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Office Operations Manager @ Arlington Capital Partners
Arlington Capital Partners is seeking to hire its first Head of Talent who is well-versed in defining talent requirements, assessing, acquiring, organizing, retaining and developing talent in its portfolio companies. With a diverse portfolio of investments across aerospace & defense, government services & technology, healthcare and business services & software, ACP is looking to bring on an agile thinker, who can effectively consult across these unique sectors with differentiated talent challenges.
Primary Responsibilities
- Define and institutionalize talent best practices.
- Partner with and leverage the ACP team, the portfolio company executive teams and boards and the consulting partners to define and deliver the talent agenda.
- Grow ACP’s existing executive network infrastructure and ensure it creates value.
- Identify critical leadership roles as required to execute the value creation plan (VCP) and assemble a talent strategy that enables each portfolio to reach its full potential from a talent perspective.
- Partner with CEOs and CHROs to conduct networked and executive search recruiting to fill open senior executive and board positions.
- Ensure that there is a disciplined and personalized 100-day onboarding plan for each leadership hire with clear success metrics that are linked to value.
- Manage all executive search firm relationships and coordinate the executive searches to seamlessly support the portfolio companies and deal teams.
- Work with CHROs to develop and implement evaluation processes for executive teams.
- Manage and partner with deal teams to conduct annual board effectiveness self-assessments.
- Aid in execution of our standard compensation structures and work with deal and management teams to customize the programs to the portfolio company requirements.
- Ensure standards for reporting HR analytics and metrics and build out consistent dashboards.
- Design and lead annual CEO, CHRO and other functional leader workshops and support any additional annual gatherings and sharing on a regular basis.
- Assess portfolio companies’ organizational development needs including structure, staffing, systems and HR functions and processes.
- Assist CEOs and CHROs in sourcing consultant support in these areas of organizational development.
Qualifications & Experience
- 15 to 20+ years of experience in senior talent or HR business partner roles.
- Previous experience in a relevant industry (financial or professional services) where people are key assets. Critical to the role is experience in HR, talent/assessment, operations and/or general management.
- Diverse experience across one or more blue chip organizations, ideally with exposure to different industries and business models. Exposure to organizations well-regarded for HR and talent practices is highly preferred.
- Proven expertise connecting compensation structure, organizational design, leadership assessment and development to business and financial objectives. Ability to leverage data to measure, guide decision-making and improve performance.
- Talent leadership in the midst of change (merger, acquisition, divestiture, and/or integration processes)
- Act as a critical player during M&A activity, particularly in due diligence, evaluating talent and reviewing compensation and benefits plans.
- Creates a clear and coherent strategy that anticipates the future direction of the industry, competition and/or the broader environment, at least five years ahead.
- Provides new direction for the organization, leading to actionable changes across multiple operations or functions.
- Engages in scenario planning that incorporates new information or disruptive thinking to gain significant advantage or impact.
- Builds and leverages a network of relationships that are important to the organization and its stakeholders.
- Thoughtfully considers and adjusts the composition of the team to maximize its capability and effectiveness.
- Develops the whole team to maximize overall team effectiveness (e.g., team-building exercises).
- Acts as a talent magnet; attracts, retains and proactively represents the Arlington brand in the talent market.
- Naturally operates with a high work ethic and expects that from others.
- Hands-on leader in a flat, collaborative organization.
- Champions excellence and a continuous improvement mindset.
- Collaborative and low ego
About Arlington Capital Partners
With ~$9.0B in assets under management, ACP is a leading private investment firm with unrivaled expertise in government regulated industries that are critical to the U.S. and its allies. Based in the Washington, D.C. area, we partner with founders and management teams in the aerospace and defense, government services and technology, and healthcare sectors to build their companies into market leaders. Our companies provide mission-critical products and services that save lives, improve effectiveness, and reduce costs for federal, state, and local governments, commercial aerospace companies, as well as the healthcare industry. Throughout our 25-year history, our sector expertise, differentiated network, and collaborative approach have enabled us to deliver consistent, outsized risk-adjusted returns across economic and political cycles.
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- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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