Vp of Talent

**Connect with Quadient**

Quadient is a global leader in customer communication solutions. With over 100 years’ of experience and still going strong, we aim to be the driving force behind the world’s most meaningful customer experiences. Our success in delivering innovation and business growth is inspired by the connections our people create every day, with our clients and each other. It’s these connections that make Quadient such an exceptional place to grow your career - and help our future-focused team lead the way.

**Position**:VP of Talent
**Based in**: London, Paris or Munich
**Reporting to**: Chief People Officer

**Vision**
To be the driving force behind the world’s most meaningful customer experiences.
**Mission**
Together, we focus on delivering solutions that create relevant and personalized interactions.
**Values**
Empowerment, Passion, Inspiration, Community. “Be epic. Together”

**About Quadient**

Quadient delivers exceptional experiences with passion. We continually strive to innovate and reimage something new. That inspires and motivates people to exceed expectations. Our business success is underpinned by the trust that our clients invest in our products, and in our commitment to delivering the very best solutions. This trust is earned by great people, doing a great job. We call it: The Power of You.

**Position Summary**
Your mandate will be to spearhead all aspects of Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Diversity & Inclusion at Quadient, fostering a vibrant culture of talent aligned with our core values. You will provide strong leadership of our global Talent Function being accountable for a consistent and strategic approach to the hiring and development of diverse talent, aligned to our strategic workforce plan and Toal Rewards Policy. You will hold a global role and you’ll report to the Chief People and Transformation Officer.

**Key Accountabilities**
How you will make an impact:

- Build a strategic Talent Function : Developing and executing innovative recruitment, learning and development strategies to attract, develop and retain top talent.
- Partner with leaders across the business: Provide clear strategic direction on the global Talent strategy, supporting them in building high performing teams and infusing a culture of continuous learning and leadership development.
- Own and continually improve our recruitment strategy and hiring process: Making it more strategic, long-term, and proactive with a focus on identifying, sourcing and engaging diverse alent.
- Track and analyse recruitment marketing metrics: Measure the effectiveness of recruitment, performance and learning campaigns and make data-driven recommendations for continuous improvement
- DE&I: Lead our approach to building a diverse and inclusive organization, building and executing our D&I strategy and ensuring D&I is embedded in our HR practices and processes.
- Be a strategic advisor to the Executive Committee and senior leadership on executive, leadership, and manager development, with a strategic and big picture view into external trends and the implications on our people.
- Secure a strong talent and leadership pipeline: Build effective D&I programs, talent management, leadership development programs and execution of succession planning processes.
- Lead our approach to “development enablement” ensuring talent reviews and calibrations are supported with appropriate frameworks and processes to build a high performance culture, supporting Pay for Performance and ensuring identification and movement of talent in the pipeline.
- Lead our approach for career progression through development of career pathways, identifying the required skills and knowledge relative to job families and building learning pathways for associated skills development.
- Execute our global learning & development strategy ensuring that we are planning and building the skills required for the future. Provide equal access and opportunity to learn and develop careers by ensuring our learning hub is widely used and adopted across the business and that the most up to date and relevant learning resources (whether built internally or acquired from external resources) are of a high standard, rich in content and easily accessible.
- Employee Engagement: Lead the design, implementation and monitoring of our employee engagement survey and ensure action planning and execution to drive improvement in engagement and retention.
- Lead talent engagement and retention initiatives such as onboarding, learning campaigns etc assuring cohesive and consistent practices across the organization.
- Coach and support key leaders and talent in career development strategies and good practice.

**Knowledge, Skills & Experience**
What you’ll Bring:

- Extensive breadth and depth of experience spanning talent acquisition, talent management, and organizational development in a leadership role
- Previous experience gained in global organizations, showc