Associate Manager Talent Development, EMEA

Company Description

CREATIVITY IS OUR SUPERPOWER. It’s our heritage and it’s also our future. Because we don’t just make toys. We create innovative products and experiences that inspire fans, entertain audiences and develop children through play. Mattel is at its best when every member of our team feels respected, included, and heard—when everyone can show up as themselves and do their best work every day. We value and share an infinite range of ideas and voices that evolve and broaden our perspectives with a reach that extends into all our brands, partners, and suppliers.

Job Description

The Team:

The Global Human Resources team are partners to all employees, delivering a meaningful, end to end employee experience. Our role is to attract, develop and engage employees in a purpose-centered work environment. Together, we challenge the status quo, encourage progressive thought and influence meaningful change across the business. We serve more than 30,000 employees in more than 40 countries. In all that we do, we strive to be a talent-led organization that cultivates equality, inclusion and empowerment for our employees and the communities we serve. We value meaningful work and creating personalized career opportunities as we build a world class HR team.

Every day, our Global Human Resources team role models the following competencies:

• Influential Advisor - Champions an idea and provides solutions that impact the business
• Builder of Organizational Capabilities - Creates processes and opportunities to support organizational priorities
• Driver of Transformation - Leads with a growth mindset, continuously pursuing ways to remove barriers to execution
• Strategic Mindset - Utilizes available resources such as data, insights, analysis and team perspectives to inform decision making
• Business Acumen - Applies knowledge of the industry, market trends and competitive landscape to guide business outcomes

The Opportunity: 

The Global Talent team provides world class programs geared towards developing, engaging, and retaining our talent. We design cohesive talent experiences as part of the end-to-end employee experience, including onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and career development, with diversity and inclusion foundational to all we do.

Reporting into the Talent Director, the Associate Manager Talent Development EMEA will be responsible to develop and execute right training offer to boost a culture of growth mindset where every employee can realize their full potential as well as developing leaders at all levels through unparalleled innovation, collaboration, and execution to become a talent-led organization.

You will partner closely with HR colleagues, stakeholders across the business and external partners to define, develop and implement professional learning, development, talent and career programs for Mattel EMEA.

In this role you will:

• Lead career development and performance oriented talent processes such as OTPs, Talent Performance Management cycle, CAP,  etc.
• Support the design of high-potential development programs aligned with performance and succession planning goals.
• Partner with local HRBPs and the global talent team to ensure alignment with processes and priorities including performance management.
• Research and analyze best practices and trends to advance performance management strategies within the broader People & Culture plan.
• Collaborate with the TA Lead to the design & implementation of the Early Career Program for EMEA
• Build and maintain relationships with local HRBPs to improve and streamline new-hire onboarding, leveraging existing and new HR technology.
• When needed, support the delivery and facilitation of engaging in-person and virtual workshops to ensure consistent learning experiences across EMEA such as ESCI 360 feedback, team workshops and team profiling tools such as DISC, MBTI, etc.
• Serve as a resource for Career Development, 360 feedback delivery and coaching.
• Research and analyze best practices and emerging trends to help advance our People and Culture Plan, L&D, Talent, and employee experience strategies.
• Measure and analyze the impact of Talent initiatives and recommend improvements to ensure continuous program effectiveness and drive decision making, tracking progress of our Talent Development & Engagement goals. 
• Support the development of learning projects from needs analysis to deployment, taking into consideration the complexities of creating training for a regional audience with common, but niched needs.
• Partner and ensure regional alignment with global talent team, local HR teams and with our Employee Resource Groups to shape programs and initiatives which develop and engage emplo