Global Talent Management Senior Partner - Johannesburg at TransUnion

What You'll Bring:

Key responsibilities include:

Talent Practices:

• Provide professional expertise in leading the design, development and project management of global scalable talent practices - how associates best receive feedback on their work; how leaders identify and align on critical talent to retain; how best to capture development and retention plans for critical talent; how we track critical talent development plans; how associates are put forward for promotion; how leaders align and calibrate on performance for their teams and how this all ties into our pay for performance culture and reward strategies.   
• Offer guidance and advice to stakeholders regarding the Group's performance management framework and strategy, ensuring consistency and alignment throughout the organization.
• Collaborate with HR Information Solutions to design talent management processes that aligns to the associate journey (e.g., performance management, development planning, succession planning, workforce planning, and talent marketplace).
• Manage/coordinate the delivery of annual cycles, working closely with other Subject Matter Experts (Benefits, Compensation, Learning, Communication and HRBPs to ensure effective delivery.
• Analyze talent data to identify trends, gaps and opportunities for improvement.
• Creates a contemporary succession planning process that ensures both leaders and potential leaders can successfully transition to new roles while minimizing impact on the organization. 
• Keep a lens of fairness and ways to mitigate unconscious bias within the talent decisions – who are leaders putting forward for promotion? What criteria are they using to align on top talent? How are we ensuring we aren’t missing someone? 
• Design and facilitate training for Leaders and the HR Business Partner group to ensure they are ready to coach and facilitate the talent practices.
• Onboard new leaders and employees on performance and talent practices.

Career Development:

• Provide thought leadership and execution to expand our skills and talent marketplace strategy, helping associates and our business future-proof ourselves in this ever-changing world.
• Create in partnership with Talent Acquisition processes that enable internal talent pools allowing for easy succession decisions, access to global talent for projects, assignments/ roles.
• Lead architecting of career paths and skill mapping to roles to help employees see a clear career path.
• Connecting career paths to learning and development expereinces that enable on-the-job growth and development.
• Support the expansion of succession planning and leadership competency to build a deep and diverse pipeline of future leaders and ensure teams have the talent needed to achieve goals.
• Leverage aggregated talent and insights that drives deliberate action plans at the appropriate levels.

Impact You'll Make:

Position Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or related field or equivalent experience in HR/ Industrial Psychology
• The ideal candidate will have 8-10 years’ experience in learning and development, talent management, diversity, organizational development or related fields, with a successful track record in managing complex, multi-dimensional projects, and proven success at building credibility quickly at all levels of the organization, including senior executives
• Minimum 3 years of developing and implementing talent and learning practices and/or organization development solutions (from ideation through implementation and analysis)
• Demonstrated knowledge of leveraging talent systems to support talent practices. Workday experience is preferred. 
• Experience in large, matrixed and multinational global organizations is preferred.

Skills and Competencies:

• Strong project management skills - highly organized with strong attention to detail and manage multiple projects simultaneously Curious, interested and digitally versatile
• Stakeholder and relationship management in a complex organizational environment
• Well-developed consulting and advisory skills, including change leadership, needs analysis and learning impact analysis
• Ability to apply forward thinking adult learning principles and findings from ongoing research to inform solution design
• Technical knowledge of a range of talent management systems and platforms.
• Ability to think creatively and communicate ideas in an inspiring way
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills working both internally and externally with clients
• Brave, comfortable with ambiguity and open to driving change
• Confident and trusted client-facing partner
• Willing to test new methodologies and break away from status quo
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking capabilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Well-developed business acumen
• Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced dynamic environment
• Values creativity and incorporates diverse perspectives in decision making
• Strong academic qualifications and relevant professional qualifications preferred.
• Primary Location: Johannesburg (Hybrid)
• Job Function: Human Resources
• Schedule: Full-time
• Employee Status: Regular
• Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no direct supervisory responsibilities but as a senior individual contributor does serve as a coach and mentor for other positions in the department.