Head of Talent Management

Head of Talent Management - EMEA

**Head of Talent Management - EMEA**

**EMEA Flexible**

**This role will report into the **Director, Talent Management - Talent Activation**

The Head of Talent Management will partner with the EMEA leadership teams to provide Talent Management strategy and actionable plans in pursuit of achieving and exceeding business goals. Specifically, this role will be responsible for accelerating talent building at Kimberly Clark, by working closely with all levels of the organization to:

- Ensure flawless execution of Global Talent COE initiatives in the region / global function
- Set and implement the short mid-term learning, talent management, performance management, I&D initiatives that respond to regional / global functions specific needs in addition to the global strategic talent plan
- Co-create with other Talent Leads, in learning, career and leadership development, employee experience, and culture to ensure that K-C Talent, in a disciplined way, results into growth and performance for the business
- Promote simplification, alignment, and synergy across the matrix (regional, global functions) in order to deliver with speed and ensure a robust pipeline of capable and diverse talent
- Continuously engage and activate great interactions and experiences for talent to grow and development
- Contribute to shareholder value and customer experience through strategic investment in people

**What is it like to work at Kimberly-Clark?**

Huggies, Kleenex, Andrex, Scott, Kotex, Poise, Depend. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, 25% of people in the world use Kimberly-Clark products every day.

The identity of each and every one of our employees makes us who we are and makes our global company of over 40,000-plus employees stronger because of it. We are in the business of providing better care for a better world, for everyone, everywhere. At Kimberly-Clark treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organisation that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds. People like you. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark; you just need to join us

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Lead talent management, culture and organization strategies and projects activation across the region / global function to support the business and people strategy and priorities. This includes: Performance Management, Career Development, GM Accelerator, Talent Review, Succession Planning, Talent Slating, Learning/Development, I&D, Change Management/Org Design, Workforce Planning and implications for Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement and Leadership Development.
- Translate the global talent activation strategy into a Regional/Global Function talent activation plan and provide talent solutions across the region consistent with a 70-30 global-local emphasis
- Build and maintain close working relationships with the global and regional COEs, HR leaders, regional and local business leaders and regional talent leaders across the enterprise to understand key business objectives, priorities, and direction
- Effectively manage a team of Subregional Talent Leads/partners and provide partnership to the senior HR leaders and business executives
- Socialize annual Talent Activation Plan and roadmap with key internal stakeholders to ensure collective leadership input and alignment for executive leadership approval
- Review and analyze business unit data to identify trends with accountability for establishing and driving People Strategy Dashboard metrics and recommending solutions to improve metric results across business unit.

**Qualifications**:

- Experience in talent management, in a matrixed organization with multiple lines of business
- Effective team leadership and people management experience, and possess the ability to articulate and support the vision, and influence across teams over which that incumbent has no direct accountability
- Ability to collaborate, influence and build relationships with all levels within the organization
- Innovative and creative problem solver to explore new approaches to talent programs and metrics to measure of effectiveness of programs
- Experience managing a budget
- Strong project management and process management skills
- Superior verbal, written, presentation, influence, and facilitation skills
- Able to manage with ambiguity and autonomy.

**Total Benefits**

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and