Greater Purpose and Core Values: Athletico’s Greater Purpose is to empower people, inspire hope and transform lives. We accomplish this by providing exceptional, progressive, and cost-effective fitness, performance and rehabilitative services through personalized care that emphasizes education and prevention of future injury. This is accomplished through building on our Core Values of one team, understanding our business, recognition, people-focused, accountability, continuous innovation and trust and integrity, which are the foundation for our unique culture.

Position Summary:

The Talent Development Specialist is responsible for the implementation and execution of Talent Development initiatives including employee development and mentorship programs, employee engagement initiatives, and supporting annual performance review processes and training programs and systems. This role will be responsible for helping to execute the employee engagement strategy through effective programming efforts.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Supports the design, execution and management of talent development programs and initiatives including individual development plans (IDP’s), trainings and mentoring programs.
• Design tools, templates and content that contribute to employee engagement effectiveness and drive a positive employee experience.
• Support the administration of talent development technology platforms, including the Learning Management System (LMS).
• Executes and implements the talent strategy for the company’s social learning groups such as Advisory Council and employee focus groups.
• Facilitate and supports ongoing education sessions through employee focus group at various organization levels to gather input and socialize feedback.
• Supports talent development initiatives including performance management, talent development, change management, employee engagement and process enhancements to assist with employee retention and engagement.
• Plans, designs and executes employee engagement initiatives including employee onboarding new hire orientation and onboarding mentoring programs, content curation, and utilizing best practice research and technology that drives connectivity and cohesion within the Athletico culture.
• Uses data to drive initiatives and create reporting and metrics to continuously track and monitor employee engagement initiatives and provide readouts to the business and appropriate stakeholders on employee engagement initiative adoption throughout the year.
• Create and edit communication materials pertaining to talent, development, performance, and employee engagement initiatives.
• Maintenance of Talent inboxes, responding to messages and re-directing where appropriate.
• Proactively identifies industry and company trends and creates action plans to increase engagement.
• Provide consultation on individual employee development needs, as appropriate, and help maintain plans and action items relative to talent reviews and succession planning.

Qualifications

• Education:
  • Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration or related field
• Work Experience:
  • At least 3 years’ experience in HR or Marketing
  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in customer relations or marketing preferred.
  • 5+ years of administrative experience required.
• Certification/Licensure:
  • None required
• Knowledge and Technical Skills:
  • Strong communication and analytical skills.
  • Advanced Microsoft word, excel, and PowerPoint skills.
  • Ability to influence, lead and manage projects in a matrix environment.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and maintain confidentiality.
  • Excellent organizational skills with the ability to multi-task. 
  • Possesses excellent communication skills across all levels of the organization, with an ability to persuade and influence, and the ability to build enthusiasm and commitment.
  • Exceptional relationship building and managing skills are essential.
  • Results-oriented and focused on inspiring the organization to focus on continuous improvements that positively impact the organization.
  • Process-oriented problem solver with strong analytical and research skills.
  • Ability to prioritize workload, manage projects and handle multiple responsibilities while meeting deadlines.
  • Ability to successfully execute at a strategic as well as tactical/hands-on level.

Language Skills

• Ability to read, write and speak English proficiently.

HR Use Only

The physical demands and work environment describe here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential function.

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Athletico provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.   This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Salaried ranges listed are for full time (40 hour) employees. Additional pay such as incentive, GAP, overtime, and stipends are subject to the rules of each program and may not be available in all locations. Individual base pay depends on various factors, in addition to primary work location, such as complexity and responsibility of role, job duties/requirements, and relevant experience and skills. Base pay ranges are reviewed and typically updated each year. Offers are made within the base pay range applicable at the time.