Senior Manager, Talent Management

Position Overview:

Regal Rexnord is seeking a Sr Manager, Talent Management & Early Career to lead a team of professionals to build, deliver, and continuously improve the company’s enterprise Talent Management and Early Career program
portfolios. This leader drives strategic execution of performance management, goal setting, succession planning, talent reviews, and early-career pipelines—balancing strategic planning with hands-on delivery. As a leader, this role will manage a small team of professionals providing direction, coaching, development, and clear priorities. Additionally, the role is expected to:

• Set annual work plans, monitor progress, and ensure the team delivers consistent, high-quality outcomes.
• Delegate effectively, ensuring team members own programs, events, and TM cycle components.
• Establish repeatable processes and operational mechanisms that improve efficiency and scalability.
• Identify and remove roadblocks that impede program execution or adoption.
• Recommend improvements to TM and EC strategies based on insights and frontline experience.
• Manage communications, timelines, and alignment across HR and business stakeholders.

This role requires strong cross-functional partnership with HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, HRIS, Analytics, Communications, segment leadership teams, and external university and assessment partners. It also requires strong program management capability, data fluency, and an ability to drive inclusive, scalable, repeatable talent routines across a global, de-centralized/matrixed enterprise.
This role reports into the Sr Director, Talent Management.

Key Responsibilities
Talent Management Leadership (Approx. 60%)

• Lead enterprise execution of annual TM cycles (goal setting, mid-year and year-end performance cycles, enterprise calibration and talent reviews).
• Evolve standard work used to support enterprise talent reviews and cadence.
• Strengthen succession management and leadership pipelines through bench analytics, readiness frameworks and supporting technologies – e.g., Workday.
• Sustain the Leadership Competency Model and associated assessments. Partner with L&D team to advance development planning playbooks.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on internal mobility, workforce planning, and talent forecasting.
• Identify process improvements and digitization opportunities across talent cycles, consistent with external TM modernization expectations.
• Use talent metrics, dashboards, and insights to inform decision-making and deliver enterprise-ready reporting.
• Early Career Leadership (Approx. 40%)
• Lead team members responsible for designing and managing:
• General Management Development Program (GMDP)
• Early Career Rotational Program (ECRP)
• Create and manage annual EC plans, including cohort recruitment, rotational placements, development programming, performance checkpoints, and executive exposure.
• Assess EC program effectiveness using retention, readiness, conversion, engagement, and leader feedback to recommend program improvements.
• Manage rotation leader relationships and support successful participant placement, performance outcomes, and engagement.
• Ensure cohesion and coordination across universities, TA, EC operations, and business segments.
• Address participant needs, resolve issues, and steward a high-quality experiences.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Organization Development, or related field.
• 7+ years of experience across Talent Management, Leadership Development, Early Career, or HRBP roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams or managing programs at scale.
• Strong portfolio of Talent Management execution experience (performance cycles, succession reviews, leadership competency frameworks).
• Experience managing rotational or early-career programs.
• Strong facilitation, communication, and executive-ready presentation skills.
• Ability to influence and partner across HR functions, business leadership, and technical partners (HRIS, Analytics, Communications).
• Proven ability to prioritize, manage multiple cycles, and operate both strategically and operationally.

Preferred Skills & Qualifications:

• Experience in a global industrial manufacturing environment.
• Exposure to assessments (360s, psychometrics, personality inventories).
• Experience with Workday talent modules or comparable platforms.

Candidates must be eligible to work in the United States without requiring company sponsorship to obtain or keep U.S. work authorization.

The salary range provided is intended to display the value of the company's base pay compensation for this position. Salary is dependent on a multitude of factors, including but not limited to the physical worksite location, the geographic market of that location, candidate's skill set, level of experience, education and internal peer compensation comparisons among other potential factors.

Annual base salary range: $120,000 to $160,000

• Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Coverage
• Spending accounts (HSA, Health Care FSA and Dependent Care FSA)
• Paid Time Off and Holidays
• 401k Retirement Plan with Matching Employer Contributions
• Life and Accidental Death & Dismemberment (AD&D) Insurance
• Paid Leaves
• Tuition Assistance

Regal Rexnord is a publicly held global industrial manufacturer with 30,000 associates around the world who help create a better tomorrow by providing sustainable solutions that power, transmit and control motion. The Company’s electric motors and air moving subsystems provide the power to create motion. A portfolio of highly engineered power transmission components and subsystems efficiently transmits motion to power industrial applications. The Company’s automation offering, comprised of controls, actuators, drives, and precision motors, controls motion in applications ranging from factory automation to precision control in surgical tools.

The Company’s end markets benefit from meaningful secular demand tailwinds, and include factory automation, food & beverage, aerospace, medical, data center, warehouse, alternative energy, residential and commercial buildings, general industrial, construction, metals and mining, and agriculture.

Regal Rexnord is comprised of three operating segments: Industrial Powertrain Solutions, Power Efficiency Solutions, and Automation & Motion Control. Regal Rexnord has offices and manufacturing, sales and service facilities worldwide. For more information, including a copy of our Sustainability Report, visit RegalRexnord.com.

Regal Rexnord is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex/gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, ancestry, national origin, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status (unless required by the applicable law or government contract), disability or protected veteran status or any other status or characteristic protected by law. Regal Rexnord is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse and inclusive backgrounds, perspectives, and skills.  If you’d like to view a copy of the company’s affirmative action plan for protected veterans/individuals with disabilities or policy statement, please email [email protected]. If you have a disability and you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an online application, please e-mail [email protected].

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