Vice President Organizational Talent Advisor

At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life’s uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers’ evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection. 

Job Description

**As part of Allstate’s transformative growth strategy, we are seeking to fill three Vice President Organizational Talent Advisor roles**

The Vice President Organizational Talent Advisor is a strategic consultant and Talent Advisor to executive leadership at Allstate. The Talent Advisor partners with business line leadership, HR COEs, and HR Delivery teams to deliver forward-thinking talent management and organizational effectiveness strategies.

The Organization & Talent Advisor function plays a critical role enabling and accelerating business objectives through two primary domains of expertise: 1) organizational development and 2) talent management.

1. Organizational Development (OD) – building organizational capability through strategic job, organization structure, and process design and deployment.
2. Talent Management (TM) - supporting business performance through practices, programs, and technologies used to attract and retain high-quality employees, develop their skills, and continuously motivate them to improve their performance and well-being.

The Talent Advisor must be an innovative and flexible business partner with experience providing strategic HR support to large, complex operational units and customer engagement centers undergoing digital transformation. Of principal importance is ensuring consistent delivery of standardized services and the agile development of new services in support of business priorities unique to this dynamic environment, while also remaining aligned with broader enterprise HR strategies

As a leader in the Organization & Talent Advisory function, the Talent Advisor plays a vital role in support of Allstate’s Transformative Growth plan to pivot the company to customer-centric protection platform. The successful candidate typically has a minimum of 10 to 15 years of human capital consulting and business partnership experience in complex organizations with a reputation for excellence, as well as experience leading HR for businesses undergoing digital transformation.

They should be skilled in integrating themselves into an existing organization in a diplomatic and productive fashion while being an effective agent for change. And, possess a reputation as a strategically oriented leader who delivers results, has proven leadership skills, and strong business acumen.

As an Officer, you won’t just deliver results – you drive our culture and shared purpose. At Allstate, we value in person connected experiences not just with your team but also other Allstaters. This may require travel within your local area or to one of our offices on a regular basis.

The Vice President Organizational Talent Advisor will:

• Proactively drive talent planning and activation to accelerate business objectives

• Ensure continuous improvement of organizational effectiveness to drive operational efficiency and growth

• Contribute to building a premier internal organizational/talent effectiveness consulting and activation practice

• Align Allstate’s HR strategy with key business drivers (i.e.: clients, revenue growth areas, emerging markets and products, operational risk restructure, and people) and enterprise priorities

• Work across HR, with their peers and the HR COEs to design and deliver innovative and adaptive talent strategies across all aspects of the talent management life-cycle

• Drive accelerated cultural and operational change within HR to become a more collaborative, analytical, and customer centric HR function

• Deliver Allstate’s Talent Management system to the business; attracting, developing, motivating, and retaining key talent to drive business growth and transformation imperatives

• Leads and develops a high-performing team of Organization and Talent Advisors who deliver those strategies at all levels of the organization

To effectively accomplish this work, the Vice President Organizational Talent Advisor will possess the following skills and behaviors:

• Demonstrates deep knowledge of business priorities to drive business strategies ​

• Ability to support emerging, high growth, technology enabled organizations

• Has led through transformation changes; developing a compelling vision and executing against a plan

• Embeds the use of data and insights in people-related decision making​. Analytical, uses data and insights to inform decisions and promotes and environment that does the same. Fluent in digital strategies and technology advancements.

• Influences up, down and across ​varying levels of front-line to executive leadership

• Is a natural collaborator who is authentic, transparent, and honest, aligned with company values and leadership principles

• Strong change agility - thrives in a complex, fast paced, rapidly evolving environment. Can shift between thinking strategically and consulting with HR centralized resources on operational issues Fosters a culture of excellence, accountability, empowerment, and inclusive diversity

• Influential communicator – clear, honest, effective – across all levels, internally and externally

• Expertise in HR best practices with the ability to build sustainable long-term strategies

• Bachelor's Degree and advanced degree with a human resources emphasis is preferred (e.g. MBA, OD, I/O)

Skills

Compensation

Compensation offered for this role is $256,200.00 - 308,850.00 annually and is based on experience and qualifications.

The candidate(s) offered this position will be required to submit to a background investigation.

Joining our team isn’t just a job — it’s an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. One where you can shape the future of protection while supporting causes that mean the most to you. Joining our team means being part of something bigger – a winning team making a meaningful impact.

Allstate generally does not sponsor individuals for employment-based visas for this position.

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