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WGU is hiring a Manager, People & Talent Portfolio Management. This role leads and manages strategic initiatives and projects within the People & Talent function, collaborating with senior leadership to drive organizational change, improve employee engagement, and ensure successful delivery of key objectives. The Manager oversees product, project, and change management efforts, fosters team performance, and influences stakeholders in a complex matrixed environment.

Highlights

Lead execution of People & Talent portfolio initiatives and strategic projects impacting employee experience
Manage product, project, and change management functions within the People & Talent organization
Collaborate with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to identify problems and develop data-driven solutions
Drive process improvements, change initiatives, and manage multiple large-scale projects simultaneously
Provide regular updates on project status, risks, and deliverables to leadership
Strong skills in agile development, vendor management, forecasting, and budgeting required
Must have a Bachelor’s degree and 5+ years in product/project/change management, with at least 1 year leading teams
Preferred qualifications include PMP certification and experience supporting HR functions
Salary range: $101,000 to $181,800, with comprehensive benefits including bonuses, health coverage, and paid leave
Focus on advancing employee engagement, productivity, and satisfaction through innovative people practices

Manager, People & Talent Portfolio Management Full Description

Manager, People & Talent Portfolio Management

Salt Lake City Office

Full time

If you’re passionate about building a better future for individuals, communities, and our country—and you’re committed to working hard to play your part in building that future—consider WGU as the next step in your career.

Driven by a mission to expand access to higher education through online, competency-based degree programs, WGU is also committed to being a great place to work for a diverse workforce of student-focused professionals. The university has pioneered a new way to learn in the 21st century, one that has received praise from academic, industry, government, and media leaders. Whatever your role, working for WGU gives you a part to play in helping students graduate, creating a better tomorrow for themselves and their families.

The salary range for this position takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

At WGU, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their position, and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is:

Grade: Management_Executive 608Pay Range: $101,000.00 - $181,800.00

Job Description

The Manager, People & Talent Portfolio is responsible for advancing the People & Talent (P&T) vision, strategy, and initiatives through effective project management, product management, and people practices. This leader drives initiatives within the defined scope of P&T organizational strategies and objectives by overseeing high-priority workstreams, projects, and programs led by P&T leadership. In close partnership with the Senior P&T leadership team, this role achieves results through the strong leadership team of product and project managers. The Manager, People & Talent Portfolio, ensures industry standards and best practices are applied and aligned with P&T goals and objectives while effectively influencing change across a highly matrixed organization. This includes delivering strategies and initiatives on time and with measurable impacts. The Manager, People & Talent Portfolio develops and sustains a high performing, engaged team by developing and cultivating essential skills, recognizing contributions, and ensuring delivery on operational plans for P&T key results.

Primary Responsibilities:

