Senior Manager - Diversity Business Partner: Digital & Tech

What you'll do

• Collaborate with Brand/Functional leadership team, HR and other key stakeholders in the strategic planning, design, implementation and monitoring of Gap Inc. and Brand specific Equality & Belonging initiatives, ensuring plans are aligned with our talent practices, development frameworks and organizational strategies and goals to support our 2025 commitments and beyond.
• Provide strategic and day-to-day operational leadership on equality and belonging programs and practices, ensuring a core and common approach across the Brand/Function.
• Connect Brand/Functional opportunities to our Employee, Customer and Community Belonging objectives, working in concert with the leader of these three Equality & Belonging verticals.
• Work closely with Brand/Functional partners to understand business strategies, assess current cultural competence and identify capability gaps and opportunities for improvement to enable a culture of inclusion, belonging, and allyship.
• Provide relevant data, analysis, and recommendations to guide decision-making related to execution of Brand/Functional strategic efforts.
• Advise, mentor/coach and guide all levels of leadership to build cultural competence and inclusive leadership skills to further unlock employee engagement capabilities; serve as an ambassador for employee network groups, helping to increase engagement and active participation of employees in Equality & Belonging initiatives.
• Build and exert influence to create positive change and proactively mitigate and resolve employee issues in partnership with HR, Employee Relations and Legal.

• 6 + years of experience in Diversity and Inclusion, HR, or People strategy
• 3+ years of experience in a client facing/consulting role
• Experience analyzing organizational needs and setting strategies and goals to make a positive impact
• Broad thinking and perspective of current inclusion and diversity trends and change management best practices
• Track record of coaching and developing leaders and advising action in sensitive or ambiguous situations, including employee relations, performance management, or organizational diagnostics
• Experience leveraging best-in-class project management and stakeholder engagement techniques to influence broad group of stakeholders and senior leaders – without direct authority
• Proven ability handling complex and confidential information with discretion, advising action in sensitive and ambiguous situations and establishing business partner role as a critical partner and trusted advisor