Sr Manager, Employee Experience

Winnebago Industries•Forest City, IA

About The Position

The Sr. Manager of Employee Experience is responsible for designing and stewarding the Winnebago employee experience, from first candidate contact through career growth, leadership development, and community connection. The role brings Talent Acquisition, Internal Communications, Inclusion & Belonging, Community Engagement, and Employee Experience together in a unified strategy intended to strengthen culture, improve engagement and retention, and support business performance. The position translates the Winnebago Welcome System and The Winnebago Way into consistent daily employee experiences. It treats employee experience as a business system and applies continuous improvement practices to interactions across the employee lifecycle. The Sr. Manager partners with business leaders to reinforce safety, quality, accountability, leadership, belonging, and purpose. The role leads employee experience strategy and owns the Winnebago Welcome System; oversees internal communications; leads inclusion, belonging, culture, community engagement, employer brand, and talent acquisition efforts; and champions The Winnebago Way. It establishes standards, systems, resources, and measurable outcomes to improve the employee and candidate experience across the organization.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree required.
10+ years of progressive leadership experience in employee experience, communications, talent acquisition, culture, organizational effectiveness, or related disciplines.
Demonstrated success leading enterprise-wide culture and employee experience initiatives.
Strong executive communication and storytelling capabilities.
Experience building scalable systems and processes.
Proven ability to work cross-functionally and influence senior leaders.
Passion for creating environments where employees can thrive.

Nice To Haves

Master's degree preferred.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute an employee experience strategy aligned with business objectives and The Winnebago Way.
Define and continuously improve key employee moments, including recruiting, pre-hire, onboarding, promotions, team transitions, leadership assimilation, recognition, career development, retirement, and alumni engagement.
Establish experience standards across functions, locations, and leadership teams, and use feedback, engagement data, audits, retention trends, and pulse surveys to identify improvements.
Serve as executive owner of the Winnebago Welcome System, maintaining and evolving the pre-hire through Day 1+ experience and ensuring onboarding is leader-owned and experience-driven.
Set standards for candidate experience, manager involvement, and assimilation; measure onboarding effectiveness through retention, speed to productivity, engagement, and new-hire feedback.
Maintain leader playbooks, onboarding experiences, communication content, and experience standards, and ensure employees understand the company, its products and purpose, leadership expectations, and their contribution to customer success.
Lead the organization's employee communication strategy, including annual plans, consistent messaging, leadership communications, town halls, business updates, change communications, and major announcements.
Partner with senior leaders to improve communication effectiveness and leadership visibility, and build communication capabilities that strengthen trust, clarity, and engagement.
Lead efforts to create a culture where employees feel valued, respected, and connected; advance inclusion initiatives and systems for equitable employee experiences.
Support employee resource groups, community partnerships, and culture-building initiatives, and embed inclusion in recruiting, onboarding, leadership development, and employee communications.
Establish measurable outcomes for inclusion, engagement, and organizational culture.
Design community engagement strategies, build partnerships with schools, workforce development organizations, veterans' groups, technical programs, and community organizations, and create values-aligned volunteer and service opportunities.
Enhance Winnebago's employment brand in the communities where it operates and promote employee pride in the company and its community impact.
Provide strategic leadership for talent acquisition as an employee experience function; establish recruiting practices consistent with the Winnebago Welcome System and ensure professional, responsive, candidate-centered hiring.
Oversee recruitment marketing and employer branding, and improve quality of hire, diversity of candidate slates, recruiting efficiency, and candidate satisfaction.
Partner with business leaders to address talent needs and create recruiting processes reflecting respect, professionalism, and inclusion.
Champion The Winnebago Way by translating leadership expectations into observable behaviors and embedding leadership principles in onboarding, performance management, talent reviews, leadership development, manager training, and coaching.
Ensure leaders understand their role in shaping employee experience; create tools, resources, and experiences that reinforce leadership accountability and consistency; and measure adoption and effectiveness of Winnebago Way behaviors.
Model and reinforce intentional experience design, visible leadership, clear communication, belonging, development of others, service, and consistency.