Talent Manager

Build a career powered by innovations that matter! At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing-improving productivity, enhancing people's lives and redefining what's possible. We create for our global customers engineered components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications-from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is one global team with over 26 offices located in The Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. Looking for a great place to work? You have found it with a culture that embraces teamwork, collaboration and empowerment. Come explore Novanta.

Company Overview

Build a career powered by innovations that matter. At Novanta, our innovations power technology products that are transforming healthcare and advanced manufacturing-improving productivity, enhancing people's lives and redefining what's possible. We serve as a trusted technology partner to medical and advanced industrial original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide, engineering components and sub-systems that deliver extreme precision and performance for a range of mission-critical applications-from minimally invasive surgery to robotics to 3D metal printing.

Novanta is a global organization with offices located throughout EMEA, The Americas and Asia Pacific. Novanta is a publicly traded company on NASDAQ under symbol NOVT.

Business Unit Overview

This position is part of Novanta's Corporate and Shared Services global teams. Novanta's Corporate and Shared Services teams play an important role in executing the company's strategic mission and operations. Included in Corporate and Shared Services are the business functions including Finance, Accounting, Human Resources, Information Technology, Legal, Compliance, Corporate Development and Corporate Marketing. The Corporate and Shared Services teams work closely with all Novanta business units to support operating initiatives contributing to the organization's financial success.

Summary

This role is accountable to develop and implement a targeted Leadership Talent agenda and priorities that drive leader, team, and organization effectiveness. The Talent Manager will consistently and objectively assess incumbents and influence Business Leaders and HR partners to ensure Novanta has strong leaders and succession bench for senior level and critical roles across the Enterprise.

Primary Responsibilities

• Serves as the thought leader and subject matter expert for the discipline of Talent Management.

• Drives talent planning process across Novanta: including establishing a talent planning rigor and cadence, facilitating talent planning sessions with business leaders, and tracking talent movement and actions.

• Partners with HR leaders and business leaders to identify and prioritize short and long-term leadership development solutions.

• Collaborates with leaders and HR team to help Novanta achieve Diversity, Equity and Inclusion aspirations.

Required Experience, Education, Skills, Training and Competencies

• 5-7 years of Human Resources leadership experience

• Advanced knowledge of talent and succession planning, organization development and design, and leadership assessment processes

• Intellectual curiosity and passion around talent and leader development

• Proven ability to develop and execute talent strategies and solutions

• Poise, polish, and communication skills commensurate with engaging with senior level business leaders

• Big picture thinker who can also be highly detail oriented; ability to think strategically combined with a hard wiring to execute

• Drive to deliver results, accountability and ownership of work, and operate with a continuous improvement mindset; strong work ethic

• Agile and rigorous problem solver with ability to drive and embrace change

• High energy, self-starter who can work independently and within a team environment

Travel Requirements

• Up to 10%

Physical Requirements

• Mobility to work in a standard office setting and to use standard office equipment, including a computer.

• Ability to use vison to read computer screen and read printed materials

Novanta is proud to be an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action workplace. We consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, military and veteran status, disability, genetics, or any other category protected by federal law or Novanta policy.

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