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Global Process Owner - Learning, Talent, and Onboardingnew

Willis Towers Watson · Exchange / Data / Ratings

The role serves as the primary authority for global process design and governance decisions, ensuring sustainable process performance and operational excellence across the Learning, Talent, and Onboarding value streams.

 

  • Own the end-to-end Learning, Talent, and Onboarding process architecture, strategy, governance framework, and performance outcomes across all regions, business segments, and delivery organizations. 

  • Partner with HR, Talent, Learning, HRIT, business leaders, and HR Services teams to identify process opportunities, and define short- and long-term process strategies that support enterprise objectives. 

  • Establish and maintain a global process governance model, including process ownership, decision rights, performance expectations, controls, policies, standards, and exception management. 

  • Leverage process and operational data to generate insights, identify performance gaps, prioritize improvement opportunities, and enable data-driven decision making. 

  • Champion a process-first approach with digital / automation process to follow. 

  • Develop and maintain the global process roadmap, ensuring alignment between COE strategies, HR Services execution, HRIT enablement, business requirements, and employee experience objectives.

  • Maintain accountability for end-to-end Learning, Talent, and Onboarding process design, process health, performance standards, and continuous improvement priorities. 

     

  • Govern global process standards, policies, controls, roles, handoffs, exception frameworks, and decision-making authorities to ensure consistency and scalability. 

     

  • Define and monitor key process performance indicators, including effectiveness, efficiency, quality, cycle time, adoption, compliance, stakeholder experience, and business outcomes. 

  • Identify process risks, control gaps, and emerging business requirements, ensuring appropriate mitigation plans and governance mechanisms are established. 

     

  • Partner with HR Services, HRIT, Talent, and Learning teams to ensure process execution aligns with approved standards and intended business outcomes. 

     

  • Evaluate and prioritize improvement opportunities, ensuring resources are focused on initiatives that deliver measurable value and strategic impact.

     

  • Collaborate with stakeholders and lead in defining and communicating the future-state vision, strategy, and roadmap for Learning, Talent, and Onboarding processes in alignment with enterprise objectives and the HR Operations Strategy Leader.

  • Serve as the main point of contact for leading cross-functional teams to implement and execute onboarding and talent development initiatives and process changes, including operating model updates, M&A impacts, location strategy, platform changes, and policy or control enhancements.

     

  • Standardize global onboarding and talent development practices where appropriate while enabling local legal, regulatory, and business requirements to be handled through clear exception governance.

     

  • Identify opportunities to improve self-service, automation, knowledge content, workflow orchestration, and reporting so that process execution is easier to manage and easier for employees and managers to navigate.

     

  • Translate transformation priorities into roadmaps, milestones, stakeholder engagement plans, readiness activities, and measurable business outcomes.

     

 

  • 10+ years of HR operations, onboarding, learning, talent development, talent management, or related global process leadership experience with proven career progression and strong execution in GBS methodologies and centralization transformation.

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business, Human Resources, Organizational Development, Learning, or a related field; post-graduate degree is a plus.

  • Advanced working knowledge of HR technology platforms supporting onboarding, talent development, learning administration, case management, workflow, knowledge management, reporting, and HR data.

  • Experience working with multinational companies, including large, geographically dispersed teams and offshore resources.

  • Ability to influence senior HR stakeholders and lead global HR projects with a focus on innovation, operational excellence, employee experience, and continuous improvement.

  • Strong strategic, business, analytical, and communication skills, with experience in consulting, professional services, or insurance/financial services being a plus.

  • Process management and process improvement knowledge is a plus.

 

WTW is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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