Vice President, Talent Management

Are you interested in being part of an innovative team that supports Westinghouse’s mission to provide clean energy solutions? At Westinghouse, we recognize that our employees are our most valuable asset and we seek to identify, attract and recruit the most qualified talent while recognizing and encouraging the value of diversity in the global workplace.

Who we are: 

Westinghouse Electric Corporation (Westinghouse) (https://westinghousenuclear.com) has a 130-year history of innovation that began when their founder, George Westinghouse, commercialized the alternating current and forever changed the way electricity was distributed. The company’s legacy continues in the nuclear era, which originated when they built the world’s first commercial pressurized water reactor in Shippingport, Pennsylvania. More than 60 years later, nearly half of the nuclear reactors in operation around the globe use Westinghouse technology. 

While proud of its past, Westinghouse’s real value lies in providing a guide for the future. As the world strives to address the challenges of a changing climate, the company is constantly rethinking the way it delivers nuclear energy. Westinghouse provides nuclear technology and infrastructure development services to help the commercial nuclear electric power industry avail utility power and services. The company offers a wide range of services, including engineering, maintenance, facilities management, nuclear fuel and plant automation and operations services, helping customers keep their plants safe, reliable and efficient. From the efficient and economical AP1000® nuclear plant to the new eVinci™ microreactor for remote energy applications, Westinghouse is leading the way with the development of new nuclear technologies that will enable them to share the benefits of this reliable, clean, safe and economical source of energy for generations to come. 

In 2023, Westinghouse was acquired by a consortium comprised of Brookfield and Cameco. This sale further strengthened the role that Westinghouse plays in enabling the world’s clean and secure energy goals and ensured sufficient capital to support Westinghouse’s future development and growth.  

Brookfield’s global leadership across carbon-free energy technologies further positions Westinghouse and nuclear power in the clean energy transition worldwide. While Cameco brings a wealth of experience across the front-end fuel cycle, complementing Westinghouse’s robust capabilities in fabrication and services, and further enhancing security of nuclear fuel supply globally. Today, Westinghouse employs approximately 10,000 people across 21 countries.  

About the position: 

The Vice President, Talent Management and Culture is responsible for developing and leading the strategic direction and execution of talent management, learning, organizational effectiveness, and cultural transformation aimed at accelerating business results to enable strategic growth at Westinghouse. In this role, you will partner with the Senior Leadership team and various key stakeholders to ensure proper alignment of an accountable, high-performing, and values-driven culture to actively anticipate, plan for, and address the talent and culture needs of the organization.  You will collaborate with senior leaders and HR leaders to identify and build the strategic capabilities needed to drive performance.  Improving the quality of leadership, building robust succession plans and building a strong, capable, engaged and diverse workforce is a top priority, and you will be at the core of this priority.  

As a leader, you will design, influence, and operationalize a talent agenda that is linked to our business strategies and priorities.  As a key member of the HR leadership team and a senior leader, this role will be critical to the long-term success of Westinghouse by driving improvements in the quality of talent related programs, policies, processes and systems.  

This position is hybrid from Western PA; for succession planning purposes, the individual will be expected to be in Western PA for advancement.  

Your Day to Day: 

Talent Management 

• Leads, develops and executes the overall talent management strategy in support of Westinghouse’s growth strategy and business priorities. 

• Provides critical talent management thought leadership through the process of reimagining the talent lifecycle process, including onboarding, talent pipelining, the identification of critical roles and key talent, performance management, career progression, learning and development (L&D), employee engagement, retention and succession planning practices, approaches and more. 

• Develops practical and impactful approaches to ensure the leadership bench needed in support of company strategy and culture; identifies, manages, and develops future generations of diverse leaders in partnership with business partners and the L&D team. 

• Supports leaders in proactively managing the talent pipelines to ensure talent is available to meet future growth needs. 

• Develops and operationalizes a talent business partner strategy that drives engagement and retention while delivering a clear and scalable approach to supporting leaders across the business. 

• Monitors relevant metrics and KPIs to proactively diagnose and address key talent trends across the organization. Coordinates and collaborates with relevant Centers of Excellence to ensure processes, policies, and services are implemented and meet the needs of the business. 

• Forms effective relationships with leaders and their teams, advising and providing talent guidance. 

