Director of Talent Development

foodpanda; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

foodpanda, part of Delivery Hero, seeks a Talent Development Director to own the talent agenda across 17 markets in APAC and Europe. You will design density, performance, engagement, and DE&I systems, partnering with regional leadership and global People & Culture teams to build a high-performance culture.

You will lead a lean team, drive multi-market talent initiatives, and collaborate with ERGs to foster psychological safety and cross-cultural collaboration across a complex matrix.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive People & Culture experience across multi-market environments.
• 3+ years in a senior talent development, organizational development, or talent management leadership role.
• Experience in high-growth tech or fast-paced consumer platforms.
• Strong ability to translate people metrics into strategic business cases.
• Experience leading large-scale change management or post-merger integration.
• Bachelor's degree in HR/Organizational Psychology/Business Administration; advanced certs preferred.

Responsibilities

• Formulate and drive a multi-market Talent Density Strategy with regional leadership.
• Evolve performance management, train managers on high-quality conversations, and manage engagement programs.
• Design scalable, digital-first learning and leadership development initiatives and manage LMS/budget.
• Embed regional DE&I roadmap into hiring, talent programs, and succession planning.
• Partner with regional/global teams as a strategic advisor and lead a lean Talent Development team.
• Support ERGs and foster psychological safety and cross-cultural collaboration across 17 markets.

Job description

foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index.

Job Description

We are looking for a Talent Development Director to build and own the talent agenda across three of our most iconic brands: foodpanda, foodora, and Yemeksepeti encompassing 17 markets in APAC and Europe. Over the next 12-18 months, you will design the talent density, performance, engagement and DE&I systems that turn our newly merged organization into a genuinely high-performance culture — acting as a core strategic partner to regional leadership and global People & Culture.

Your Mission

• Formulate and execute a multi-market Talent Density Strategy, partnering with C-suite executives and People Partners to close critical talent gaps and build pipelines for key roles.
• Lead the evolution of continuous performance management framework and its rollout across regions, training and coaching managers on high-quality performance conversations and managing underperformance. Architect and own the employee engagement strategy — pulse surveys, eNPS, action-planning — turning sentiment data into targeted retention interventions with regional leadership.
• Design and deploy scalable, digital-first learning and leadership development programs, and manage the L&D vendor relationships, LMS platform, and budget for maximum ROI.
• Define and embed the regional DE&I roadmap into hiring, talent programs, and succession pipelines, with metrics and dashboards that hold leadership accountable.
• Act as a core strategic partner to regional leadership and global People & Culture teams while leading a lean, distributed Talent Development team.
• Support Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and drive initiatives that build psychological safety and cross-cultural collaboration across a complex, 17-market matrix.

Your Heroic Skills

• 12+ years of progressive People & Culture experience, including 3+ years in a senior talent development, organizational development, or talent management leadership role within high-growth tech, Q-commerce, or fast-paced consumer platforms.
• A track record of success in regional or global roles across APAC and/or Europe, navigating complex matrix organizations across multiple geographies and cultures.
• Deep functional expertise across talent management, modern performance management, engagement methodologies, capability mapping, and DE&I practices.
• Strong data and business acumen — able to translate complex people metrics into strategy and present business cases to senior executives.
• Demonstrated experience leading large-scale change management, post-merger integration, or structural organizational shifts.
• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's or certifications like ICF, SHRM-SCP, or CIPD preferred).

Who We Are

As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 70 countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero.

We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact.