Program Manager, Global Emerging Talent

Accountabilities:

• • Provide strategic talent advisory: Partner with senior business leaders, HR, and talent teams to translate workforce demand and future capability requirements into innovative emerging talent solutions.
  • Shape global emerging talent strategy: Develop and execute strategies covering internships, apprenticeships, traineeships, and other early-career pathways, ensuring programs evolve with business and skills needs.
  • Apply workforce intelligence: Use labor market insights, talent intelligence, workforce data, and skills-based approaches to inform talent planning, investment decisions, and workforce priorities.
  • Lead global program delivery: Own the full lifecycle of emerging talent programs, from strategy and planning through implementation, measurement, optimization, and continuous improvement.
  • Build scalable operating models: Establish frameworks, governance structures, processes, and operating rhythms that support consistent global execution while accommodating regional requirements.
  • Drive cross-functional initiatives: Coordinate complex programs across HR, Talent Acquisition, Talent Marketplace, HR Operations, Finance, Communications, Legal, and business teams.
  • Measure business impact: Establish KPIs, dashboards, reporting frameworks, and success measures that demonstrate program effectiveness, talent outcomes, and contribution to business goals.
  • Connect talent pathways to broader workforce strategy: Integrate emerging talent programs with talent marketplace initiatives, workforce planning, internal mobility, skills-based practices, and long-term capability development.
  • Influence senior stakeholders: Deliver clear recommendations, executive presentations, and strategic communications that turn complex workforce challenges into actionable decisions.
  • Lead change and adoption: Develop stakeholder engagement and communications strategies that create alignment, accelerate adoption, and embed new approaches to talent development across global teams.
  • Champion emerging talent: Act as a visible advocate for workforce innovation, skills-based talent strategies, continuous learning, and sustainable talent pipelines.
  • Continuously improve programs: Identify opportunities to modernize talent practices, strengthen participant conversion into high-impact roles, and increase the strategic value of emerging talent initiatives.

  Requirements:

  • Experience: 7+ years leading enterprise-wide programs, workforce initiatives, talent strategies, or related projects within Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, Talent Management, or a comparable function.
  • Strategic leadership: Demonstrated success partnering with senior leaders to shape strategy, influence decisions, lead organizational change, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Program management: Proven ability to manage complex, global, cross-functional programs involving multiple stakeholders, priorities, and geographies.
  • Talent expertise: Strong understanding of emerging talent, workforce strategy, talent development, skills-based approaches, or related disciplines.
  • Emerging talent experience: Experience building, scaling, or optimizing internship, apprenticeship, trainee, or comparable early-career talent programs is highly desirable.
  • Workforce intelligence: Experience using talent intelligence, labor market data, workforce analytics, talent mobility, or skills-based workforce practices to support strategic decisions.
  • Strategic workforce planning: Familiarity with Build-Borrow-Buy-Place principles and approaches to aligning workforce supply with evolving business requirements.
  • Change leadership: Strong capability in stakeholder engagement, organizational change, adoption planning, and transformation initiatives.
  • Communication: Excellent executive communication, facilitation, consulting, presentation, and relationship-building skills, with the ability to communicate complex ideas clearly and persuasively.
  • Business orientation: Ability to translate workforce challenges into scalable talent solutions that deliver tangible organizational and business value.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional experience.
  • Additional qualifications: Program, project management, Agile, or change management certifications are a plus.
  • Global mindset: Experience working within complex, geographically distributed organizations undergoing transformation is advantageous.

  Benefits:

  • Competitive compensation: U.S. base salary range of $118,000–$176,000 USD annually for the Dallas location, depending on role, level, location, skills, experience, and education.
  • Performance incentives: Eligibility for bonus compensation, with equity opportunities available depending on the position.
  • Health and insurance benefits: Medical, health, life, disability, and voluntary benefit plans for eligible employees and dependents.
  • Retirement benefits: Access to employer-sponsored retirement and savings programs to support long-term financial planning.
  • Paid time off: Accrued PTO and paid holidays to support rest, recharge, and work-life balance.
  • Employee Assistance Program: Resources and support for personal, professional, and well-being needs.
  • Flexible benefits and perks: Access to additional benefits and programs designed to support employees across different stages of their careers and lives.
  • Inclusive and collaborative environment: A workplace focused on belonging, connection, innovation, and giving employees opportunities to shape meaningful outcomes.
  • Career development: Opportunities to work across teams, influence strategic decisions, develop new capabilities, and contribute to large-scale transformation.
  • Global impact: The opportunity to help shape workforce strategies and emerging talent pathways across a complex international organization.