Job Summary:
The Employee Experience Manager will bring Coherent values to life by supporting the development and execution of Coherent's communication and people and culture strategies designed to develop, motivate, and retain productive, engaged employees. This will include all culture initiatives and change management as well as support the review of materials intended for all employees and support the review process and development of corporate brand advertising and institutional advertising with a high attention to detail. Additionally, working directly with the VP of Employee Experience, Senior Business and Functional Leadership and the HR Leadership Team, this individual will work to enhance employee engagement, creating a high-performance, sustainable organization that meets its strategic and operational goals.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
- Building scalable Employee Experience systems and processes that balance efficiency with a human-centered approach.
- Driving initiatives that strengthen accountability, team effectiveness, and cultural cohesion across distributed teams.
- Collaborate with different teams and departments to provide positive employee experiences with an enterprise-wide mindset.
- Acts as a change agent, builds and delivers change acceptance strategies and sustainability plans for programs, initiatives, projects and services to improve organizational performance
- Analyze issues and influence solutions and execute large-scale change projects with measurable outcomes.
- Builds strategic relationships with key stakeholders, including HR Business Partners, and internal and external service partners.
- Support our culture with innovative and proven strategies around onboarding and ongoing education of emerging trends in the employee experience space.
- Help define and drive a culture that embodies Coherent's norms that reward, promote and encourage high performance throughout the organization.
- Support the HR function to accelerate their talent priorities, development and readiness
- Continuously leverage business/HRBP feedback, observations & Talent data/scorecards to adjust short-term solutions/approach ensuring our long-term talent objectives are achieved
- Assists management in articulating corporate goals, branding and image. Develops plans to effectively communicate these goals to the appropriate internal and external audiences. Initiates, develops and implements communications plans and programs, both internally and externally, for corporate projects and products
- Ensures continuity of consistent corporate image and message.
- Provides direction and implementation support for the design and creation of communications materials including printed items such as brochures and posters, audio and video materials, and the intranet site.
- Ensures the development and maintenance of internal/external communications programs designed to contribute to a harmonious and motivated workforce. Supports the preparation, editing, publication and distribution of employee collateral and communication channels.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor Degree in Communication, Business, Human Resources, Organizational Development, in journalism, public relations, communication or other related field.
- Minimum of 8 years of progressive Organization Development and Organizational Effectiveness experience.
Skills & Other Requirements
- Strong designing skills, hands-on experience with designing tools Canva, Figma, Ai & Gallop System, Final Cut.
- Priority to focus designing content and social media engagements – LinkedIn, Instagram and Facebook
- Ability to think conceptually and strategically, while maintaining results-driven approach.
- Strong leadership experience implementing large-scale organizational initiatives, from inception through completion, which cut across multiple business units, geographies, teams and HR partners.
- A team player by nature, but a strong leader with an open and direct style.
- Ability to think strategically and translate strategies into actionable plans.
- Demonstrated ability to lead organizational change through change management skills.
- Ability to navigate and influence across complex organizations, establishes relationships as a trusted advisor.
- Highly motivated and success-driven with the ability to implement and manage cross-functional projects.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, as well as negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
- Proven ability to operate strategically and have a hands-on approach. Operates in a transparent fashion without a personal agenda.
- Proven ability to roll out and manage employee experience solutions on global scale.
- Exceptional project management skills, from concept, to planning, to implementation, to results measurement.
