General Manager Talent & Culture (All genders welcome)

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General Manager Talent & Culture - (All genders welcome)



at the Kia Europe Headquarters in Frankfurt/Main, Germany.

Job mission:

As General Manager of Talent & Culture for Kia Europe, your mission is to drive strategies that empower people, foster innovation, and align our culture with Kia’s brand and goals. By leading learning solutions, transparent communication, and employer branding initiatives, you’ll ensure seamless integration of people development processes to attract, retain, and grow top talent across the region.

Your responsibilities:

The following are main tasks and main responsibilities, but not limited:

Talent & Culture Strategic Function  

Developing strategies and plans for the following areas for Kia in Europe: 

• Talent & Culture (Learning & Development): Focus on agile and scalable blended learning solutions for senior management in the European region

• Change Management & Internal Communication: Access to open & transparent communication is the starting point to achieve our brand and culture transformation. Developing and facilitating a habit of acquiring and sharing information and knowledge in a simple, intuitive and integrated manner across the European region for innovation, performance and to provide value to our customers is at the core of this role. This requires customized content creation and collaboration between all stakeholders for maximum customer value.  

• Employer Branding: Living our brand, culture and Kia team spirit inside out and showcasing this in a consistent and coherent manner externally will support us in attracting, engaging and retaining talent and developing strategies to do so is the focus of the General Manager Talent & Culture.  

• Country manager for various markets.

• Core processes: People Development, Performance Management (competencies), Succession Planning framework. 

Role focus 

• Creates strategies upon analyzing complex information through an in depth understanding of the customers and the company context and goals.  

• Creates and optimizes innovative frameworks for learning, knowledge sharing, collaboration and employer branding.  

• Leads the delivery of the strategies and plans based on sound understanding of the company direction and while aligning with all relevant stakeholders.  

• Leads and monitors resource allocation of the department to achieve the targets.  

• Maximizes company performance by aligning Talent & Culture plans with other managers and executives while fostering collaboration and best practice sharing in the region.  

• Establishing development of People & Organization and Talent & Culture team members in line with department goals.  

Your talents:

Education:

• University degree with focus on human resources or relevant professional working experience.

 Experience:

• Min. 10 years experience with Talent & Culture strategic related topics. 

Skills:

• People management & development skills

• Profound IT affinity

• Strong interpersonal skills  

• Distinctive organizational skills

• Solution-oriented thinking and can-do working manner

• Flexibility & ability to adapt in a multicultural & quick developing environment

• Fluent in English (written and spoken), suitable languages advantageous.

• International background and mindset fitting to diverse management roles in a global company, ideally internationally mobile

• For roles in RHQ, subsidiary experience in advantageous

• Group facilitation skills
  
  

Who are we?

Kia is a global mobility brand with a vision to create sustainable mobility solutions for consumers, communities, and societies around the world. Founded in 1944, Kia has been building motorcycles, cars and trucks for more than 75 years.

Kia is now spearheading the popularization of electrified and battery electric vehicles, developing a growing range of mobility services while encouraging millions of people to explore the best ways of getting around. Our brand slogan – ‘Movement that inspires’ – reflects our commitment to inspire consumers through our products and services.

Kia Europe is the European sales and manufacturing arm of Kia Corporation. From our headquarters in Frankfurt, Germany, we lead 39 markets across Europe and the Caucasus, employing more than 5,500 persons, including about 3,500 blue collar workers in our state of the art car plant in Zilina, Slovakia.

Our headquarter is home to more than 40 different nationalities and this diversity is truly inspiring! This means that every day at Kia is an opportunity to learn something new and to grow personally and professionally. The mix of ambitious and dynamic employees from all over the world is the fuel to our success. Do you have what it takes to join our team? We are looking forward to getting to know you!

You will enjoy working with us if you like these things:

• A pulsating international environment. Our workforce is composed of people from more than 40 nations

• Playing an active and important part in the development of Kia in Europe.

• Developing new frameworks and solutions

• Demanding challenges to which you can creatively contribute

• A competitive compensation package; private leasing offer; systematic off and on-the-job training, free staff restaurant, support as concerns Health Management and more

If you’re interested to become part of our Kia team, please apply via our online portal. We are looking forward to getting to know you.