• Provides leadership consulting and is adept at coaching and influencing at all levels of the organization. 

Organizational Effectiveness 

• Leads and develops the organizational effectiveness function to provide services, solutions, and support that drives key business outcomes and leader accountability throughout the organization. 

• Provides consultation of organizational planning and design, change management, and performance challenges; works in partnership with HR leaders and client groups to design and orchestrate organizational development initiatives that enable company strategy and goals. 

• Works closely with executive leaders to plan and implement OD/OE projects and initiatives that align the talent, culture, and work processes with the organization’s strategic priorities. 

• Responsible for the full cycle of organizational consulting for various regions/accounts as needed; carries out organizational assessments, and makes recommendations for change(s), while helping to create new structures and operating models to redesign/reconfigure roles and responsibilities. 

• With appropriate business leaders, develop a strategy and framework that embeds a disciplined strategic workforce planning into our operating cadence.  

Cultural Transformation 

• Sets the overall roadmap for Westinghouse culture, identification of who we are, how the company defines itself, learns from the past, and inspires and motivates teams going forward; crafts and translates this vision into a roadmap of practical actions to drive cultural agenda forward. 

• Develop DEI strategy that aligns with all people processes to embed into strategic priorities. 

• Integrates the overall culture vision with DEI roadmap and action plans, communication plans, and company messaging. 

• Creates the vision and associated assets on which Westinghouse bases both the employee value proposition (EVP) and external employer brand. 

• Develops, directs, and monitors plans aimed at maintaining a healthy workplace culture, including strategies, programs, and initiatives related to employee communications and engagement. Proactively drives effective employee communications in partnership with the leadership team. 

• Helps shape the Westinghouse approach to employee surveys, enterprise-wise, ensuring the resulting insights derived enable the appropriate recommendations to shape overall business strategy and decision-making. 

• Leads the Employee Engagement survey process, consolidation, and monitoring of messaging, reporting, and action planning. 

• Partners to help build the learning and development (L&D) function for Westinghouse to deliver the desired capabilities and behaviors to drive the cultural agenda. 

• Proactively and effectively addresses components of company culture that impedes organizational and individual effectiveness in a manner consistent with the organization’s values. 

• Partners and fosters building a high-performance and accountable culture of trust, recognition, transparency, respect, and results among team members at all levels of the organization, consistent with our short and long-term business objectives. 

• Performs other duties as assigned. 

Who You Are: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Management or a related field. A master’s degree in business/organizational development is preferred.  

• 15+ years of experience in Human Resources at mid-to large-sized companies, with at least 7 years of experience in talent management, organizational development, organizational design and/or consulting Proven experience working end-to-end talent solutions. 

• Demonstrated and disciplined approach to change management. 

• Experience with building and deploying an employee value proposition (EVP) and advancing corporate culture transformation. 

• Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced work environment. 

• Demonstrated track record of delivering results in a cross-functional team setting. 

• Demonstrated proficiency including experience using MS Office applications, various talent solutions and HRIS platforms. 

• Ability to influence stakeholders in written and oral communication. Ability to develop presentations and report documents with effective messaging, and executive-level presentation skills. 

• Flexible and adaptable – ability to adapt to various situations and stakeholders. 

• Autonomous and self-driven – ability to work with all levels of the organization 

• Ability to travel up to 25%. 

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Why Westinghouse?

Westinghouse Electric Company is the global nuclear energy industry’s first choice for safe, clean, and efficient energy solutions. We enable our delivery of this vision by living our value system:

• Safety and Quality
• Integrity and Trust
• Customer Focus and Innovation
• Speed and Passion to Win
• Teamwork and Accountability

Westinghouse offers competitive benefits to all our employees around the globe to keep them healthy and enhance their well-being.  In the U.S. the following are representative of what we offer:

• Competitive Salary
• Comprehensive Health, Wellness and Income Protection Benefits
• 401(k) Savings Plan with Company Match
• Paid Vacations and Holidays
• Opportunities for Flexible Work Arrangements
• Educational Reimbursement Program
• Employee Referral Program

While our Global Headquarters are located in Cranberry Township, PA, we have over 9,000 employees working at locations in 19 different countries. You can learn more by visiting http://www.westinghousenuclear.com.

Westinghouse is an Equal Opportunity Employer including Veterans and Individuals with Disabilities.

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