work-life balance, as well as market-leading primary and secondary caregiver and parental leave policies.
• We have amazing Employee Resource Groups who form close knit communities and are committed to guiding the agency to become more inclusive, diverse, and representative of the world around us.
• We care deeply about social and environmental Impact – we have dedicated Impact Champions who collaborate with our in-house Impact team to help leave the world better than we found it.
• We’re part of Stagwell, the challenger network built to transform marketing. We’re nimble, digital-first, and quickly growing to take on the biggest legacy hold cos.

In order to comply with equal pay and salary transparency laws in various locations, we believe the target range of base compensation in all locations within the United States for this role is $130,000 - $150,000 annually. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, and location.

In addition to medical, dental and vision coverage, we offer a generous PTO plan, 401k program, comprehensive family planning benefits (including paid parental leave), and pre-tax commuter benefits. Benefits/perks may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Assembly and the location where you work.

At Assembly, we believe every career is as unique as the individual and empower employees to reach their full potential in a winning culture motivated by a powerful purpose.

Assembly is an advocate for equal opportunity in the workplace. We are committed to ensuring equal opportunities regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, gender identity, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. EEO Employer M/F/Vet/Disabled.