Talent Growth Director

Cochlear's mission is to help people hear and be heard. As the global leader in implantable hearing solutions, Cochlear is dedicated to helping people with moderate to profound hearing loss experience a world full of sound. We aim to transform the way people understand and treat hearing loss and innovate to connect people with future technologies. Our employees tell us that the number one reason they enjoy working for Cochlear is the opportunity to make a difference to people's lives. Learn and grow with us as we tackle the most complex challenges in helping more people to experience a lifetime of hearing.

The Opportunity

Cochlear has a newly created opportunity for a Talent Growth Director. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in bringing our enterprise talent strategy to life. This involves working with key stakeholders to identify and prioritise critical succession gaps, assess bench strength, and connect insights across Talent Acquisition and Talent Development. The Talent Growth Director will work closely with senior leaders, business partners, and centres of expertise to prioritise key roles and talent opportunities and shape strategies to build and acquire high-calibre talent for future business needs.

Responsibilities include:

• Working with key stakeholders across a global, matrix organisation to understand Cochlear's enterprise-level talent landscape and business needs to enable the identification and prioritisation of talent needs and opportunities.

• Developing strategies and taking action to strengthen succession planning and build a diverse pipeline of future leaders and talent across our critical talent segments, across time horizons.

• Identifying those roles and skills where internal expertise and knowledge is critical or where external expertise can be sourced, to inform build, buy and borrow activities.

• Partnering with Talent Acquisition to map, identify and build external talent pools.

• Continue to challenge the status quo, taking every opportunity to instil a mind-set and practice of ensuring organisation and role design optimises opportunity for business growth and value creation into the future.

• Ensuring a tight linkage between recruitment, talent planning, succession and business partnering activities to ensure we are tapping into our internal talent pools and optimising growth and development opportunities for employees as much as possible.

What makes this opportunity unique?

This is a newly created role offering the chance to shape the future of Cochlear's talent strategy. You'll have exposure to senior leadership, work across multiple functions, and influence decisions that impact our global workforce. If you thrive in a dynamic environment and want to make a lasting impact, this is your opportunity.

About You

As we grow our operations, we are looking for people who share our passion for delivering quality hearing solutions to our customers. To add value to Cochlear in this role, you'll be able to demonstrate the following essential skills and experience:

• Strong understanding of succession planning, talent pipeline development, and build/buy/borrow strategies.

• Experience in senior-level recruitment and external talent pooling, ideally with exposure to both Talent Acquisition and Talent Development.

• Commercial acumen with ability to link business priorities to talent strategies, over both short and longer-term time horizons.

• Proven ability to influence and collaborate across a matrix organisation without direct authority.

• Agility and comfort working in ambiguity, pivoting as priorities evolve.

If you feel that you have the skills and experience to be successful in this role and take on new challenges to build your career with Cochlear, please start your application by clicking the apply button below.

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How we recognise your contribution

At Cochlear we value and welcome the unique contributions, perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds of our employees and aim to build a culture that celebrates and leverages these differences, creating a sense of belonging and enabling our people to realise their full potential. Through our internal programs and employee benefits, we aim to create an environment where our people will feel value and supported. Whether your focus is on continuous learning, professional development or simply finding an environment which enables you to thrive whilst balancing family or personal life commitments, then we have several programs in place to support you.

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