Leads the P&T Portfolio team to ensure effective execution of all initiatives.
Provides direct portfolio support to the Senior P&T Leadership team by advancing initiatives through strategic and operating
Leads P&T's product, project, and change management functions as shared resources.
Envisions, articulates, and leads strategic projects that span across numerous P&T functions and have an impact on the entire WGU employee experience.
Collaborates with senior P&T leadership and other leaders across the university’s ecosystem to identify and solve problems through quantitative and qualitative data.
Actively analyzes evolving data to identify trends, develop strategies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
Actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, and balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.
Creates, leads and advocates for processes central to P&T practices while anticipating the impacts of proposed processes and changes.
Manage multiple large-scale projects at a time by conducting analysis around new products or services being developed, secondary research, holding internal stakeholder reviews, reporting on the process of existing projects, and coordinating workshops to brainstorm new products.
Gather and evaluate innovative ideas and opportunities that translate into actionable business initiatives.
Support the planning of strategies for the P&T function.
Maintains focus on introducing and advancing solutions for employee engagement, productivity, and satisfaction.
Provides regular project/change management updates, status, and targets to meet business deliverables.
Leads direct reports through deliverable review, issue escalation, brainstorming/solutions, adherence to workstream milestones, etc.
Ensures quality, consistency, and functionality of team outputs to drive high performance and engagement of all team members
Holds direct reports accountable to performance metrics
Work collaboratively with colleagues in a highly relationship-oriented environment
Effectively manages delegations of work effort while owning the completion of work products and deliverables.
Identifies project risks and issues and proposes mitigation measures and strategies.
Leads agile development processes to identify development and continuous improvement of existing and future people best practices.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Ability to organize, coordinate, and direct team activities and results.
Ability to lead through complex and multidimensional issues with broad-based consideration of variables that impact multiple areas of the organization.
Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal skills; exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment and across multiple stakeholders to ensure effective communication and collaboration across the department and/or organization.
Communicates effectively with all audiences and encourages the expression of diverse ideas and opinions.
Ability to influence leaders and stakeholders to align priorities, drive adoption of change, and deliver measurable outcomes through clear communication, negotiation, and relationship management.
Demonstrates strong executive presence by engaging leaders and stakeholders with confidence, communicating complex ideas with clarity, and inspiring trust to drive alignment and decision-making.
Makes sound decisions; bases decisions on fact rather than emotion; analyzes problems skillfully; uses logic to reach solutions.
Ability to deal with ambiguity - Can effectively cope with change, can decide and act without having the total picture, can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Understands processes and how to evaluate gap analyses and problem solve to address issues for timely resolution.
Strong process improvement mindset and high level of comfort working with technology to develop HR related solutions for a growing workforce at different levels.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects efficiently.
Experience managing vendor relationships, forecasting, and budgets.
Is resilient under pressure and maintains a positive attitude through adversity.
With a growth mindset, pushes for results in a data-driven environment and helps others to do the same.

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field
5+ years experience in product management, project management, and/or change management - experience working in or supporting a human resources function strongly preferred
1+ years leading and managing a team of direct reports
Experience presenting and interacting with audiences of all levels, including executives
Demonstrated ability to maintain a high level of trust, discretion, and confidentiality
Demonstrated experience and broad knowledge of agile operations and project management
Ability to work in the Salt Lake City, UT office up to 5 days per week as needed based on business needs

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years leading and managing a team of direct reports
Experience working in or supporting a human resources function
PMP certification (Project Management Professional)
Practical experience with change management and/or change management certification

This job description includes a general representation of job requirements rather than a comprehensive inventory of all required responsibilities or work activities. The contents of this document or related job requirements may change at any time with or without notice.

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Position & Application Details
Full-Time Regular Positions (classified as regular and working 40 standard weekly hours): This is a full-time, regular position (classified for 40 standard weekly hours) that is eligible for bonuses; medical, dental, vision, telehealth and mental healthcare; health savings account and flexible spending account; basic and voluntary life insurance; disability coverage; accident, critical illness and hospital indemnity supplemental coverages; legal and identity theft coverage; retirement savings plan; wellbeing program; discounted WGU tuition; and flexible paid time off for rest and relaxation with no need for accrual, flexible paid sick time with no need for accrual, 11 paid holidays, and other paid leaves, including up to 12 weeks of parental leave.

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.

Original Job Description

Manager, People & Talent Portfolio Management

Salt Lake City Office

Full time

Job Description

Primary Responsibilities:

