Performance Management Lead

General Motors • Warren, MI

2d • Remote

About The Position

The Performance Management Lead is a critical enterprise role responsible for leading the design, execution, and continuous improvement of enterprise performance management practices. This role ensures performance management drives business results, reinforces a performance-driven and inclusive culture, and enables high-quality fair and standard talent decisions across a complex, global manufacturing and corporate workforce. Operating at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and leader enablement, this role partners closely with senior HR leaders, business executives, and People Analytics to ensure performance outcomes are credible, differentiated, and aligned with enterprise priorities such as quality, safety, innovation, and operational excellence.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in enterprise performance management design, calibration practices, and rating methodologies.
• Strong understanding of talent management integration, including succession, development, and rewards.
• Advanced analytical capability, including performance distributions, trend analysis, and fairness diagnostics.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and operate effectively in a large, matrixed, global organization.
• Strong systems thinking and process design capability with a focus on scalability and simplicity.
• Change leadership and executive communication skills.
• Experience working with HRIS and performance management technologies in a global environment.
• 8–12+ years of progressive experience in performance management, talent management, or HR strategy roles.
• Experience leading enterprise-wide performance management programs in large, complex organizations.
• Demonstrated success partnering with senior business and HR leaders.
• Bachelor’s degree required

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree in HR, Organizational Psychology, Business, or related field preferred.
• Experience in automotive, manufacturing, or industrial environments strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Lead the enterprise performance management strategy, including philosophy, goal-setting standards, rating architecture, and feedback practices.
• Design and govern annual and continuous performance cycles (goal setting, mid-year reviews, year-end evaluations, and calibrations).
• Establish enterprise governance, standards, and decision rights to ensure consistency across regions, plants, and corporate functions.
• Partner with business and HR leaders to reinforce a performance-driven culture aligned to enterprise values and operating principles.
• Ensure performance outcomes are fair, defensible, and analytically sound through ongoing distribution, trend, and bias analyses.
• Translate performance data into executive-level insights that inform talent reviews, succession planning, and rewards decisions.
• Integrate performance management with career development, succession planning, and total rewards programs.
• Lead leader enablement, change management, and communications to drive adoption and high-quality execution.
• Continuously benchmark external best practices and adapt the model to evolving workforce and business needs.

Benefits

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What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level