Talent Manager (TM0126)

Job Summary

• The Talent Manager is responsible for designing and delivering integrated talent strategies that support performance excellence, career development, leadership readiness, and organizational effectiveness.
• This role leads performance management, learning and development, recruitment, succession planning, and organizational development initiatives to ensure a high-performing and future-ready workforce aligned with business and operational objectives.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor and promote the organization’s culture to ensure it reflects the values and ethos.
• Design, implement, and continuously improve the company’s performance management framework.
• Forecast and manage the HR annual budget, encompassing HR services, employee recognition, and development initiatives.
• Support managers in providing ongoing feedback, coaching, and performance improvement plans.
• Partner with leaders to ensure fair, consistent, and effective performance evaluations
• Use performance data to inform development, rewards, succession, and workforce decisions.
• Oversee the training strategy, identifying and implementing a range of learning opportunities, including in-house, virtual, and classroom training, as well as a comprehensive onboarding process for new hires.
• Evaluate talent using the 9-box grid framework, ensuring competencies align with defined job roles and organizational needs.
• Develop career frameworks, competency models, and progression pathways
• Facilitate talent reviews, monitor individual development plans aligned with performance outcomes and partner with leaders and employees on career planning and internal mobility.
• Lead strategic recruitment and workforce planning aligned with business needs
• Support employer branding and candidate experience initiatives
• Manage relationships with external recruiters, training providers, and institutions
• Develop and maintain succession plans for leadership and critical roles
• Assess readiness and bench strength using performance and potential data
• Align succession plans with development and learning strategies
• Support organizational design, role clarity, and structural effectiveness
• Lead or support change management initiatives related to growth or transformation
• Drive culture, engagement, and capability-building initiatives
• Leverage engagement and performance data to inform OD interventions
• Ensure alignment with company policies, labour regulations, and industry standards
• Manage or support talent systems (performance, learning, and talent management platforms)
• Track and report key talent metrics (performance distribution, turnover, internal mobility, readiness)
• Continuously improve talent processes based on insights and business feedback.

Self-Development

• Continuously and actively engage in learning and development activities to improve competence in functional areas.
• Build strong interpersonal skills for effective relationships with stakeholders at all levels.
• Capacity to work in a fast-paced environment and manage multiple priorities.

Qualifications / Experience Required

• Bachelor’s Degree in human resources, Organizational Development, Business, or related field
• Minimum of 10years HR experience. 6+ years in talent management, performance management, Learning & Development, or Organizational Design roles
• Master’s degree in related field
• Membership of a related professional body e.g. CIPM, PHRI, SHRM etc
• Experience supporting technical or operational workforces(energy, industrial, or services preferred industries)
• Strong consulting, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.

Functional / Technical Requirements:

• Performance management framework design and rollout experience
• Succession planning and high-potential program expertise
• Change management capability
• Data-driven talent and performance decision-making
• Experience with HRIS, LMS, and talent management systems 

Behavioural Requirements:

• Good communication skills
• Helpful and personable attitude with evident desire to assist all employees to perform effectively
• Organized and efficient; able to prioritize work with minimal or no supervision
• Ability to multitask and manage conflicting deadlines and tight schedules
• Must exhibit high level of personal and professional integrity
• Good Interpersonal Skills
• Maturity, tact and including the ability to relate with different categories of people
• Flexibility and willingness to work beyond strict job requirements
• An enterprising attitude that is quick to search out alternative solutions to needs or problems.

FULL TIME