Vice President, Human Resources & Chief of Staff Job Listing at Prudential in Newark, NJ

Insurance, Finance

The  Asset Management organization, with  $650 billion in assets under management as of 6/30/2012 is one of the largest institutional asset managers in the U.S.   The Asset Management businesses include Prudential Investments, which represents our mutual fund research and wealth management solutions business, and the Prudential Investment Management businesses which include Public Fixed Income, Quantitative Management, Jennison Associates, Prudential Real Estate Investors, Prudential Mortgage Capital, and Prudential Capital Group) each focused on distinct asset types and strategies. 
 
The Vice President, Human Resources position in Asset Management Human Resources is a dual role including responsibility for managing the HR Shared Services support team and chief-of-staff support to the Head of Human Resources.
 
The Vice President, Human Resources will have overall leadership and managerial responsibility for the HR Shared Services (operations) team.  This team of 5 employees, including a manager who offers day-to-day support, provides tactical support to Asset Management HR Consultants and to Asset Management employees directly.  The Vice President is accountable for developing and driving the team's strategy, ensuring employee development, and meeting the needs of clients.   The team supports cyclical processes, such as the Employee Opinion Survey, Affirmative Action Plan preparation, and Year End Compensation processes and all employee life cycle processes, manages issue escalations, and provides a variety of standard as well as ad-hoc reporting and analysis.
 
As Chief-of-Staff, this role partners closely with the Head of HR in providing strategic and tactical support as needed across HR/Asset Management initiatives.  Initially, the incumbent will be responsible for working with the Head of HR to review and enhance HR metrics as well as measures and reporting related to the businesses' talent agenda.  The incumbent will be responsible for analyzing data and developing reports / presentations in support of a wide variety of information needs.  This will include conceptualization and preparation of Asset Management level presentations in areas such as Employee Opinion Survey results, progress in Diversity initiatives, Succession Planning, as well as for presentations to the Asset Management business heads and President in current HR areas of focus.  This individual will also support administrative efforts such as developing and managing the HR team's budget, development and maintenance of the team's business continuation strategies, and the development of employee communications strategies.  The Vice President, Human Resources will also help manage the response to requests for information and data from Corporate HR partners.
 

• Proven analytical skills
• Demonstrated strategic  thinking skills and ability to translate strategy into plans and actions
• Excellent project management skills
• Experience in a similar HR shared services/operations role preferred
• Solid technical skills (particularly in Excel and Powerpoint), knowledge of HRIS and the demonstrated ability to creatively leverage  technology to improve work processes
• Strong collaboration skills
• Demonstrated leadership skills
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Workforce planning and development skills
• Bachelor's degree required