Head of Talent & Culture

We have an exciting opening in our team as the current position holder is moving into a new role within Talent & Culture organization. We are now looking for a Head of Talent & Culture, Americas to join our team. 

Purpose and scope of the role: 

Responsible for strategic leadership and operational service delivery for Talent & Culture across Americas (USA, Canada, Mexico) to ensure consistent flow and engagement of talent meet KONE’s current and future business needs. 

The scope of Talent & Culture covers six core areas: Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Culture. 

Positioning of the role: 

• Business partner: Act as trusted advisor for leaders and leadership teams on all the core areas of Talent & Culture. Understand business needs and ensure these are reflected in strategic development and operational service delivery.  

• Strategic development: Responsible for co-developing the global Talent & Culture strategy and priorities. Ensure deployment end-to-end within own responsibility area. 

• Operational service delivery: Responsible for creating operating plan for Talent & Culture that aligns with global strategy and local business requirements. Responsible for ongoing service delivery for services in scope, e.g., Talent Acquisition. 

• Continuous improvement: Actively identifying opportunities to improve Talent & Culture’s service delivery so that services are timely, robust, efficient, and continuously evolving to meet the needs of our dynamic workforce. 

• Collaboration: Close collaboration with key stakeholders at global and local level to identify opportunities for improvements and alignment of development roadmaps. 

• This role is part of two leadership teams. These are: global Talent & Culture Leadership and People & Communications Americas Leadership Team. 

• This role reports directly to Senior Vice President, Talent & Culture and dotted-line to Senior Vice President, People & Communications, Americas. 

Scope of the role: 

• Talent Acquisition: End-to-end responsibility to lead strategic planning and the delivery of talent acquisition services. Oversees TA team in US, Canada, and Mexico. 

• Talent Management: Responsible for advisory and enablement of talent management processes covering talent identification and developmental assessments, succession planning, talent pools and rotations, talent development. 

• Employee Engagement: Responsible for advisory and enablement of employee engagement processes covering ann