Talent Management Advisor

What you'll be doing 

As a member of the Talent Management team, you’ll work in a fast-paced and collaborative culture where you’ll make a meaningful difference in enhancing organizational performance, and the employee experience and advance CIBC’s overall corporate strategy.    

As a Talent Management Advisor, you’ll foster key relationships with strategic business units, understand their overall function and roles, provide strategic guidance, and recommend the right solutions that will enable their success. You’ll be located in Chicago, IL to work at our US headquarters to help deliver a great client experience. 

At CIBC we enable the work environment most optimal for you to thrive in your role. To successfully perform the work, you’ll be on-site two to three days a week. 

Talent Management involves talent selection and assessment, HR strategic planning, talent management consulting, coaching & leadership development, training, team development, and succession planning in alignment with organizational goals. The role of a Talent Management Advisor is to help shape the careers of individuals. 

• Have a passion for working with people to understand personal and professional goals and work towards building a partnership throughout the talent journey. 

• Ability to pace with leaders and participants during pre and post-assessment conversations, ensuring a positive and supportive experience. 

• Gather data methodically to understand, clarify, and discover talent needs for businesses and people. Connect links between people and business strategy. 

• Use qualitative and quantitative research methods to identify valuable insights for evolving individual, team, and organizational capabilities 

• Drive a comprehensive talent analytics plan, including identifying and collecting relevant data, organizing structured and unstructured data, and analyzing and interpreting data to support Talent Management initiatives and processes 

• Facilitate Talent Reviews through Organizational Design theories to evaluate candidates and existing employees. 

• Analyze assessment results to identify strengths, development areas, and growth potential. Use assessment results to design and develop solutions to close skill gaps. Solutions should consider candidate fit, potential, and alignment with organizational values. Collaborate with leadership to create development paths for future leaders. 

• Provide consulting services across entity and business lines. Serve as lead on initiatives with multiple senior leaders. 

• Partner in talent planning, people development initiatives, and offering programs, tools, and resources focused on equipping performance in current and future roles. 

• Embrace and contribute to best practices in Talent Management and operational excellence. 

• Evaluate processes, identify and recommend opportunities for efficiencies, execute recommendations. 

• Facilitate, integrate, and coordinate Talent Management initiatives, including project planning, timing, and communications. 

• Work to align L&D initiatives with the Talent Management strategy. 

How you'll succeed 

• Manage and work cross-functionally to consistently design, pilot, implement, deliver, and continuously improve talent programs, including employee engagement & retention and other programs to support employees, managers and business needs. 

• Build and maintain succession plans, critical roles and high potentials in partnership with business leaders to ensure development of robust pipelines of internal talent. 

• Organize and track talent movement to identify potential gaps and deploy solutions. 

• Strategize with Talent Acquisition to ensure awareness of, and utilization of all creative, resourceful strategies and tools to attract a diverse slate of candidates. 

• Design and implement organizational development initiatives that focus on leadership development, employee onboarding/offboarding, performance management, succession planning, career pathing, and employee engagement. 

• Collaborate with leaders and HR business partners (HRBPs) to assess organization design, workflow, tools, roles, and behaviors. 

Who you are 

• You're motivated by collective success. You know that teamwork can transform a good idea into a great one. You know that an inclusive team that enjoys working together can bring a vision to life. 

• You have a Master’s degree in Organizational Development, Industrial/Organizational Psychology, or related field. 

• You can demonstrate experience in Organizational Development or a related field. It’s an asset if you have familiarity with talent management concepts and designing enablement plans. 

• You are proficient in organizational research methodology, statistics, predictive analytics, and statistical software (e.g., Python, R, SPSS). You perform advanced statistical analyses to improve current models and identify trends relevant for current and future Talent Management objectives. 

• You give meaning to data. You enjoy investigating complex problems and making sense of information. You communicate detailed information in a meaningful way. 

• You have a fundamental understanding of data and statistical analysis. You also have familiarity working with statistical programs 

• You're passionate about people. You find meaning in relationships and surround yourself with a diverse network of partners. You connect with others through respect and authenticity.