Talent Partner, Southeast Asia and Australia & New Zealand

WHAT IMPACT YOU CAN CREATE AT CHANEL 

You will have a direct hand in championing and driving a forward-looking talent agenda, creating a robust internal pipeline for critical roles, and inspiring leaders to nurture talent with lasting impact. In close partnership with the Head of Talent Management, you will take ownership for elevating talent function capabilities, building influential networks, and embedding human-centred and data-informed decision-making in practice. 

SEAA Talent Strategy  

• Support the development and execution of a forward-looking talent agenda that blends internal and external talent levers, insights and business priorities. 

• Shape the organisation’s approach to executive recruitment through deep partnership with business leaders and HRBPs. Embed a talent culture across functions by influencing how leaders think about potential, performance, and mobility. 

 Talent Initiatives 

• Guide and support succession planning and leadership development in partnership with market and regional leadership, ensuring visibility of key roles and readiness of successors.

• Provide strategic insights and challenge to business leaders, leveraging data and relevant insights to shape talent decisions, address capability gaps, and unlock opportunities for both internal and external talent mobility

• Proactively cultivate and develop next-generation capabilities by identifying emerging skillsets and partnering with leaders to build targeted interventions that future-proof the organisation.

• Independently manage and drive strategic talent initiatives, ensuring high standards, effectiveness and alignment with Chanel’s leadership and cultural models

• Maintain a vigilant focus on external market trends, talent intelligence, and evolving industry dynamics, bringing an ‘outside-in’ perspective to inform Chanel’s talent strategies and ensure ongoing relevance and competitiveness. 

• Contribute to the performance management framework to ensure alignment with the overarching talent strategy and accelerate capability development.

• Coordinate performance review cycles with talent reviews and succession planning.

• Represent the region in Global performance management-related strategic initiatives.

Executive Recruitment 

• Carry out executive recruitment work for the SEAA region - manage core activities such as talent mapping, pipeline management and end-to-end executive recruitment (direct sourcing, screening, interviewing, negotiating offer and closing the search). 

• Attract top talents and enhance Chanel’s employer brand through providing exceptional candidate experience.     

• Foster effective partnerships and build trusted relationships with the People & Organization community, hiring managers, business leaders and functional leaders.  

• The opportunity to craft and implement talent management frameworks and programs that influence talent development, retention, and performance across multiple markets.

• Opportunity to connect across the business and solve people-centred problems; helping to align talent strategy with business goals; advising senior leaders on talent needs and succession planning.

• Collaborating with leaders and working cross-functionally with other P&O teams, business leaders, and regional teams.

• Facilitating input, buy-in, and best-practice sharing among stakeholders.

• The challenge of hiring exceptional leaders who will shape the organisation’s future.

• Navigating the complexity, urgency, confidentiality and other high demands of executive recruitment.

• Staying ahead of industry trends, leadership competencies, and market shifts.

WHAT YOU WILL BRING 

• At least 8 to 10 years’ experience of Talent Management, specialising in developing and implementing talent strategies for large organisations with diverse business priorities. 

• Constructive Challenger: Proactively questions existing processes and practices, advocating for improvements with tact and solution-oriented thinking. 

• Strategic Connector: Sees the bigger picture, identifies patterns, and creates connections that drive talent outcomes across the organisation. 

• Exceptional Communicator: Adjusts communication style to suit different stakeholders and ensures messages are understood. 

• Independent Operator: Works confidently and autonomously, taking ownership of responsibilities and making sound decisions without close supervision. 

WHAT CHANEL CAN OFFER YOU 

• A dynamic, creative, and inclusive environment where you can make a real impact on people and culture.  

• The chance to work on meaningful initiatives that celebrate individuality and empower employees. 

• The chance to learn from executives who value talent as a strategic asset.