LEARNING AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER

A.S.WATSON GÜZELLİKVE BAKIM ÜRÜN.TİC.A.Ş.

About Watsons

 Watsons Turkey is part of A.S Watson Group, one of the leading beauty and self-care chain stores in Turkey with more than 340 stores in over 75 cities. We work with might and in order to become the first choice of our customers in the scope of self-care with our more than 3000 personnel. Watsons stores win the recognition of customers from all ages with its locations in some avenues in addition to our country’s most modern shopping malls. 

 About A.S Watson

 A.S. Watson Group is one of the world's largest health, beauty & lifestyle retailer’s with over 15.000 retail stores, serving more than 57 million customers a week in 24 markets. The Group has the largest brand portfolios and geographical footprints in the retailing world, offering everything from health & beauty, food and electronics to perfume. It is also Asia's largest health & beauty retailer and Europe’s largest luxury perfumeries & cosmetics retailer. Proudly supported by a global family of 140.000 staff, the Group is also a member of the world renowned multinational conglomerate CK Hutchison Holdings, which operates in businesses- ports and related services, property and hotels, retail, infrastructure, energy and telecommunications in over 50 countries. 

LEARNING AND TALENT DEVELOPMENT MANAGER 

Learning and Talent Development Manager lead company’s efforts to attract, train, develop and keep the best employees. He/She focuses on designing and implementing programs for leadership development and talent development. He/She works closely with company Leadership Team and Human Resources Director & Human Resources Managers to determine and establish strategic training needs and create strategic solutions for improving key leadership competencies across the entire company. 

 JOB DESCRIPTION 

 • Design and lead key talent management initiatives and processes, including: talent review, assess potential, succession planning, talent analytics, talent pools, top talent/potential initiatives, talent development 

• Ensure high quality, consistent and innovative approaches for developing training and development strategies in a rapidly growing and changing organization. 

• Create training and development strategy and upgrade training&development processes and infrastructure within the framework of the determined strategy. 

• Lead and monitor the cultural change process within the scope of Training& Development and Talent Management strategies 

• Manage and monitor global initiatives (E-PDR, E-Talent Management etc.) effectively in collaboration with Group HR. 

• Establish structured training & development processes covering all employees within the company in order to become a learning organization 

• Ensure the continuous development of Watson’s Academy for the entire company. 

• Design tailor made training and development programs for the employees identified as Talent & High potential within the company and following up individual development plans 

• Design training and development programs within the framework of development areas obtained through performance evaluation and 360 degree feedback results 

• Determine, implement and monitor relevant action plans based on employee engagement survey results regularly 

• Ensure the appropriate tools, technology and learning methods are used for training and create and monitor KPI’s to measure the success of the training. 

• Develop and monitor training measurement strategy in order to produce objective and subjective insights on the business impact of training initiatives. 

• Develop onboarding processes for new employees in collaboration with HR Managers. 

 GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS 

• University degree in related field 

• 12+ years experience in learning &development and talent management 

• 8+ years experience in team management • Effective in getting the most of his/her working relationships with teams, stakeholders and peers 

• Lead change in the most effective way to benefit self, others and the organization 

• An agile leader, thinks strategically and develops plans for his/her function for the future 

• Effective in team management 

• Creative problem solver, naturally curious and innovative 

• Ability to apply sound learning principles, agile methods, learning technology and program management skills together in the design, development and maintenance of learning programs 

• Systems thinking; able to recognize patterns and trends in data, content and customer needs which will drive program design and delivery 

• Experience in working with learning support technology 

• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills 

• Strong project management and presentation skills 

• No military obligation for male candidates.