Sr Manager, Performance Elevation

Your Career The People & Places Team has a clear vision: we’re here to help Palo Alto Networks become a high performance culture where everyone belongs and has the opportunity to do the best work of their career. We’re looking for an innovative talent professional with deep understanding of  and a passion for changing the way we approach performance. If you think it’s time to reimagine our approach to employee performance, that employees should be responsible to drive their engagement, performance, and development, and managers should be equipped to facilitate and personalize that journey for their teams, this just might be the position for you!  We are looking for an experienced business professional to lead our Performance Elevation journey, helping to create a culture of high performance across Palo Alto Networks. The ideal candidate will be comfortable working at all levels across the organization, familiar with all aspects of performance management, an expert at evolving the organization toward an always-on high performance approach, expertly driving us forward to progressive talent solutions, working collaboratively and effectively in a dynamic environment with compressed timelines. You should come with demonstrated experience leading complex talent projects with highly sensitive information and delivering simple, elegant solutions that surprise and delight customers. Building strong partnerships, creating an inclusive environment that a cross functional team can execute well in is a must. Exceptional communication and stakeholder  management skills, strong influencing skills, and the ability to juggle multiple projects at once.  Your Impact  Lead the ongoing performance evolution from our current bi-annual process to an always-on/ongoing cadence that supports high performance and more progressive talent solutions at each phase of the employee journey Partner with PBPs, People Tech, Compensation, HR Operations, Talent Development and leaders to evolve our culture and the behaviors of leaders and employees to move towards performance elevation - embedding sound practices throughout our programs and processesOversee the ongoing performance elevation process ensuring all leaders and employees are equipped and engaged in all aspects of performance elevation (goal setting, check-ins, feedback, ratings, calibration, promotions, development planning, etc.)Design performance calibration sessions to ensure talent decisions are made in a fair & consistent manner across the organization, and conduct fairness analysis during cycles and develop solutions to address inconsistencies systematicallyRedesign & enhance our goal-setting approach to ensure maximum engagement and  effectiveness for individuals, teams, and overall organizationPartner with People Tech/HRIS/IT to ensure technology solutions enable and enhance performance elevation within the rhythm of the business - with a focus on simplicity and scale