Senior Manager, Talent Management

Medica • Minnetonka, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Medica is a nonprofit health plan with more than a million members that serves communities in Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Missouri, and beyond. We deliver personalized health care experiences and partner closely with providers to ensure members are genuinely cared for. We're a team that owns our work with accountability, makes data-driven decisions, embraces continuous learning, and celebrates collaboration — because success is a team sport. It's our mission to be there in the moments that matter most for our members and employees. Join us in creating a community of connected care, where coordinated, quality service is the norm, and every member feels valued. The Senior Manager, Talent Management is responsible for the execution, adoption, and continuous improvement of Medica’s enterprise talent management systems. This role operationalizes enterprise frameworks developed by the VP of Talent & Culture and partners with HRBPs, Talent Development, and Centers of Excellence to ensure consistent deployment and alignment across the organization. In addition to talent and succession planning, performance framework deployment, and job architecture alignment, this role also drives the engagement strategy execution, including analyzing enterprise insights, identifying priority actions, enabling leaders to apply those insights, and managing the technology and data ecosystem that supports engagement solutions. The Senior Manager ensures enterprise consistency, alignment, and practical adoption of these systems to build a cohesive and enterprise-minded talent environment.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field
• 7+ of progressive HR experience with a focus in talent management, organizational development, or engagement or workforce insights
• 2+ years of leadership experience
• Demonstrated experience supporting or implement enterprise-wide talent programs (succession planning, performance, engagement, mobility)
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, ability to convert strategy into actionable, scalable programs
• Excellent collaboration and relationship management skills across HR functions and business partners
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence and present to executives
• Enterprise thinking
• Ability to lead through ambiguity and transformation

Nice To Haves

• Master's degree or relevant certification (coaching, change management, talent assessment)
• Experience in a medium to large matrixed organization
• Familiarity with modern talent technologies, engagement platforms, and job architecture frameworks

Responsibilities

• Talent & Succession Planning Execution Leads enterprise execution of talent review and succession planning processes
• Ensures consistent tools, guidance, and calibration across the organization
• Synthesizes enterprise talent insights into actionable recommendations for the VP Talent & Culture and HR Leadership
• Partners with HRBPs to facilitate effective adoption and application of talent processes
• Job Architecture & Internal Mobility Alignment Partners with Compensation to ensure job architecture aligns with internal mobility strategy
• Advises HRBPs on role design consistency and application of job frameworks
• Works cross-functionally to support scalable and equitable mobility practices across the enterprise
• Engagement Strategy, Enterprise Insights & Leader Enablement Supports execution of the enterprise engagement strategy in partnership with the external engagement survey vendor, ensuring effective survey administration, data integrity, and alignment with talent, culture, and organizational priorities
• Partners with engagement survey vendor to analyze and interpret engagement insights at the enterprise level, identifying themes, risks, and targeted priorities
• Develops leader-friendly tools and guidance that help translate engagement insights into actionable behaviors and team-level improvements
• Partners with HRBPs to ensure consistent adoption and accountability across leaders
• Works closely with the VP Talent & Culture to operationalize enterprise engagement priorities
• Performance Framework Deployment Ensures enterprise-wide adoption of performance management philosophy, tools, and practices
• Partners with Centers of Excellence to align performance, development, mobility, and culture
• Drives consistency in how performance processes are understood and executed
• HR Partnership & Enterprise Enablement Provides guidance and enablement tools for HRBPs and people leaders
• Supports execution of enterprise engagement and culture insights (excluding strategy ownership)
• Coordinates across HR to ensure alignment and eliminate friction points
• Data, Reporting & Continuous Improvement Manages or supports the HR technology platform used for engagement measurement, action planning, and insights delivery
• Uses talent, performance, and mobility data to identify gaps in adoption, identify barriers, and recommending enhancements to systems and processes
• Establishes continuous improvement loops across talent and engagement processes using enterprise data and feedback
• Ensures tools and processes remain simple, consistent, and scalable

Benefits

• Medica offers a generous total rewards package that includes competitive medical, dental, vision, PTO, Holidays, paid volunteer time off, 401K contributions, caregiver services and many other benefits to support our employees.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees