Performance Management Lead Job at General Motors (Warren)

Job Description

The Performance Management Lead is a critical enterprise role responsible for leading the design, execution, and continuous improvement of enterprise performance management practices. This role ensures performance management drives business results, reinforces a performance-driven and inclusive culture, and enables high-quality fair and standard talent decisions across a complex, global manufacturing and corporate workforce. Operating at the intersection of strategy, analytics, and leader enablement, this role partners closely with senior HR leaders, business executives, and People Analytics to ensure performance outcomes are credible, differentiated, and aligned with enterprise priorities such as quality, safety, innovation, and operational excellence.

Job Responsibility

Lead the enterprise performance management strategy, including philosophy, goal-setting standards, rating architecture, and feedback practices
Design and govern annual and continuous performance cycles (goal setting, mid-year reviews, year-end evaluations, and calibrations)
Establish enterprise governance, standards, and decision rights to ensure consistency across regions, plants, and corporate functions
Partner with business and HR leaders to reinforce a performance-driven culture aligned to enterprise values and operating principles
Ensure performance outcomes are fair, defensible, and analytically sound through ongoing distribution, trend, and bias analyses
Translate performance data into executive-level insights that inform talent reviews, succession planning, and rewards decisions
Integrate performance management with career development, succession planning, and total rewards programs
Lead leader enablement, change management, and communications to drive adoption and high-quality execution
Continuously benchmark external best practices and adapt the model to evolving workforce and business needs

Requirements

Deep expertise in enterprise performance management design, calibration practices, and rating methodologies
Strong understanding of talent management integration, including succession, development, and rewards
Advanced analytical capability, including performance distributions, trend analysis, and fairness diagnostics
Ability to influence senior leaders and operate effectively in a large, matrixed, global organization
Strong systems thinking and process design capability with a focus on scalability and simplicity
Change leadership and executive communication skills
Experience working with HRIS and performance management technologies in a global environment
8–12+ years of progressive experience in performance management, talent management, or HR strategy roles
Experience leading enterprise-wide performance management programs in large, complex organizations
Demonstrated success partnering with senior business and HR leaders
Bachelor’s degree required
Master’s degree in HR, Organizational Psychology, Business, or related field preferred
Experience in automotive, manufacturing, or industrial environments strongly preferred

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