Senior Manager, PE Business Partner - EA SPORTS - 211200 - Electronic Arts

General Information

Locations: Orlando, Florida, United States of America

Role ID

211200

Worker Type

Regular Employee

Studio/Department

People Experience & Workplaces

Work Model

Hybrid

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.

Senior Manager, PE Business Partner - EA SPORTS

Electronic Arts

Orlando, FL

Most companies call it HR. At Electronic Arts we made the deliberate decision to brand our organization People Experience (PE). It is not just a play on words, PE is a team of cultural stewards who carefully create programs and talent strategies that directly impacts our teams' experience and enables our People to achieve the most meaningful work of their careers.

The Opportunity Ahead:

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 Senior Director, BP for American Football and the senior leadership of the American Football business. This role would be the main business partner for teams within American Football while driving talent initiatives across American Football in alignment with the Senior Director, BP. This role reports to the VP, PE Business Partner and is a hybrid role, based out of Orlando FL.

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 Requirements:

Bachelor or Masters Degree in a relevant field plus 3 or more years of progressive success as a senior strategic HR business partner/manager. Implemented large-scale HR programs across a department.
Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development, change leadership, and overall talent management.
A business leader, who is equally a builder of PE solutions based on PE best practices, as well as, an astute business member who employs solutions that affect business performances
Knowledge leader, with demonstrated mastery in organizational development, change leadership, and overall talent management.
A business leader, who is equally a builder of HR solutions based on HR best practices, as well as an astute business member who employs solutions that affect performance.
Excellent change management skills - systemic thinker, able to organize work into plans, and achieve commitments.
Can balance compassion and toughness in coaching others.
Experience navigating across the HR organization - with peers, upwards, and with center of expertise partners.
Experience with local employment law, coupled with the ability to gain a high-level understanding of territorial employment customs and practices working with EA's worldwide HR team.
Have experience with creating healthy organizations, driving transformation and helping culture be a competitive advantage.

About Electronic Arts

We’re proud to have an extensive portfolio of games and experiences, locations around the world, and opportunities across EA. We value adaptability, resilience, creativity, and curiosity. From leadership that brings out your potential, to creating space for learning and experimenting, we empower you to do great work and pursue opportunities for growth.

We adopt a holistic approach to our benefits programs, emphasizing physical, emotional, financial, career, and community wellness to support a balanced life. Our packages are tailored to meet local needs and may include healthcare coverage, mental well-being support, retirement savings, paid time off, family leaves, complimentary games, and more. We nurture environments where our teams can always bring their best to what they do.

Electronic Arts is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, religion, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, marital status, family status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We will also consider employment qualified applicants with criminal records in accordance with applicable law. EA also makes workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.