Manager, Talent Management

About the role

We are seeking a commercially minded, data savvy, high-velocity Manager of Talent Management to join our team in Houston. This is not a traditional, administrative HR role, but a highly strategic specialist position designed for an experienced HR Business Partner (HRBP) or Talent Specialist who understands how talent directly drives EBITDA and business execution.

Responsibilities

• Deploy Performance Frameworks: Own the design and execution of lean, impact-oriented global performance management processes, ensuring local and international business units align with our strategic PE value-creation metrics.
• Facilitate Calibration: Lead global talent reviews and robust calibration processes (leveraging 9-box methodology and organizational health indicators) to identify high-potential leaders and mitigate talent flight risks.
• Actionable Metrics: Leverage advanced talent analytics and diagnostic tools to deliver objective, stress-tested organizational insights to senior leadership.
• Secure the Leadership Pipeline: Partner across diverse global business units to build, update, and stress-test robust succession plans for critical executive and operational roles.
• Design Targeted Development: Architect and deliver intentional, high-impact capability programs for high-potential and mid-to-senior level managers, moving past superficial leadership theories toward concrete, commercial execution skills.
• Cross-Border Support: Act as the primary specialist resource for international regional leadership, ensuring consistent implementation of core talent philosophies while remaining sensitive to local operational nuances.
• Operational Velocity: Collaborate closely with localized HRBPs and business unit leaders to accelerate talent initiatives, keeping organizational capability aligned with aggressive portfolio transaction and growth timelines.
• Culture of Accountability: Support corporate change initiatives that establish a culture of strong individual accountability, performance transparency, and alignment with corporate strategic priorities.

Qualifications

• Experience Background: 5 to 10 years of progressive experience within Human Resources, demonstrating strong achievements as an HR Business Partner (HRBP) or as a Specialist inside Talent Management.
• Commercial Acumen: Strong business orientation, understanding how corporate strategies translate directly into talent demands and having a bias toward operational clarity.
• Systematic Execution: Exceptional organization and project management capability, prioritizing robust, straightforward, formulaic solutions over highly complex, bureaucratic HR theories.
• Influence & Credibility: Strong executive presence and critical thinking, comfortable challenging conventional HR assumptions and offering objective, data-backed talent advice to stakeholders.

Why This Role?

• Direct Succession Pipeline: This role is viewed as the explicit succession pipeline for the top talent specialist seat, with direct mentorship and development coaching from the Head of Talent Management.
• True Global Impact: Shape the global talent blueprint of a fast-evolving business, gaining deep organizational exposure across international markets.
• Value Creation Exposure: Gain elite, hands-on experience driving human capital strategy within a private equity portfolio environment, a highly sought-after executive capability.