Talent Management - Senior Manager

Re:work; Leinster; On-site; EUR 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Performance-related bonus

Pension contribution

Job summary

Re:work is building a new talent function in Ireland to own the full talent lifecycle, reporting to the HR Director. The role is about shaping the agenda, driving strategy, and delivering end-to-end development across leadership and early careers.

The successful candidate will bring energy, ideas and momentum to implement a practical, data-led talent framework that supports the company’s growth and multi-site environment.

Qualifications

• 10+ years' experience across the talent lifecycle.
• Proven track record delivering talent, learning and development initiatives.
• Strategic and delivery capability in large multi-site organisations.
• Hands-on, data-driven approach with practical impact.
• Strong data and analytics to guide talent decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build a talent strategy framework for the business from scratch.
• Design and roll out succession planning and talent review processes.
• Develop career pathing frameworks and progression routes.
• Establish a talent pipeline for key roles and assess readiness.
• Identify current and future skills gaps and build closure strategies.
• Bring a data-driven, evidence-led approach to talent decisions.
• Own leadership and management development programmes end-to-end.
• Design early career programmes as part of the wider talent pipeline.
• Set delivery requirements and priorities with internal/external partners.

Skills

Talent strategy

Succession planning

Talent review

Career pathing

Talent pipeline

Data analytics

Leadership development

Early career development

Delivery management

Tools

Data analysis tools

Job description

About the opportunity

This is a brand new position within the People function of a growing business, created as the business works towards a long-term growth strategy backed by significant investment. The role reports to the HR Director and takes ownership of the full talent remit - strategy, process and delivery for the organisation. This role has genuine scope to build the agenda from the ground up. The roleReporting to the HR Director, this role owns the talent agenda for the business end-to-end, acting as the senior talent voice to the senior leadership team and their respective teams. The successful candidate will be expected to bring energy, ideas and momentum to the role - shaping the agenda proactively rather than simply executing instructions. It's a broad remit spanning strategy, framework design and delivery oversight across the full talent lifecycle.

What you'll be doing

• Build a talent strategy framework for the business from scratch, translating the wider group's growth plans into a practical agenda
• Design and roll out succession planning and talent review processes
• Develop career pathing frameworks, mapping job families and progression routes within them
• Establish a talent pipeline for key roles, assessing successor readiness and development needs
• Identify current and future skills gaps and build strategies to close them
• Bring a data-driven, evidence-led approach to talent decisions
• Own leadership and management development programmes end-to-end, including several already at concept stage that need content built out and rolled out
• Design early career programmes as part of the wider talent pipeline
• Set delivery requirements and priorities, drawing on internal learning and development resource or external providers as needed

What we're looking for

• 10+ years' experience, including full ownership of the entire talent lifecycle
• A proven track record of delivering talent, learning and development initiatives, ideally within a large, multi-site organisation with established best-practice
• Equally comfortable operating at a strategic level and getting into the detail of delivery oversight - this role needs full breadth, not a narrow specialism
• A hands-on approach, comfortable rolling up your sleeves rather than operating at a purely strategic level
• Strong data and analytics skills, with the ability to bring evidence and rigour to talent decisions
• A proactive, self-starting approach - someone who brings ideas and direction

What's on offer

• Salary: c. €80,000–€100,000 DOE
• Performance-related bonus
• Pension contribution