About the Role
This role leads a global transformation program to reimagine career development through a skills-based lens, designing and embedding frameworks for employee growth and agile talent pipelines. It focuses on career enablement, skills-based development, and internal mobility transformation, rather than traditional Talent Management.
Responsibilities
- Lead a global transformation programme that reimagines career development through a skills based lens.
- Design and embed frameworks that help employees clearly understand how they can grow.
- Enable the business to build more agile and future ready talent pipelines.
- Work closely with teams across Talent, Talent Acquisition, Workforce Planning, Reward and HR Technology.
- Review and enhance the Workday Career Hub experience.
- Create intuitive, engaging tools that make development opportunities more visible and accessible.
- Unlock internal mobility, strengthen succession pipelines and integrate career development into wider talent and leadership processes.
- Continuously refine the approach through data and insights, ensuring real adoption and meaningful outcomes.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading large scale talent or career management transformation programmes.
- Strong understanding of skills frameworks, workforce planning and internal mobility strategies.
- Workday Career Hub knowledge (or competitor platforms) with strong programme management and consultancy-style thinking.
- Ability to influence senior stakeholders and drive adoption across a matrix organisation.
- Experience using data, technology and insights to improve employee experience and outcomes.
Skills
- Skills frameworks
- Workforce planning
- Internal mobility strategies
- Programme management
- Consultancy-style thinking
- Data analysis
- Technology utilization
Location
- Global
Work Type
- Hybrid Working Model
Experience Level
- Lead
Benefits
- Generous annual bonus
- Pension Schemes
- Save As You Earn share options
- Car allowance
- Flexible Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Volunteering Hours
- Private Health and Dental plans
- Healthcare Cash Plans
- Income Protection
- Life Assurance
- Discounts on Gyms and fitness clubs
- Salary Sacrifice Bicycle and Car Schemes
- Employee discounts
About the Company
- Smith+Nephew is a global medical technology company that designs and manufactures technology to help people live without limits.
- We support healthcare professionals to return their patients to health and mobility.
- Our culture is built on Care, Collaboration and Courage.
- We foster a spirit of ownership and a can-do attitude.
Equal Opportunity
- Committed to Welcoming, Celebrating and Thriving on Inclusion and Belonging.
