Talent Planning & Performance Manager

BECU

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

At BECU, your work shapes how people grow, perform, and thrive. As the Talent Planning & Performance Manager, you’ll make a meaningful impact in this individual contributor role by bringing structure, clarity, and momentum to BECU’s talent programs. You’ll be at the center of performance management, talent reviews, and career development—helping leaders and employees navigate these experiences with confidence. This role is ideal if you enjoy connecting dots across teams, bringing order to complex processes, and turning data into insights that matter. Your efforts will ensure our talent tools, resources, and programs are not only effective, but genuinely empowering for the people who use them—including you. To join our dynamic team in this role, we require candidates to be residents of WA, OR, ID, CA, AZ, or TX. If you’re located in Washington state and within a reasonable driving distance to our Tukwila Headquarters (TFC), we encourage you come into the office on Tuesdays & Wednesdays each week. For those candidates that live outside the commutable distance to TFC and in any of our approved remote work locations, this role will be primarily remote. Remote or onsite, we are committed to ensuring you are fully engaged and included in our collaborative environment.

Requirements

Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree in in Human Resources or related field.
Typically requires 5 years of experience in HR, Talent Management, Performance Management, and/or Program Management.

Nice To Haves

Demonstrated proficiency in change management, employee communication, and project management.
Strong communication skills with the ability to simplify complex processes.
Familiarity with workday or similar HRIS platforms.
Comfort with talent data, dashboards, and process documentation.
Experience in maintaining SharePoint sites and Teams channels.
A collaborative, service-oriented mindset and enthusiasm for operational excellence.

Responsibilities

Drive Performance Management Operations: You’ll manage key performance management deliverables by planning projects, tracking progress, and coordinating across teams to ensure cyclical processes run smoothly and on time.
Design and Maintain Talent Resources: You’ll keep SharePoint pages, toolkits, and job aids current, well-organized, and easy to navigate—making it simple for stakeholders to find what they need, when they need it.
Ensure System Accuracy and Readiness: You’ll conduct user acceptance testing (UAT) for Workday workflows and reports, helping ensure accuracy, usability, and a seamless experience before launch.
Enable Learning and Training Experiences: You’ll support training sessions and enablement efforts in partnership with the Talent Development team, helping bring new tools and processes to life.
Coordinate Talent Reviews and Succession Planning: You’ll manage logistics, prepare materials, and support follow-up actions for talent reviews and succession planning, working closely with HR partners.
Support Career Frameworks and Pathways: You’ll contribute to career framework initiatives by mapping roles, extracting skills from job descriptions, maintaining visual career maps, and tracking learning resources tied to career pathways.
Drive Continuous Improvement: You’ll use data, feedback, and retrospectives to identify opportunities for improvement, surfacing risks, dependencies, and resource needs to your Manager for prioritization and guidance.
Deliver Clear Talent Communications: You’ll execute communication campaigns for both cyclical and episodic talent activities, ensuring stakeholders receive clear, timely, and relevant updates.
Collaborate Across Strategic Initiatives: You’ll partner on additional project workstreams that align talent strategies with broader organizational priorities.
Support the Team Where Needed: You’ll perform other duties as assigned, contributing to the overall success of the talent team.