Senior Manager, PE Business Partner - Sports Development

Position: Senior Manager, PE Business Partner - Sports Central Development
Description & Requirements
Electronic Arts creates next-level entertainment experiences that inspire players and fans around the world. Here, everyone is part of the story. Part of a community that connects across the globe. A place where creativity thrives, new perspectives are invited, and ideas matter. A team where everyone makes play happen.

The Opportunity Ahead
Senior Manager, PE Business Partner – EA SPORTS, Central Development

Our Senior Manager, PE Business Partner manages the business partner relationship in support of the talent strategy, workforce plan and people experience roadmap working with the COO, EA SPORTS Studios and the senior leadership of EA SPORTS Central Development teams including SPORTS Tech, DCS and Central Operations. This role reports to the VP, PE Business Partner and is a hybrid role, based out of Vancouver.

You will partner with, coach and advise the Leaders of these business units and their supporting leadership teams. You will be responsible for building on their leadership capability to support the strategy, develop their talent and achieve the business goals.

What The Sr. Manager Business Partner Does At EA

Talent Strategy:
You will help drive a comprehensive talent strategy with senior leaders to ensure successful execution of goals, aligned with Company Talent strategy.

Change Management:
You will coach executives and leaders to plan for change management, optimizing for the employee experience, and working through organizational design to create role clarity and orchestrate full circle review of change impact to ensure change acceptance.

Talent and Workforce Planning solutions:
You lead efforts to identify potential successors for important roles and leadership positions. Promote attraction, retention, and development of talent including meaningful assessment and implementation of compensation programs for your client groups.

Culture and Employee

Experience:

Help establish and foster EA culture, improving programs, diagnostics, and related training and coaching, to develop EAs overall capability to foster a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun and equitable workplace. Is accountable for all ER-related issues in assigned client group(s). Work with managers, employees and appropriate others to respond to all employee relations issues in ways that foster a cohesive and enjoyable workplace.

Performance and Rewards:
You will create insightful approaches to employee rewards; assess market data to guide compensation decisions, and be creative about ways outside of compensation to provide meaningful reward and recognition. You will oversee the successful implementation of the life cycle of the performance and compensation process across all assigned client group(s), this includes being knowledgeable of team budgets and able to use funds during annual cycle.

Navigate when to advocate out-of-guideline recommendations. Demonstrated ability, with compensation partner, to develop recommendations on executive compensation. Understand concepts of unvested equity and vesting timelines as it relates to compensation.

Organizational Effectiveness:
You will identify gaps hindering achievement of outcomes and ensure business is focused on solving issues. Guide increasingly complex plans to improve organization effectiveness. Work across Centers of Excellence (as applicable) to develop recommended solutions. Coach, train and foster management capability.

Workforce Analytics and Technology:
You will identify important metrics to assess and diagnose the health of the organization. Educate management on headcount planning and related metrics (e.g. span-of-control). Apply knowledge of HR metrics and use data from multiple tools (e.g. Team Health, Workday) to assess and influence / guide our decisions. Consult with management on workforce planning and headcount management for client group.

You will guide important EA-wide People programs within your assigned client group(s) in partnership with the worldwide People Experience team and the Centers of Excellence (Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, Employee Relations, HR Operations, and Learning, Engagement & Performance).

Experience…