Talent Management Business Partner, Emea

**Date**:Jun 11, 2025

**Location**: Hesperange, Luxembourg, LU, L-2240

**Company**:Gates Corporation

Are you inspired by challenging the status quo? Do you thrive in collaborative environments that drive results? If so, Gates could be for you.

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**What to Expect?**:
The Talent Management Business Partner plays a crucial role in aligning an organization's human capital with its strategic objectives. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to develop, implement, and oversee talent management strategies that attract, retain, develop, and engage employees across all levels of the organization. The Talent Management Business Partner serves as a trusted advisor and consultant to both HR leadership and business leaders, ensuring that talent initiatives contribute to overall business success.

**Essential Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Act as a trusted advisor to regional leadership teams, aligning talent strategies with business goals and regional priorities.
- Drive the deployment of global talent development programs, tailoring them to the regional context to maximize engagement and impact. Proactively recommend additional region-specific tools and initiatives.
- Lead regional succession planning efforts, identifying and developing high-potential talent and ensuring robust leadership pipelines.
- Champion the performance management process, providing guidance and support to ensure consistency, fairness, and effectiveness.
- Partner with HR and business leaders to assess organizational capabilities, identify gaps, and implement solutions to enhance team performance and agility.
- Support change initiatives by providing expertise in communication, training, and stakeholder engagement.
- Leverage talent analytics to inform decisions, track progress, and measure the effectiveness of talent initiatives.
- Work closely with global and regional HR colleagues to ensure alignment and integration of talent practices across the organization.

**Keys to Success**:

- Interprets internal or external business issues and recommends best practices to improve products, processes or services
- Solves complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions
- Works independently, with guidance in only the most complex situations
- Impacts the achievement of customer, operational, project or service objectives; work is guided by department objectives
- Communicates complex concepts; anticipates potential objections and influences others to adopt a different point of view

**Supervisory Responsibilities**:

- No supervisory responsibilities
- Requires specialized depth and/or breadth of expertise in own specialized area and general knowledge of related areas
- May lead functional teams or projects with moderate resource requirements, risk, and/or complexity
- Leads others to solve complex problems; uses analytical thinking, tools and judgement to identify innovative solutions

**Requirements and Preferred Skills**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
- 8-10 years of progressive experience in talent management, organizational development, or HR business partnering.
- Experience working with multi-country responsibilities and able to operate in a matrixed organization
- Strong understanding of talent development frameworks, leadership assessment tools, and performance management systems.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and influencing skills.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and navigate ambiguity in a fast-paced environment.
- Proficiency in HRIS and talent management systems; experience with data analytics tools is a plus.
- Multilingual capabilities depending on region.
- Certification in coaching, change management, or leadership development (e.g., ICF, Prosci, Korn Ferry, Hogan).
- Demonstrated success in driving talent initiatives across diverse cultural and business environments.

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Why Gates?

Founded in 1911 in Denver, Colorado, Gates is publicly traded on the NYSE. While we might operate in a vast amount of time zones we operate as 'One Gates' and have a common goal of pushing the boundaries of materials science. We invest in our people, bringing real-world experience that enables us to solve our customers' diverse challenges of today and anticipate those of tomorrow.

Work Environment

Gates is an Equal Opportunity and is committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for all job applicants and employees. Employment decisions are based upon job-related reasons regardless of race, sex, color, religion, age, disability, pregnancy, citizenship, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, or any other consid