Senior Manager Talent Management - Succession temp until April 30, 2025 in Herzogenaurach bei Adidas

Senior Manager Talent Management - Succession (m/f/d)temp until April 30, 2025 in Herzogenaurach bei Adidas

Adidas

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

The Senior Manager Talent Management- Succession will oversee and enhance the approach at adidas to identifying, developing, and promoting internal talent to ensure a robust leadership pipeline. This role involves collaborating with HR and other stakeholders to design and implement effective succession strategies, tools, and processes. The Senior Manager Talent Management- Succession is responsible for ensuring a data-driven approach, monitoring key performance indicators, and managing the composition of leadership groups. Additionally, they play a crucial role in aligning succession management with broader talent practices, such as development programs and executive hiring.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the design and improvement of the Global Succession Management approach, strategy, processes, framework and tools
Ensure the sound execution of succession activities in all markets and functions through close collaboration with stakeholders, especially HR Business Partners and Talent Partners
Deliver communication documents and presentations to inform and guide key stakeholders in executing the succession approach whilst thinking with the mind of our end customers, our employees and line managers at adidas
Act as a partner to market and function representatives to seek out and implement improvement suggestions into the global succession approach
Drive a data-driven approach for succession and talent management into the organization by ensuring high quality data, analyzing it and presenting it back to key decision makers
Track performance against core HR KPIs like succession realization and leadership bench strength
Lead Succession Project Management activities and represent the succession team during projects connected to other Talent teams.
Oversee the composition of our Leadership Groups CLG/ELG, by managing the group data and nomination process for new members
By gaining insights from the succession process, support the design of Leadership Development programs (e.g., HIPO)
Ensure a close interconnection of succession management with other talent practices such as potential identification (TLU), development and Executive hiring
Establish the concept of Succession Development with HR Busines Partners and Line Managers to ensure that successors receive targeted developmental actions
Take leadership responsibility for managing and mentoring interns/dual students/trainees in the Succession team
Contribute to the effectiveness of the broader Leadership Development team by identifying deficiencies in current practices and offering solutions.

Authorities:

Limited representational authority (i. A.)
Handlungsvollmacht (i. V.)

Key Relationships:

Talent Partners
HR Business Partners
Talent Leadership Team
HR Strategy
Executive and Senior Business Leaders
HR SLT members
Other HR Talent functions: Performance Development, Talent Acquisition

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Ability to think strategically to partner with HR and business leaders.
Customer focus, understanding of HR, and/or business processes
Ideally experience in designing and/or executing talent management processes (succession, performance development, potential identification/TLU)
Project management experience of managing and/or coordinating global projects, ensuring the delivery against milestones and project plans across functions and markets
Strong interest in and ideally experience with data management & visualization
Proactive and effective communication
Natural collaborator
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present and sell concepts to senior stakeholders.
Fluent English, spoken and written
Familiarity with German/European Works council is a plus
Highly competent with working with MS-Office skills, in particular PowerPoint and Excel – with a focus on compelling presentations, project management and data reporting/visualization

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

University degree or equivalent in the field of Business Administration, HR, Psychology or related.
Minimum of 8 years progressive work experience in the field of HR, Leadership Development, Consultancy OR Business Management, in an international organization.
Qualifications in project management, process excellence or data analytics is an advantage

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