Strategic Talent Enablement Partner

About Kennametal

With over 80 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defense, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Every day approximately 8,700 employees are helping customers in nearly 100 countries stay competitive. Kennametal generated $2.1 billion in revenues in fiscal 2023. Learn more at . Follow @Kennametal: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Strategic Talent Enablement Partner
Location - Pittsburgh, PA

Job Summary

This role is accountable for improving business and talent performance and acting as a thought leader to executive(s) within Kennametal. As a global strategic talent leader, you will be aligned to one of Kennametal’s Business Units. You will own the development and lead the implementation of a comprehensive forward looking global talent and organizational strategy for that group. You will partner with leaders to take on the most pressing talent opportunities and challenges at a strategic level and successfully create value for the business.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Primary contact for matters related to Talent and Culture strategy
• Collaborate with business leadership to execute HR strategy in support of the business strategy:
  • Drive strategic Talent and Culture initiatives
  • Identify the people implications aligned to the business strategies and build a plan to support
  • Drive linkage between HR programs / solutions and business needs
• Consistent analysis of data to identify gaps, areas of opportunity, missed outcomes or other areas requiring intervention
• Collaborate with other resources (HR, business, etc.) to understand constraints, costs and availability of all aspects of HR/HR programs (i.e. total rewards, etc.) to drive best decisions for the organization
• Partner with business leadership and other HR areas (Center of Excellence, Manager and Employee Services, etc.) to identify, prioritize and build organizational capabilities
• Identify the need for and sponsor change initiatives to enable successful and long-term change acceptance
• Partner with business leadership to drive measurable talent initiatives including (but not limited to):
  • Directing and guiding talent development discussions
  • Identifying, developing and retaining high potential candidates to support a strong talent pipeline for our critical roles
  • Driving effective organization design and change management initiatives
  • Applying organizational talent assessment processes, facilitating calibrations
  • Identifying and addressing gaps in skill/abilities of leadership teams; working collaboratively to identify solutions to close identified gaps
  • Proactively identifying talent implications of the future business state/industry changes to identify talent implications and needs before they become critical
  • Facilitate talent sessions for Sr. Leaders + and critical roles
  • Coordinating the talent process execution with other parts of HR to ensure flow of information and connection to talent strategy
• Own the recruiting process for all Sr. Leaders and critical roles and ensure linkage to talent strategy and business objectives

Skills/Capabilities:

• Strategic Consulting
• Critical Thinking
• Collaboration and Networking
• Influencing Skills
• Data Storytelling
• Change Management
• Business knowledge (financial, etc.)
• Executive coaching

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or Human Resources
• Masters in Human Resources or Business Administration preferred
• 10+ years in Strategic Human Resource Experience to include talent strategy development, change management and data analytics
• Strong leadership skills with ability to influence and lead cross-functional teams globally
• Ability to develop strategic concepts into an actionable plan
• Executive communication skills
• Experience in driving change and results

Equal Opportunity Employer