Americas Talent

**About Umicore**

Reducing harmful vehicle emissions. Giving new life to used metals. Powering the cars of the future. As a global materials and technology group, we pioneer approaches to sustainability that continue to offer customers materials and solutions that are essential to everyday life. We aim to be a clear world leader in materials for clean mobility and recycling and have turned our sustainability approach into an even greater competitive advantage. To achieve this, however, we know we can’t stand still. We know we need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. It’s why we invest so much in research & development. It’s why we push ourselves to tackle increasingly complex challenges. It’s why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed. It’s why we are looking for talented individuals to shape tomorrow by leading the way today. In an environment like this, imagine what you could do?

**About HR**

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve - whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

**What you will be doing**

The Talent & Learning Manager contributes to Talent & learning management policies, design and active deployment throughout the organisation. In general, the role is responsible for:
**Development, delivery of processes, programs and policies**:

- Drive program for Talent Mgt / L&D goalsetting and the development of L&D curriculum
- Ensure the delivery of talent & learning activities, with a focus on Experience, Education & exposure: develop and design specific Umicore learning initiatives, supported by the creation of own tools & processes (i.e. Talent cycle, high potential programs, Leadership Series, Lunch ‘n Learn, blended solutions, intervision circles,
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- Co-design and continuously evolve the Talent & learning strategies in support of the business
- Support the development, coordination of Talent Management projects across Umicore. Responsible for activation in region.
- Support the development and continuous improvement of a learning catalogue. Responsible for activation in region.

**Collaborate & align**:

- Provide analytics & metrics to the Talent Mgt to drive continuous improvement
- Support the Talent & Learning Leads with the operationalization of Talent & learning programs and strategies in a consistent and effective way
- Act as an ‘internal consultant’ for specific Technical Academies.

**Execution**:

- Ensure roll-out and delivery of talent management, upskilling and reskilling programs; as well as allocated global programs’ design & regional deployment (eg core curriculum, leadership, culture, D&I)
- Support in the execution of Talent Management processes in the Americas region, eg Talent Management Cycle; internal mobility, etc.
- Support the building of and the set-up of academies and involved communities

**Subject Matter Expert**

**Who we are looking for**
- Strong expertise and experience should encompass all functional areas in scope of the Talent & Learning Mgt role
- Demonstrates strong HR acumen and can tie solutions to business outcomes, and overall employee performance
- Demonstrates a research-minded approach and solid general consulting skills
- Strong facilitation skills, strong presenter. Knowledge of instructional design.
- Knowledge of self-authoring tools, willing to develop skillset & build expertise on designing e-learning solutions where needed
- Knowledge of SF modules on talent & training management
- Ability to innovate new ways to continuously improve processes and tools in scope of the CoE
- Relentlessly explores opportunities, tackles problems, and discovers and implements new ways of working to create more data to guide accurate decision-making
- Operates with the complete story in mind and ability to understand and plan for interconnections with other CoE HR functional areas
- Ability to collaborate within multi-disciplinary teams
- Ability to effectively partner with business and HR stakeholders
- Strong data analysis skills to drive key insights
- Influences decisions to produce positive business outcomes
- Maintains a strong external network providing access to best practices and innovation
- Implement and measure a metrics-based approach to achieve Umicore’s desired KPIs
- Produces thought leadership content based on research
- Strong influencing skills and ability to work across multiple levels of the enterprise

**What we offer**

We aim to lead the way. Not just