About us: based in greater los angeles, national veterinary associates (“nva”) is the largest private owner of unbranded freestanding veterinary hospitals in north america, with over 1,300 companion animal and equine veterinary hospitals, and pet resort locations in the united states, canada, australia, new zealand, and singapore.
Nva has grown rapidly over its history and continues to aggressively execute its growth plans via a combination of acquisition, de novo and same-store initiativesNva competes in a $30 billion industry that has grown faster than gdp over 20+ years with few exceptionsThe industry is highly fragmented with approximately 22,000 veterinary hospitals; fewer than 5,000 are part of large chainsAdvancing medical sophistication and technology combined with the evolving human-animal bond is driving greater spend per pet and veterinarians will look to partner with companies that have the capital, expertise and management talent as the industry evolves.
A cornerstone of the nva culture is a servant leadership approach to our business, our hospitals, our pet resorts and our teamsWe find people who exemplify the same servant leadership approach are best suited for nvaWe are a community dedicated to the love of animals and the people who love animals.
Job summary:
We are looking for someone who enjoys finding creative ways to leverage technology to build relationships, enable collaboration, foster learning and build state of the art performance and talent management processesAs the program manager, you will primarily be responsible for managing talent unleashed, nva’s integrated talent management system powered by cornerstone ondemandYou will collaborate with key stakeholders from each business line to and generate awareness of the system’s talent management capabilitiesIn this role you will have the opportunity to consult, configure and manage performance and talent management processes as well as relevant learning contentThis role will also participate in the design of micro-learning content and learning management.
Responsibilities:
Manage the configuration and implementation of learning, performance and talent management tasks and projects according to each business unit’s calendar.
Stay abreast of and communicate new learning, performance and talent management features that could enhance our current process.
Support quarterly csod releases by handling communications and organizing testing, of impacted modules.
Establish and support an ongoing integrated talent management strategy including performance, succession and learning and social learning features.
Establish and support gamification strategy for performance recognition and learning.
Ongoing support/marketing for division-level welcome pages.
Create custom dashboards and report with key talent related data to promote awareness and decision making.
Facilitate training on the performance, succession and lms for users.
Facilitate system demos of the lms, performance and succession to promote usership and market new functionality.
Serve as backup for user data management.
Support in the creation and management of learning objects including: online courses, materials, ilt/vilt, videos, playlists, curricula, programs/cohorts, etc.).
Cross-train talent and learning team members to leverage functionality.
Knowledge, skills, and abilities:
5+ years of cornerstone ondemand talent management (learning, performance and succession) experience, with a minimum of 5 years of experience in system administration
5 + years’ experience with csod reporting 2.0
Experience with csod compensation module is preferred
Project management experience
Ability to consult and recommend best practices regarding performance, talent management and learning strategy
Comfortable with basic html and css programming
Experience with virtual workflow and collaboration tools like:
O sharepoint
O other office 365 tools
Displayed mastery of microsoft office other productivity tools, specifically: word, excel, powerpoint, outlook, teams
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to adapt writing style from instructional to marketing, etc.
Familiarity with instructional design concepts
Experience gathering requirements through consultative needs assessment
Ability to balance the needs of diverse stakeholders
Ability to successfully manage multiple projects with competing deadlines
Proactively seeks opportunities to partner with the business and add value through talent management solutions
Nva is an equal opportunity employerAll qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran or disabled status, or genetic informationThis role is not eligible for visa sponsorshipHiring is contingent on candidate verifying their eligibility to work in the united states and passing a complete background check and drug screen.
This role is not open to receiving agency candidates and any contingent submissions will not be honored.
