The Senior Talent Development Specialist designs, delivers, and continuously improves key talent development programs, with a primary focus on Internship and Graduate Programs across India, Australia, and New Zealand.
The role strengthens the organization's early-career talent pipeline and employment brand by building effective partnerships with schools, vocational training organizations, and universities aligned with workforce and capability needs.
This is a hands-on individual contributor role responsible for end-to-end program management, stakeholder engagement, commercial awareness, and continuous improvement across multiple regions and business environments.
Key Responsibilities
Early Career Program Ownership and Delivery
- Own and manage the end-to-end delivery of Internship and Graduate Programs, including planning, intake coordination, program delivery, completion, and program evaluation.
- Ensure programs are practical, safe, and relevant to manufacturing, operational, technical, and corporate environments.
- Coordinate learning activities, job rotations, check-ins, and formal program milestones across multiple geographies.
- Partner with line managers to support participant development, performance feedback, and successful program outcomes.
- Support the organization's trades and apprenticeship strategy.
Employment Brand and Early-Career Talent Pipeline
- Support and strengthen the organization's employment brand within the early-career talent market.
- Build and maintain relationships with:
- Secondary schools
- Vocational and technical training organizations
- Universities and higher education institutions
- Coordinate participation in career fairs, information sessions, site visits, and other pipeline development activities aligned with future capability needs.
- Collaborate with the Talent Acquisition team to ensure employer branding, messaging, and talent pipeline initiatives remain aligned and commercially focused.
- Design and implement a capability development framework and program for frontline leaders aligned with the organization's Leadership Capability Framework.
Leadership & Talent Development Programs
- Provide program management and coordination support for Frontline Leader Development Programs.
- Coordinate logistics, scheduling, stakeholder engagement, and participant experience for leadership and talent development initiatives.
- Support the delivery of additional leadership, capability, and targeted development programs as required.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external learning providers to ensure programs are delivered consistently and meet agreed quality standards.
Key Challenges
- Managing competing regional priorities and time-zone differences.
- Ensuring programs remain practical and relevant in operational environments.
- Building strong engagement with leaders who have limited availability.
- Balancing global consistency with local business needs.
Key Relationships
Primary Functional Peers / Manager
- Learning and Inclusion Manager
- Capability and Performance Manager
- Senior Learning Specialist
Key Stakeholders
Internal
- People & Culture Team
- People Leaders across all levels of the organization
External
- Schools, vocational training organizations, and universities
- Graduate and early-career program participants
- Learning and development providers (as required)
Key Requirements
Experience and Qualifications
Mandatory
- Demonstrated experience in Talent Development, Learning & Development, Early Careers, or Leadership Program Coordination.
- Proven experience managing end-to-end programs, including planning, execution, and stakeholder engagement.
- Experience partnering with leaders in both operational and corporate environments.
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Education, Psychology, or a related field.
Preferred
- Experience managing internship, graduate, or early-career programs within a large or complex organization.
- Exposure to working across Australia, New Zealand, and/or India.
- Experience coordinating leadership or frontline development programs.
- Familiarity with using data, feedback, and performance metrics to evaluate and continuously improve development programs.
Key Skills
- Strong program ownership and execution across multiple regions.
- Ability to build effective relationships with operational and corporate leaders.
- Practical approach to learning within manufacturing and technical environments.
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Data-driven mindset for measuring program effectiveness and driving continuous improvement.
