Specific Responsibilities

The CVCM Senior HR/OE Partner plays an integral role in moving the CVCM org towards becoming the World Class Supply Chain organization. We have a critical need for an individual to play the strategic partner role to assist in maintaining organizational alignment through partnerships with the business. This person will lead efforts across CVCM and will partner with the HR business partners to create and drive organization effectiveness, and Support business leaders in building OE capability.
In this role, you will have the responsibility to:
•Serve as a trusted business partner to the various executives within CVCM to drive organizational effectiveness and organizational alignment
•Lead strategic projects – organizational design, effectiveness and change management that result in positive impact on the business
•Create and implement solutions that align employees with CVCM strategy and vision, by facilitating strategic priority discussions, goal alignment and goal deployment sessions across the different organizations.
•Conduct organizational diagnostic using fact-based methodologies to identify critical issues and root causes; provide objective, data-based perspective on relevant organizational and HR issues and recommend/implement and measure appropriate interventions to address organizational issues. Lead organizational design, organizational development, talent development, change management, process re-engineering as required by the project
• Challenge leaders to stretch the organization and build capability to Support global business needs.
•Provide thought leadership, consulting, and implementation support, as well as organizational development and change management tools.
•Partners with CVCM Senior Leaders to diagnose complex organizational design and development needs. Facilitates complex organizational discussions/ problem solving while maintaining a high level of leadership engagement and involvement
•Helps to develop/design the integration of CVCM strategy and Employee and Organizational Capabilities
•Driving the Talent Management Process – alignment of resources to the top priorities, building capabilities needed to achieve the stated vision & strategy and investment in the talent

Your performance will be measured by your achievement against the duties above as well as additional responsibilities. You will report directly to the CVCM Senior Director of HR.
Required Experience and Skills
The ideal CVCM HR/OE Partner will possess the following experience and skills
•BA/BA
•MS/MBA in Organizational Development, Org Effectiveness, Strategic Management
•Consulting experience in manufacturing/operating environments
•PMP certification is a plus
•Experience in working in integrated supply chain environments (advancedManufacturing, globalManufacturing, CM management, materials planning, demand planning operations)
•Full proficiency with a personal Computer and all MS Office applications – especially Excel and PowerPoint
•Strong cross-functional Project Management experience across key enterprise functions
•Strong understanding of Change Management, Human Resources and Communications principles
•Acute sense of situational awareness - critical
•Ability to handle ambiguity with ease - critical
•Energy, drive and commitment to the task – critical
•Clearly demonstrated aptitude in leading virtual teams
•Exceptional verbal communication and presentation skills
•Ability to communicate effectively at both an Executive and individual contributor level
•Ability to work in a fast paced environment that can have rapidly changing priorities
•Previous leadership experience highly preferred
•Functional expertise and demonstrated success in OD/OE concepts and practices including: strategy development and execution organizational change, leading large, complex projects, executing high involvement problem solving, work redesign, process mapping, organization design, etc.
•Experience leading complex OE projects across business units, countries and preferably regions
•Experience influencing stakeholders from all organizational levels
•Exceptional leadership skills, including: ability to influence and drive results oriented change, and innovation, customer focus, fostering relationships, effective communication and leading people.
•Strong organizational skills, strong public speaking skills, excellent problem solving skills, strong decision making skills and excellent communication skills, written and verbal

Critical Success Factors
A successful individual in this role will exhibit the following characteristics
•Impeccable facilitating skills to drive change
•Ability to drive complex organizational design solutions in an operations environment
•Critical thinking skills; ability to take sizeable problems and break them into small manageable chunks
•Committed, dedicated and willing to make the sacrifices necessary to achieve success
•Ability to broadly influence the organization across ALL levels of leadership
•Well-developed ability to collaborate and partner across functions
•Clear and crisp articulator. Excellent presentation skills
•Understands and embodies Cisco 3.0 leadership
•Deep analytical skills – logical problem solver
•Exceptionally organized program manager
•Patient problem solver
•Results focused


Knowledge, Experience and Skills

Experienced - Non Manager