Leadership Development & Team Effectiveness Manager

Nestlé; Vevey; Hybrid; CHF 82,000 - 119,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Paid holidays beyond legal minimum

Learning and development opportunities

Performance based bonus

Healthcare contribution

Pension contributions

Parental leave

Employee discounts

Job summary

Nestlé is seeking a Leadership Development & Team Effectiveness Manager to shape a global mentoring and coaching landscape. You will define practical frameworks, prioritize solutions, and enable activation across the organization, collaborating with Talent, HR Partners, markets, and leaders.

You will build capability, connect teams with internal or external support, and deliver meaningful results at scale. This is a chance to grow expertise and make a broad impact.

Qualifications

• Strong expertise in leadership development, mentoring, executive coaching, team coaching, or organizational development.
• Experience designing and facilitating team effectiveness interventions, ideally with senior leadership teams.
• Ability to translate insights into scalable solutions and influence stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead a clear, scalable mentoring framework to strengthen matching, development relationships and networks.
• Manage an integrated coaching portfolio across internal and external coaches, platforms and executives.
• Build coaching capability among leaders and HR to activate solutions at scale.
• Define practical team effectiveness frameworks, methods and tools for better collaboration and performance.
• Design and guide team interventions through transformations and transitions.

Skills

Leadership development

Mentoring

Executive coaching

Team coaching

Organizational development

Education

Professional coaching qualification

Job description

Shape Nestlé’s global approach to leadership coaching, mentoring and team effectiveness.

Location: Barcelona, Spain or Lisbon, Portugal

Work model: Hybrid / Full time

Contract type / duration: Permanent

Be a force for good and accelerate change that improves lives and the planet

As a Leadership Development & Team Effectiveness Manager at Nestlé, your mission is to bring clarity and consistency to our global mentoring, coaching and team effectiveness landscape by defining practical frameworks, prioritizing the right solutions and making them easy to activate across the organization. You’ll make a difference by collaborating closely with Talent, Leadership Development, Human Resources Business Partners, markets and business leaders to understand evolving needs, build internal capability and connect teams with the right internal or external support. This is your opportunity to take ownership, grow your expertise, and deliver meaningful results that make a difference at scale.

How you’ll make an impact as a Leadership Development & Team Effectiveness Manager

• Leading a clear, scalable mentoring framework that strengthens matching, development relationships, knowledge sharing and professional networks.
• Driving an integrated coaching portfolio across internal and external coaches, digital platforms, executive coaching and leadership transitions.
• Building mentoring and coaching capability among leaders and the HR community so they can confidently activate the right solutions.
• Defining practical team effectiveness frameworks, methods and tools that help teams improve collaboration and collective performance.
• Designing, facilitating and guiding team interventions that support leadership teams through transformation, change and critical transitions.
• Using business needs, insights, feedbacks and relevant measures to improve the Team Effectiveness offer and its impact.

What Will Make You Successful

• Bringing strong expertise in leadership development, mentoring, executive coaching, team coaching, or organizational development.
• Experience in designing and facilitating team effectiveness interventions, ideally with senior leadership teams.
• Strong understanding of team dynamics, organizational behaviour, high-performing team methods and recognized coaching practices and/or having a professional coaching qualification.
• Ability to translate research and market insight into simple, scalable solutions while influencing stakeholders and managing capability portfolios and external partners.
• Communicating fluently in English.
• Demonstrating courage, collaboration, speed and continuous learning, while translating ideas into measurable impact and creating shared value.

At Nestlé, we place people at the heart of everything we do

• Flexible working options, including hybrid work possibilities
• Paid holidays beyond legal requirements
• Learning and development opportunities to grow your career
• Performance based bonus
• Healthcare contribution and access to the Employee Assistance Program
• Strong employer contribution to your pension plan
• Generous parental leave and comprehensive family support solutions
• Attractive employee discounts across various products and services

What To Expect From Our Hiring Process

We are committed to an inclusive and respectful hiring experience and are happy to provide reasonable accommodations if needed. Our workplaces are fully accessible and supported by a strong safety culture, with modern installations and procedures to ensure a safe environment for everyone.

The hiring process typically includes an interview with Talent Acquisition, an interview with the hiring team, and a final discussion and offer. We review applications as they are received and close the role once a strong list of relevant candidates is identified, so we encourage you to apply early. All information is treated confidentially.

Stay vigilant: Nestlé will only contact candidates via official company email addresses and will never ask for payments or sensitive personal information at any stage of the hiring process.