People Practices Manager

Job Description

People Practices Manager (Temp)

Electronic Arts
Orlando, FL, Austin, TX, or Vancouver, Canada

People Practices Manager - Temporary Full Time - Nine Month Term

At EA, we exist to Inspire the World to Play. We create amazing experiences for our players everywhere and we consider our players' experiences first in everything we do. Creating transformational experiences requires constant innovation and passionate people. We are developing extraordinary new game experiences by bringing together great people that combine creativity, technology, and expertise to deliver new ways to play. EA is driving the next revolution in games. Connect your future to ours. Inspire. Dream. Play.
Our People Practice Partners are passionate about delivering simple and awesome people experiences while creating programs and support in meaningful and efficient ways.

This temporary position will last nine months. It will cover existing client groups and flex into additional work within the People Practices organization.

What the People Practices Manager does at EA:

You'll connect with employees and coach people managers. You'll support team effectiveness and engagement projects while being a cultural manager for EA. You'll collaborate, manage projects, lead with data, facilitate talent and reward discussions, and communicate change.
• Program Delivery: Locally delivers core PE programs within defined timelines and acts as point of escalation for local managers with questions. Responsibilities may include transactional process required for the delivery of core programs and inputting data into people management platforms;
• Cultural Steward: Works with managers, employees and COEs to develop overall capability to foster a healthy, cohesive, collaborative, fun and fair workplace;
• Coaching: Partners with managers to provide candid, unbiased coaching and counsel to enhance manager effectiveness and improve individual and team capabilities to meet our business needs;
• Talent Readiness: Delivers global talent programs including talent strategy, talent planning, performance management, in partnership with respective COE partners, HR business partners, and local leaders to grow key talent. Ensure senior HR Leadership is aware of site needs and work in collaboration to deploy needed strategies or resources;
• Insights & Analytics: Leverages HR technology, business intelligence and local market information, to provide data-driven insights that enable sound business outcomes. Educate management on workforce analysis, headcount planning and related HR metrics to assess and influence and drive decisions;
• Business Acumen: Understand client and market business models/cycles, priorities and cultural nuances as an input into operational execution; understand both the business internally and also the external landscape.
• Change Management: Partners with site leadership and global COE partners to assess change readiness for People initiatives, provides localization input, and collaborates to arrive at solutions that increase adoption.

The next great People Practices Manager at EA also needs to have the following:
• Bachelor's or equivalent degree in a relevant field combined with seven years progressive experience as an HR business partner/generalist;
• Experience with their craft - substantial experience working with managers as an advisor regarding team performance management, prior employee relations experience, and the ability to quickly integrate into a complex business;
• Analytical mindset with experience using data and data-driven insights to support the business;
• Demonstrated local knowledge of HR requirements, HR best practices, HR administration, employment laws, and employment customs and the ability to translate that knowledge into scalable solutions;
• Change management skills
• Prior experience working within creative environments and supporting creative teams.

BC COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

The base salary ranges listed below are for the defined geographic market pay zones in these locations. If you reside outside of these locations, a recruiter will advise on the base salary range and benefits for your specific location.

EA has listed the base salary ranges it in good faith expects to pay applicants for this role in the locations listed, as of the time of this posting. Salary offered will be determined based on numerous relevant business and candidate factors including, for example, education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, geographic location, and business or organizational needs.

BASE SALARY RANGES
• British Columbia (depending on location e.g. Vancouver vs. Victoria):

º $107,600 - $147,100 CAN Annually

Base salary is just one part of the overall compensation at EA. We also offer a package of benefits including vacation (3 weeks per year to start), 10 days per year of sick time, and extended health/dental/vision coverage and basic life insurance.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-d8jx99-18-118-164-246-42 in your application.