FM is a leading property insurer of the world's largest businesses, providing more than one-third of FORTUNE 1000-size companies with engineering-based risk management and property insurance solutions. FM helps clients maintain continuity in their business operations by drawing upon state-of-the-art loss-prevention engineering and research; risk management skills and support services; tailored risk transfer capabilities; and superior financial strength. To do so, we rely on a dynamic, culturally diverse group of employees, working in more than 100 countries, in a variety of challenging roles.
This high-profile enterprise role focuses on ensuring the successful design and implementation of leader development experiences that support in role, transition and readiness at the Manager of Manager and Manager of Individual Contributor levels.
This role has strategic oversight for the development of top talent as well as ensuring the successful onboarding and assimilation of managers new to the company and newly promoted.
Working as part of our FM Learning Academy, this role involves senior level leaders and managers across the organization to understand their development needs and develops a range of interventions to support their ongoing development.
This role contributes to the implementation of the company’s enterprise leadership development strategy including fostering and sustaining a leadership culture and increasing our leadership bench for key succession roles at mid and senior leadership levels of the organization.
Schedule and Location:
This is a full-time exempt position, office-based in Johnston, RI. 25% of domestic and international travel is required annually.
• Provides program management oversight including the design and implementation of a suite of leadership development experiences to support in role, transition and readiness at the manager of manager, manager of IC, high potentials and those aspiring to manager and leadership roles
• Plan and deliver leadership development activities which incorporate a variety of learning methodologies to ensure that our managers and high potentials are equipped with the skills and capabilities required to embed a high-performance culture across teams, functions, and operations
• Improve understanding of our organizational leadership competencies and support leaders and managers in ensuring that they demonstrate the desired behaviors consistently
• Assist in the development of coaching as a key leadership style by ensuring that coaching principles and skills are built into leadership and management development programs
• Develop and maintain an emphasis on internal learning with strategic use of external partners where appropriate
• Apply an evidenced based approach to various modalities of learning and development for leaders at the manager of manager and manager of IC levels including high potential development
• Implement assessment methodology to learning interventions to ensure individual, team and organization learning outcomes including where appropriate demonstrated return on investment
• Establish standards and practices to measure, track and report on learning effectiveness and overall business and learning impacts including utilizing industry data, trends and benchmarks where appropriate
Required Education:
• Graduate Degree: organizational psychology, adult learning, leadership development, management, organizational behavior, MBA, Med, MA, EMBA, PhD, EdD (a combination of education and experience will be considered in lieu of a Graduate degree)
Required Work Experience:
• 10+ years of experience required with the following:
o Experienced manager of people with 10+ years in leading the design, implementation and sustain of global management and leadership development programs and broader experiential learning development experiences
o Ability to define leadership and management strategies to advance leadership capabilities at all levels of the organization
o Experience in deploying internal coaching and mentoring programs across leadership levels
o Excellent track record in delivering and sustaining business and learner relevant learning solutions across leadership levels
Highly Preferred Work Experience:
• Hogan experience
• Strength Finder experience
• Emotional Intelligence assessment experience
• Myers Briggs experience
• Leadership 360
Required Skills:
• Advanced management, coaching, facilitation and effective communications skills
• Ability to foster credibility and establish a reputation as a trusted partner and advisor with key enterprise stakeholders
• Possesses intellectual curiosity and a continuous improvement mindset
• Possesses excellent organization, presentation and interpersonal skills
• Successful track record in designing, implementing and sustaining transformative leadership development and high potential experiences aligned to organizational and leader development needs
• Ability to integrate industry best practices, trends and data analysis into the design and effectiveness of learning solutions
• Ability to manage multiple enterprise-wide initiatives through effective project and program management
• Ability to apply systems and design thinking framework to learning solutions, organizational opportunities and learner outcomes
• Ability to design and implement change management plans to support leadership and management development initiatives including applying effective communication planning and tactics
• Possesses subject matter expertise in leadership and management development tools, frameworks, methodologies including assessments and experience in providing 360-degree feedback, coaching and other assessments i.e. Myers Briggs, CPI 260, DISC, Social Styles, Hogan etc.
• Knowledge of business, talent and organizational data to drive development solutions and assessment needs
• Ability to effectively lead, possessed experience in leading teams
• Knowledge of succession and talent development practices
• Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint, excel and possess experience in establishing program metrics, analyzing data and producing reports and dashboards
• Ability to work independently whilst also supporting and drawing on resources across the wider department
The hiring range for this position is $134,080-$192,700 annually. The final salary offer will vary based on individual education, skills, and experience. The position is eligible to participate in FM’s comprehensive Total Rewards program that includes an incentive plan, generous health and well-being programs, a 401(k) and pension plan, career development opportunities, tuition reimbursement, flexible work, time off allowances and much more.
FM is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to attracting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce.