Development & Culture Manager

Join the world's largest HVAC company, named by Forbes as one of America's Best-In-State Employers 2025!

The Development & Culture Manager plays a critical role in shaping and advancing DAA’s people-centered culture by designing and executing enterprise-wide employee listening and recognition strategies. This role serves as a subject-matter expert in employee engagement, feedback systems, and culture-building practices, leveraging data-driven insights to inform decision-making and enhance the employee experience. Under limited supervision, you will lead end-to-end execution of engagement and pulse surveys, evolve recognition programs, and partner across HR and business functions to drive meaningful culture initiatives and events. This role blends strategy, analytics, and execution to ensure scalable, impactful, and measurable outcomes. 

Location: Plymouth, MN - Hybrid  

Your Responsibilities: 

• Using an Employee Feedback Strategy roadmap, lead the end-to-end execution of the annual engagement survey and ongoing pulse surveys.  

• Design, implement, and maintain other “moments that matter” surveys such as onboarding, stay interviews, exit interviews, etc. 

• Contribute to and evolve DAA’s enterprise recognition strategy, incorporating best practices and benchmarking. 

• Design and deploy recognition programs, resources, and tools that reinforce desired behaviors and company values, partnering with HR Business Partners, Communications and leadership to increase adoption, participation, and sharing of success stories to build awareness and engagement of recognition initiatives. 

• Leverage data analytics to identify trends and effectiveness, track and report on key metrics, and translate complex spreadsheets into compelling narratives and stakeholder-ready insights.  

• Manage large-scale projects with multiple stakeholders and firm deadlines. 

• Build excitement and engagement around company initiatives through communication, training and stakeholder alignment.  

• Partner with Sr. Director, Development & Culture and other stakeholders to plan and execute company-wide events/culture initiatives to align with people-centered management principles (United Way Campaign, large panels and meetings, Daikin Days, etc.) 

• Develop and deploy processes, resources, and tools for the organization and the Development & Culture team to support awareness, efficiency, and scalability (Examples could include SharePoint site creation, how-to resources, nomination selection processes, etc.). 

Your Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience  

• Superior verbal and written communication skills 

• Strong facilitation and presentation skills 

• Ability to execute organization-wide initiatives 

• Strong organization, problem-solving, and project management skills 

• Ability to analyze data and turn it into insights and recommendations 

• Strong MS Office skills for development of processes, presentations, online resources 

• Superior collaboration ability to partner with key stakeholders (HR business partners, leaders, HR Plant Operations, etc.) 

• 10% travel required 

Preferred Qualifications: 

• Professional in Human Resources (PHR), SHRM-CP, or SHRM-SCP 

• Masters degree 

• Strong proficiency in Workday specifically regarding organizational structures and worker data. 

• Proficient in SharePoint, PowerBI 

Your Benefits: 

• Daikin Applied offers the following benefits for this position, subject to applicable eligibility requirements:  

• Multiple medical insurance plan options + dental and vision insurance   

• 401K retirement plan with employer match 

• Paid time off and company-paid holidays 

• Paid sick time in accordance with the federal, state and local law  

• Tuition Reimbursement after 6 months of continuous service  

Work visa sponsorship is not available for this position 

The typical annual base salary for this position ranges from $90,000-$153,300 in Minnesota. The range displayed represents the pay range for all positions in the job grade in which this position falls. Individual base pay will depend on a wide range of factors, including your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.