Global Leader, People Operations - Digital

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 25,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Global Leader, People Operations - Digital

The Digital business unit of Rockwell Automation supports the world’s largest companies on their digital transformation journey through consulting, technology implementation, automation, data science, and managed services.

As a provider of professional services, our people are the key to success. We are passionate about our work and committed to helping clients become more innovative, competitive, and productive. We want balanced individuals who are willing to go the extra mile to deliver the results our Fortune 1000 clients expect. At the same time, we are looking for characters with character who complement their expertise and intelligence with personality.

As the Global Leader, People Operations, you will be responsible for leading the Digital People Operations team to drive Digital’s people strategies and mission of attracting, retaining, and developing best-in-class talent. You will align with the Global Digital Business Director, the HR Business Partner and organization leadership to develop and execute people strategies across three primary people functions – People Operations, Engagement & Development and Training:

• People Operations: Ownership of global project staffing, talent acquisition activity and intern programs. This function is accountable to client service utilization and drives resource mix and strategy.
• Training: Ownership of three-tiered training strategy – Consulting, Technical/Industry and self-paced/on-demand training programs. This function is accountable to training metrics and annual engagement survey results.
• Engagement & Development: Ownership of employee experience and rewards, cultural engagement, and performance/career development. This function drives the communication and actions associated with the annual engagement survey results, retention analysis results and DEI metrics.

Leadership Responsibilities

• Partner with Rockwell Automation Human Resources teams including HR Business Partner, HR Generalist, Talent Acquisition and Total Rewards.
• Proactively provide insight, guidance, and leadership to team on organizational design, change management and/or people challenges related to growth, acquisitions, or the development of new businesses.
• Navigate a highly matrixed organization understanding how the different pieces fit together across Digital and Rockwell Automation. Build and maintain strong relationships across key stakeholders.
• Oversee global teams that own the employee lifecycle from role identification, early career programing, onboarding, performance, staffing, career development, training, workforce planning and DEI.
• Ensure core technology and processes are effective and scalable as needed across the business, maintaining value, accuracy, and data-driven insights.
• Create and maintain a culture that empowers the digital business, values innovation, emphasizes people and performance management, employee engagement and invests in diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Work closely with the Digital leadership team and Rockwell Automation HR Business Partner as a trusted advisor to help maintain a high performing culture by driving strategic and proactive talent processes and programs that align with the business and people strategy.
• Drive business utilization and profitability by managing workforce through staffing and performance management processes.
• Lead across global people team, ensuring alignment with region leadership and adjusting practices for unique region/country elements.
• Demonstrate problem solving to scale the global business while effectively collaborating with key stakeholders
• Drive training and development strategy, aligning with leadership and training team to launch measurable and impactful programs with an objective of increasing employee engagement and maintaining a highly skilled consulting workforce.

Characteristics that would make a good candidate:

• Strong communicator with gravitas at the executive level and throughout the organization. Able to understand, influence, and generate consensus at the highest levels and across the business to move through periods of change.
• Easily forms relationships and partners across all levels of the organization working with humility, building trust, and possessing a strong EQ.
• Inspirational, authentic leader who engages with employees across the organization to inspire an atmosphere and culture in which people want to innovate, develop and grow their career.
• Ability to remain thoughtful and focused under pressure, can prioritize most impactful opportunities, pivot as needed, and work to results.
• Highly motivated, dynamic leader with outstanding performance standards, instilling confidence in others and their work.
• Builder mentality: always looking to iterate and improve existing programs and implement new approaches. Entrepreneurial, hands-on leader, who can roll up their sleeves.
• Highly strategic with excellent business and people judgement. Understands the business and value drivers, makes key decisions to align the organization and talent to deliver to objectives.

Basic Qualifications:

• Typically requires 8 years of experience
• Bachelor Degree
• Legal authorization to work in the US is required. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience developing talent strategies and executing plans aligned with the culture and overall employee experience to drive business outcomes.
• Experience in professional service organization; preferably in a management consultancy.
• Experience demonstrating business fluency and knowledge.
• Global experience, particularly with a remote team.

We offer a Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can flex with your personal life.

This position is part of a job family. Experience will be the determining factor for position level and compensation.

The Base Salary Compensation range for this role is $146,240-$219,360 with an annual target bonus of 10% of base salary. Our company benefits for the US can be found here. Actual pay will be based on factors such as skills, knowledge, education, and experience.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer including disability and veterans.

If you are an individual with a disability and you need assistance or a reasonable accommodation during the application process, please contact our services team at +1 (844) 404-7247.