To apply, please submit resume via our Career Site link: https://www.driscolls.com/about/Careers/Job?id=R0008546
About the Opportunity:
The Talent Partner at Driscoll’s is a senior, strategic role focused on enterprise talent development, leadership readiness, and succession strength across Driscoll’s of the Americas (DOTA). This role partners closely with DOTA business leaders, HR Business Advisors (HRBA), HR Business Partners (HRBPs), and Global Talent Centers of Expertise (CoEs) to design and enable a forward-looking, data-driven talent strategy that supports business performance, leadership continuity, and long-term organizational capability.
The DOTA business unit spans four countries: United States, Canada, Mexico, and Peru, with approximately 4,000 employees operating in a complex, multinational environment. This role is designed for talent practitioners with deep experience shaping talent systems in large, global or matrixed organizations, rather than those primarily focused on recruiting or broad HR administration.
The Talent Partner operates as both a thought partner and architect, translating business strategy into enterprise-level talent priorities, while ensuring development, succession, and mobility practices are scalable, culturally grounded, and aligned across geographies.
This position is based in Watsonville, California, with domestic and international travel up to ~30%.
Role Impact & Scope:
The Talent Partner leads the DOTA talent agenda, using internal and external insights to identify capability gaps, leadership risks, and development opportunities tied to mid- and long-term business strategy. The role contributes to an agile, high-performance culture by shaping how talent is identified, developed, reviewed, and moved across the organization—particularly at leadership and critical-role levels.
In addition, this position serves as an enterprise owner of a global talent initiative or framework within the Global Talent CoE, bringing deep subject-matter expertise and ensuring consistency, quality, and measurable impact across regions.
Responsibilities:
Enterprise Talent Strategy & Workforce Capability:
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Design and drive a multi-country talent development strategy aligned with DOTA and enterprise business priorities.
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Partner with HRBPs, HRBAs, and senior leaders to translate strategic objectives into capability, leadership, and succession priorities.
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Use qualitative and quantitative data to assess talent health, identify risks, and inform leadership decisions.
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Collaborate with Global CoEs and regional HR teams to reinforce a consistent leadership and performance culture across DOTA.
Leadership, Talent Reviews & Succession:
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Lead and evolve DOTA-wide talent and succession review processes, ensuring rigor, calibration, and actionable outcomes.
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Define and maintain critical role profiles and success criteria across functions and geographies.
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Strengthen leadership pipelines by partnering with leaders to assess readiness, potential, and development needs.
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Support enterprise succession planning for senior and business-critical roles.
Talent Development, Mobility & Engagement:
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Shape and enable career pathways and internal mobility, with a strong emphasis on leadership and cross-border development.
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Partner with Learning & Development, OD, and HRBPs to deploy targeted development solutions aligned to capability needs.
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Interpret and synthesize employee engagement and talent survey data to guide leadership action planning.
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Embed diversity, equity, and inclusion principles into talent identification, development, and succession practices.
Data, Insight & Executive Consultation:
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Integrate regional talent insights into a cohesive narrative connected to business strategy and outcomes.
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Serve as a trusted talent advisor to DOTA senior leaders, providing consultation on leadership health, readiness, and risk.
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Support executive-level talent discussions with high-quality analysis, scenarios, and recommendations.
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Contribute to the definition and execution of DOTA’s People and Leadership priorities.
Global Talent Program Ownership:
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Act as enterprise lead for a global talent process or framework within the Global Talent CoE (e.g., succession planning, competency models, assessment frameworks, performance or talent review architecture).
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Drive continuous improvement, adoption, and effectiveness of the program across regions and business units.
Core Capabilities:
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Deep expertise in enterprise talent management, leadership development, succession planning, and organizational capability building.
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Proven ability to design, implement, and scale talent frameworks in complex, multinational or matrixed organizations.
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Strong business acumen with the ability to translate strategy into people and leadership implications.
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Advanced stakeholder consulting, influencing, and facilitation skills with senior leaders.
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High comfort working with talent data, diagnostics, and insights to drive decisions.
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Executive presence with the ability to operate as a thought partner rather than a transactional HR resource.
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Strong program ownership, change leadership, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Requirements:
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6-10+ years of experience in Talent Management, Leadership Development, Organizational Effectiveness, or Enterprise HR Strategy roles (not primarily talent acquisition or HR generalist roles).
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Demonstrated experience working across multiple countries or regions.
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Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent experience in talent or organizational development.
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Fluent English required; Spanish strongly preferred due to partnership across Latin America.
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Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally (~30%).
Compensation & Benefits:
The following information is provided in good faith as a general description of the salary range and benefits for the position posted. The actual compensation offered to the successful candidate is dependent upon experience, skills, education, work location, internal pay equity, and other objective job-related factors.
Salary Range estimated for the Talent Partner, DOTA: $110,000 to $164,000 USD.
Driscoll’s is committed to a culture of care and offers an attractive benefits package that includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and disability coverage for positions working more than 30 hours per week. Other benefits include: 401(k) with employer match, profit-sharing participation, paid sick time, paid vacation, paid personal and family care leave, and a free Employee Assistance Program (EAP). More detailed information regarding the benefits package, will be shared during the application process.
About Driscoll's:
Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world. Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods - meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners.
Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.
To apply, please submit resume via our Career Site link: https://www.driscolls.com/about/Careers/Job?id=R0008546
About Driscoll's:
Driscoll's is the global market leader for fresh strawberries, blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. With more than 100 years of farming heritage and hundreds of independent growers around the world, Driscoll's is passionate about growing fresh, beautiful and delicious berries. Our values of humility, passion and trustworthiness have guided our mission to delight consumers around the world. Driscoll's exclusive patented berry varieties are developed through years of research using only natural breeding methods – meaning, no GMOs. From farm-to-table, we focus on delivering a high quality, premium berry experience with our many supply chain partners. Driscoll's is the trusted brand for Only the Finest Berries™.
