Global Senior Talent Manager

Dyson Institute; Singapore; On-site; SGD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Dyson Institute in Singapore seeks an experienced Senior Talent Manager to design and deliver talent initiatives across leadership development, succession planning, talent reviews, and performance management. You will partner with HRBPs and senior leaders to accelerate leadership capability and sustain a high-performance culture globally.

You will manage enterprise talent programmes, build profiles, and generate insights from analytics to shape investment in leadership across Dyson's global

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Talent Management, Leadership Development, Organisational Development, Learning & Development, or related disciplines.
• Experience managing succession planning and talent review processes in a global organisation.
• Strong understanding of performance management methodologies and talent assessment practices.
• Demonstrated experience delivering leadership development programmes.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
• Data-driven with the ability to translate insights into action.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead succession planning processes with HR and business leaders.
• Lead talent review activities across functions and regions.
• Design and deliver leadership development initiatives.
• Support the design and execution of performance management processes.
• Lead enterprise talent programmes including high-potential development, mentoring, coaching, and leadership acceleration initiatives.
• Analyze talent data and generate insights for governance and investment.

Skills

Talent management

Leadership development

Succession planning

Talent reviews

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Education

Coaching qualification or certification

Job description

Senior Talent Manager Singapore

About Us

Dyson is a global technology company solving the problems others choose to ignore. Our people are at the heart of our success and we are committed to building the leadership capability, talent pipelines, and performance culture needed to deliver our future ambitions. As we continue to grow globally, we are looking for an experienced Senior Talent Manager to help drive our talent agenda, strengthen succession pipelines, enhance leadership capability, and enable a high-performance culture across the organisation.

About the Role

The Senior Talent Manager will play a critical role in designing and delivering talent initiatives across leadership development, succession planning, talent reviews, high-potential talent programmes, and performance management. Working closely with HR Business Partners and senior business leaders, this role will help identify, develop, and accelerate talent across Dyson's global organisation, ensuring we have the leadership strength and capability required for both current and future business needs. This role requires a combination of strategic thinking, programme leadership, data-driven decision making, and strong stakeholder management.

Accountabilities

Succession Planning

• Partner with HR and business leaders to deliver the annual succession planning process.
• Identify succession risks and support the development of mitigation strategies.
• Maintain succession plans for critical and enterprise roles.
• Monitor successor readiness and track development actions to accelerate progression.
• Provide insight and reporting on succession health and pipeline strength.

Talent Reviews & Talent Identification

• Lead talent review activities across functions and regions.
• Support calibration discussions to ensure consistency and quality of talent decisions.
• Identify high-potential talent and future leaders through robust assessment processes.
• Build talent profiles and development recommendations for key talent populations.

Leadership Development

• Design and deliver leadership development initiatives aligned to Dyson's capability requirements.
• Manage learning journeys for emerging, mid-level, and senior leaders.
• Partner with external providers, facilitators, and coaches where required.
• Evaluate programme effectiveness and continuously improve learning outcomes.
• Support executive and leadership team development activities.

Performance Management

• Support the design and execution of Dyson's performance management processes.
• Drive annual performance cycles, calibration discussions, and talent outcomes.
• Develop tools, guidance, and resources that help leaders drive performance.
• Promote a culture of continuous feedback, accountability, and development.
• Analyse performance data and identify opportunities for improvement.

Talent Programmes

• Lead enterprise talent programmes including high-potential development, mentoring, coaching, and leadership acceleration initiatives.
• Manage programme governance, communications, budgets, timelines, and stakeholder engagement.
• Measure programme effectiveness using talent and business outcomes.

Talent Analytics & Insights

• Analyse talent, succession, development, and performance data to identify trends and risks.
• Develop reports and dashboards for HR leadership and business stakeholders.
• Generate insights that support workforce and talent decisions.
• Use data to evaluate programme impact and inform future investment.

Stakeholder Partnership

• Build strong relationships with HR Business Partners and business leaders globally.
• Act as a trusted advisor on talent and leadership development matters.
• Influence talent decisions through insight, evidence, and best practice.
• Support enterprise talent discussions and governance forums.

Skills & Experience

Essential

• Significant experience in Talent Management, Leadership Development, Organisational Development, Learning & Development, or related disciplines.
• Experience managing succession planning and talent review processes in a global organisation.
• Strong understanding of performance management methodologies and talent assessment practices.
• Demonstrated experience delivering leadership development programmes.
• Strong project management and stakeholder management skills.
• Data-driven with the ability to translate insights into action.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills.

Preferred

• Experience working within a technology, engineering, manufacturing, or product-led organisation.
• Experience supporting global leadership populations.
• Knowledge of talent assessment tools and psychometric methodologies.
• Coaching qualification or certification.

Dyson is an equal opportunity employer. We know that great minds don’t think alike, and it takes all kinds of minds to make our technology so unique. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and employment decisions are made without regard to race, colour, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, protected veteran status or other any other dimension of diversity.

At Dyson we are focused on solving the problems that others have ignored; solving them first using our technology and ingenuity. In order to achieve this we need to pioneer technologies that are different and authentic. This is the core of what we do and who we are. We must strive to create the future, every single day by developing new things, different things, things that go against the grain with a diverse and global team of ingenious minds. Dyson employs 14,000 people and is present in more than 80 countries. And while we are growing fast we want Dyson to remain a start-up in spirit with the freedom of experimentation and learning, constantly reinventing our products as well as reinventing how we work, how we sell and how we support our owners. At the same time we are working through the James Dyson Foundation, James Dyson Award and Dyson Institute to inspire future engineers and pioneering a new approach to engineering education. Underlining everything we do in this diverse environment is the need to always show respect, supporting each other as one team to overcome whatever challenges we encounter. We drive empowerment, development and equality in an inclusive environment for our people around the world. The future doesn’t just happen, we look to make it happen, to achieve leaps through pioneering new ideas.