Senior Talent Development Specialist, SSEA

Senior Talent Development Specialist, SSEA at Louis Dreyfus Company in Petaling Jaya, 10, Malaysia.

Responsibilities

Talent Management

• Support the implementation of Talent Management and Development frameworks across South & Southeast Asia, ensuring consistent adoption and execution of regional and global initiatives.
• Coordinate and facilitate key talent processes including Talent Reviews, Succession Planning, Talent Assessments, and Development Planning activities.
• Monitor country compliance and execution quality of talent and performance management processes and proactively follow up on gaps and action plans.
• Partner with Country HR teams to ensure talent initiatives are effectively localized and embedded within business practices.

Leadership Development

• Support the deployment of leadership development initiatives and learning programs across the region.
• Coordinate regional leadership development activities, workshops, assessments, and follow-up development actions.
• Manage and coordinate Graduate Trainee and Early Career programs across the region, including selection, development activities, stakeholder engagement and progress monitoring.
• Track program outcomes and provide recommendations to enhance talent pipeline development, retention and readiness.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners and business leaders to ensure effective identification and development of future talent.

Learning & LMS Governance

• Support the implementation and continuous improvement of the regional Learning & Development strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities and workforce capability needs.
• Coordinate and manage regional learning programs, leadership development initiatives, workshops and other capability-building interventions.
• Partner with Country HR teams and business stakeholders to identify learning needs and support the development of annual learning plans.
• Work with internal and external learning providers to ensure effective design, delivery and evaluation of learning solutions.
• Monitor learning effectiveness through participation, completion, feedback and business impact measures, and provide recommendations for improvement.
• Support the planning, tracking and governance of regional learning and development budgets.
• Monitor learning expenditure against budget and provide regular reporting and analysis to support decision-making together with Country HR teams.
• Support governance and administration of the Learning Management System (LMS) across the regio, and monitor learning data quality

Employee Experience & Engagement

• Support the design, implementation and continuous improvement of employee experience projects, work on improvement actions based on engagement survey data.
• Support onboarding experience improvement and employee integration initiatives across the region. Monitor onboarding effectiveness and partner with Country HR teams to improve new hire engagement, experience and early productivity.

Requirements

• Approximately 8-10 years of HR experience, with at least 5 years in Talent Management, Leadership Development, Learning & Development, Performance Management or related Talent practices.
• Experience supporting regional or multi-country HR initiatives is highly preferred.
• Proven experience coordinating talent reviews, succession planning, performance management or leadership development programs.
• Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Experience preparing reports, dashboards and presentations for leadership audiences.

Other Skills

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills.
• Strong facilitation and presentation capabilities.
• Comfortable working independently in a regional, matrixed environment.
• High attention to detail and strong execution discipline.
• Strong problem-solving mindset and continuous improvement orientation.
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; experience with Workday, LMS or other HR systems is an advantage.
• Fluent written and spoken English.

Benefits

Additional Information for the job

We provide a dynamic and stimulating international environment, which will stretch and develop your abilities and channel your skills and expertise with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

• Competitive salary and benefits
• Hybrid work available (not applicable to all roles)
• Pension contributions
• Access to Training and Development
• Access to Concierge Partnerships
• Diversity & Inclusion
• LDC is driven by a set of shared values and high ethical standards, with diversity and inclusion being part of our DNA. LDC is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing a working environment that embraces and values diversity, equity and inclusion.
• LDC encourages diversity, supports local communities and environmental initiatives. We encourage people of all backgrounds to apply.

Sustainability

• Sustainable value is at the heart of our purpose as a company.
• We are passionate about creating fair and sustainable value, both for our business and for other value chain stakeholders: our people, our business partners, the communities we touch and the environment around us

About the Company

Louis Dreyfus Company is a leading merchant and processor of agricultural goods. Our activities span the entire value chain from farm to fork, across a broad range of business lines, we leverage our global reach and extensive asset network to serve our customers and consumers around the world. Structured as a matrix organization of six geographical regions and ten platforms, Louis Dreyfus Company is active in over 100 countries and employs approximately 18,000 people globally.