HR Manager, Marketing and Commercial

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Job Title Human Resources Manager, Marketing and Commercial

Location Santa Monica, CA or Irvine, CA

Your Platform

Activision Blizzard plays a centralized role in the creation of epic entertainment by supporting our interactive gaming brands and studios with a diverse range of career opportunities across corporate functions such as Marketing, Communications, Legal, Human Resources (HR), Finance and Supply Chain. Located in our global headquarters in Santa Monica, we encompass equal parts agility, creativity, and rigor to enhance the employee and player experience. To learn more, check us out at www.activisionblizzard.com or on Twitter at @ATVI_AB.

Your Mission

As the HR Manager for the Global Marketing and Commercial organizations for Activision Blizzard, you will be a strategic business partner, culture carrier, and trusted advisor for leaders in the marketing and commercial organizations. You will partner closely with the Vice President, HR and Senior Vice President, HR and key executives to create, implement, and drive a talent agenda and strategy for the organization.

This role is primarily focused on leaders located in the United States, although some have global teams. This position requires an energetic, collaborative, and agile HR professional who can work effectively across a highly matrixed environment and navigate comfortably in areas of ambiguity. The HR Manager will be trusted to coordinate and facilitate delivery of HR responsibilities including (but not limited to) organization design, change management, employee engagement, employee relations, talent acquisition, performance management, learning & development, compensation, and HR process administration. Immediate focus areas include design of fast-changing business organizations, employee engagement and retention, and compensation evaluation and implementation. The ideal candidate is a self-starter who can partner effectively across several HR and business stakeholders.

Priorities can often change in a fast-paced environment like ours, so this role includes, but is not limited to, the following responsibilities:
• Leverage the resources and centers of excellence (COE) across the global human resources organization to provide full-scope HR support to leaders: executive coaching, employee relations, talent acquisition, employee engagement and development, organizational design and change management, cyclical compensation and performance processes
• Identify levers and develop strategies that measurably improve engagement and retention (e.g. talent assessments, engagement surveys, exit surveys)
• Drive change management efforts across organizations, ensuring employee and stakeholder impact are at the forefront of decisions, and that changes are executed with strong process integrity
• Manage the execution of HR employee lifecycle processes throughout assigned organizations, including goal setting, performance management, talent planning and annual merit (compensation)
• Lead and participate in cross-functional projects as needed to enhance the overall HR function, i.e., HR processes, policies, systems, that impact employee experience and productivity and may progress the company as a whole
• Build relationships with leaders and employees to be positioned as a trusted, knowledgeable, and plugged-in HR business partner who can proactively recognize future team needs and develop long-term plans that support business objectives
• Act as a catalyst for change: help set direction, manage strong change management and create execution plans for organization changes
• Work with leaders and employees to identify, establish, and maintain a positive work environment and authentic culture which encourages diversity, inclusion, and belonging

Player Profile Requirements
• 5+ years of progressive HR (or other relevant) experience
• Bachelor's degree preferred; advanced degree in HR, business, or related field a plus
• HR experience with a focus commercially-oriented functions preferred
• Proven experience directly supporting managers and senior leaders, influencing leaders to make better people decisions that achieve business results
• Strategic consultative approach with the ability to build relationships, credibility and trust with employees and management
• Exceptional project and process management skills delivering high-quality results in a fast-paced, complex, dynamic business environment
• Knowledge of contemporary HR practices
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Strong communicator with the ability to craft meaningful, effective messaging on business objectives or priorities to a diverse audience
• Highly collaborative team player with a roll-up-one's-sleeves attitude

About Activision Blizzard Media

Activision Blizzard Media is the gateway for brands to the #1 cross-platform gaming company in the western world, with hundreds of millions of players across over 190 countries. Our legendary portfolio includes iconic mobile game franchises such as Candy Crush™, esports opportunities like the Call of Duty® and Overwatch® Leagues, and some of the top PC and console gaming franchises such as World of Warcraft®, Call of Duty®, and StarCraft®.

The idea is simple: great game experiences offer great marketing experiences. We have built a new team to introduce innovative, impactful, and rewarding advertising experiences to our huge audience of highly-engaged players. We are looking for new talents to help take our emergent media offering to the next level.

We need all sorts of heroes

Making games is fun. Especially when you do it with people who share the same idea of what makes a good workplace, great. We design games for everyone, no matter where they are or who they are, and we employ all sorts of people from all kinds of backgrounds to bring them to life. Truth is, we simply can't expect diversity in our players and originality in our games without first nurturing it in our people.

Ready to play?

Come join our world and work alongside some of the best and brightest minds in the business.

All applications should be made in English.

Discover more at https://www.activisionblizzardmedia.com/

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-re4kb2-3-145-60-149-42 in your application.