Senior Manager, Talent Development - Kemira Oyj

At Kemira, we use our chemistry to improve your everyday. It means making your packaging lighter and stronger, your paper towels softer, and your print colors brighter. We make your drinking water safe, your wastewater clean, and by adding our chemistry, you get more out of energy resources. By adding our expertise, your everyday business runs smoother and more efficiently. Through our global network of dedicated experts, production facilities and R&D centers, we innovate and create solutions for a profitable, sustainable future. Our job is to add value while adding peace of mind. We call it adding to your everyday. Read more about Kemira here. 

We are now looking for a brave and development-oriented Senior Manager, Talent Development to join Kemira’s Global Talent Development team. 

In this role, you will manage and develop global talent management processes and concepts, including talent identification, development and succession planning. You will enhance Kemira’s recruitment process in its entirety, from the first point of contact up to successful onboarding. You will manage the people engagement surveys and transform the analytics into action. In order to ensure the constant learning and development of Kemira’s people, you will strengthen the culture of continuous feedback and listening. You will cooperate with colleagues across the HR organization and take part in development of the key strategic HR focus areas, such as leadership framework renewal, wellbeing, people analytics and digitalization. In addition, you will act as single point of contact to the US region’s HR organization in the full range of Talent Development related topics. You will report to the VP, Talent Development. 

The Human Resources team at Kemira enables Kemira’s strategy and business objectives through developing the organization and workplace by further developing the digitalization of people processes, driving leadership and talent development, designing competitive rewarding models and by providing efficient HR services to the business. 

If you are looking for your next step in talent management in a global, diverse company, and enjoy creating new concepts to enable business strategy and having fun while doing so, keep reading!  

What we offer:  

• Opportunity to join the future focused global HR team that continuously develops people processes and concepts, working and succeeding together to achieve highly effective outcomes  
• Possibility to design talent development related models and concepts with a global reach in order to drive employee experience and engagement across borders 
• A chance to work in a company which truly invests in modern and top-of-the-line people processes 
• Meaningful work with impact on the future; the essence of Kemira`s business is making people’s lives better – with chemistry and curiosity 
• Life at Kemira, which is all about world-class advancements, solving the challenges of tomorrow in an inspiring setting, and empowering people to reach their full potential  

What we are looking for:  

• At least five years’ experience in and passion for talent and leadership development and recruitment in a global organization  
• Strong project management skills (ideally using design thinking and agile practices) and ability to lead change 
• Experience in digital HR tools and advanced analytical skills 
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to influence and navigate in a global matrix organization 
• Strong communication skills in English (Finnish skills are an advantage) 
• Ideally MSc in Behavioral science / Human Resources or a related academic field of study 

Location: Preferably Helsinki, Energiakatu 4 (HQ) but other Kemira’s key locations are possible as well. 

Got interested? 

Please send your cover letter and CV via our recruitment system as soon as possible, 16th February at the latest. For more information please contact Jonas Weckström (+358 50 5723 938, jonas.weckstrom@wisegroup.se). 

All applications and contacts will be treated confidentially.