Leads the P&T Portfolio team to ensure effective execution of all initiatives.
Provides direct portfolio support to the Senior P&T Leadership team by advancing initiatives through strategic and operating
Leads P&T's product, project, and change management functions as shared resources.
Envisions, articulates, and leads strategic projects that span across numerous P&T functions and have an impact on the entire WGU employee experience.
Collaborates with senior P&T leadership and other leaders across the university’s ecosystem to identify and solve problems through quantitative and qualitative data.
Actively analyzes evolving data to identify trends, develop strategies, and recommend solutions for improvement.
Actively generates process improvements, champions and drives change initiatives, confronts difficult circumstances in creative ways, and balances multiple and competing priorities and executes accordingly.
Creates, leads and advocates for processes central to P&T practices while anticipating the impacts of proposed processes and changes.
Manage multiple large-scale projects at a time by conducting analysis around new products or services being developed, secondary research, holding internal stakeholder reviews, reporting on the process of existing projects, and coordinating workshops to brainstorm new products.
Gather and evaluate innovative ideas and opportunities that translate into actionable business initiatives.
Support the planning of strategies for the P&T function.
Maintains focus on introducing and advancing solutions for employee engagement, productivity, and satisfaction.
Provides regular project/change management updates, status, and targets to meet business deliverables.
Leads direct reports through deliverable review, issue escalation, brainstorming/solutions, adherence to workstream milestones, etc.
Ensures quality, consistency, and functionality of team outputs to drive high performance and engagement of all team members
Holds direct reports accountable to performance metrics
Work collaboratively with colleagues in a highly relationship-oriented environment
Effectively manages delegations of work effort while owning the completion of work products and deliverables.
Identifies project risks and issues and proposes mitigation measures and strategies.
Leads agile development processes to identify development and continuous improvement of existing and future people best practices.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Ability to organize, coordinate, and direct team activities and results.
Ability to lead through complex and multidimensional issues with broad-based consideration of variables that impact multiple areas of the organization.
Outstanding written, verbal, and interpersonal skills; exceptional attention to detail.
Ability to work in a highly collaborative, cross-functional environment and across multiple stakeholders to ensure effective communication and collaboration across the department and/or organization.
Communicates effectively with all audiences and encourages the expression of diverse ideas and opinions.
Ability to influence leaders and stakeholders to align priorities, drive adoption of change, and deliver measurable outcomes through clear communication, negotiation, and relationship management.
Demonstrates strong executive presence by engaging leaders and stakeholders with confidence, communicating complex ideas with clarity, and inspiring trust to drive alignment and decision-making.
Makes sound decisions; bases decisions on fact rather than emotion; analyzes problems skillfully; uses logic to reach solutions.
Ability to deal with ambiguity - Can effectively cope with change, can decide and act without having the total picture, can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Understands processes and how to evaluate gap analyses and problem solve to address issues for timely resolution.
Strong process improvement mindset and high level of comfort working with technology to develop HR related solutions for a growing workforce at different levels.
Strong organizational skills and the ability to manage multiple projects efficiently.
Experience managing vendor relationships, forecasting, and budgets.
Is resilient under pressure and maintains a positive attitude through adversity.
With a growth mindset, pushes for results in a data-driven environment and helps others to do the same.

Job Qualifications:

Minimum Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in a related field
5+ years experience in product management, project management, and/or change management - experience working in or supporting a human resources function strongly preferred
1+ years leading and managing a team of direct reports
Experience presenting and interacting with audiences of all levels, including executives
Demonstrated ability to maintain a high level of trust, discretion, and confidentiality
Demonstrated experience and broad knowledge of agile operations and project management
Ability to work in the Salt Lake City, UT office up to 5 days per week as needed based on business needs

Preferred Qualifications:

3+ years leading and managing a team of direct reports
Experience working in or supporting a human resources function
PMP certification (Project Management Professional)
Practical experience with change management and/or change management certification

#LI-JB3

#LI-Onsite

How to Apply: If interested, an application will need to be submitted online. Internal WGU employees will need to apply through the internal job board in Workday.

Additional Information

Disclaimer: The job posting highlights the most critical responsibilities and requirements of the job. It’s not all-inclusive.

Accommodations: Applicants with disabilities who require assistance or accommodation during the application or interview process should contact our Talent Acquisition team at recruiting@wgu.edu.

Equal Employment Opportunity: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any protected characteristic as required by law.

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