Senior Director, Talent Management

Olympus Corporation of the Americas•Upper Saucon, PA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The role of Talent Management is responsible for designing and executing global strategies and frameworks that enable the identification, development, and mobility of top talent across the organization. This role leads succession planning, competency management, talent reviews, and career pathing, ensuring alignment with enterprise strategy, values, and workforce needs. As a key member of the People & Culture leadership team, the position plays a central role in shaping a future-ready, inclusive, and high-performing workforce. The role requires a forward-thinking leader with deep knowledge of global talent trends, strong analytical and design skills, and the ability to partner effectively across HR and business leadership to build robust talent pipelines and foster internal career growth. This position critically supports enterprise-wide initiatives ensuring the right talent is in the right position to drive impact. This leader is required to lead end-to-end execution of the design and strategy through a global team, ensuring programs are inclusive, impactful and measurable. The global team will work as one, executing on scalable programs while considering and addressing legislative, language or cultural requirements. This role must build and maintain strong stakeholder relationships; specifically HRBPs, business leaders, and other CoE colleagues. This role will also act as the Global Process Owner for relevant and assigned Talent Management processes.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
Minimum of 10–15 years of experience in talent management, organizational development, or related disciplines in a global, matrixed environment.
Demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide talent processes (succession, talent reviews, career architecture) ideally in an organization with a reputation for excellence in their talent practices.
Proven ability to lead and manage diverse, global teams in a complex, fast-paced regulated environment including in particular experience driving the implementation of talent strategies in a Japanese culture environment.
Expertise in competency frameworks, talent assessment methodologies, and career development models.
Experience leading or supporting enterprise-wide transformations across a global organization.
Strong business acumen and ability to align talent strategy with enterprise goals.
Experience with HR technology and tools that support career mobility, talent planning, and analytics.
Experience leading or significantly contributing to global HR processes and initiatives in a complex, matrixed organization.
Skilled in process design, governance, and continuous improvement, with the ability to translate business needs into scalable solutions.
Proven ability to support global executive leaders directly on succession and talent-related practices.
Solid knowledge of HRIS (SuccessFactors or Workday) module implementation in area of succession and talent management.
Solid knowledge of “Companies Act”, “Corporate Governance Code” and related laws and regulations in Japan.
Ability for 10% global travel.
Expected to regularly engage with global teams, requiring availability for calls and collaboration before or after standard business hours.

Nice To Haves

advanced degree in HR, Organizational Development, Industrial Psychology, or related field preferred.

Responsibilities

Lead and implement a global talent management strategy aligned to business growth, workforce agility, and long-term succession needs.
Translate enterprise priorities into actionable talent programs across functions and geographies, integrating workforce planning, L&D, Inclusion, and performance management.
Oversee global succession planning for critical roles, building diverse successor pipelines and readiness plans.
Partner with senior leaders and HRBPs to assess bench strength, mitigate talent risks, and facilitate executive talent reviews and calibration sessions.
Support EO succession planning, transition communications, and governance with the Nominating Committee and key stakeholders.
Lead development and governance of global competency frameworks aligned with culture, leadership expectations, and evolving business capabilities.
Design and deploy global career architecture, role families, career paths, and mobility programs to enable transparent growth opportunities.
Establish and manage key talent metrics, leveraging analytics to identify trends, forecast risks, and improve decision-making.
Partner with HRBPs, CoEs, and business leaders to drive integrated, inclusive, and scalable talent practices globally.
Lead, develop, and inspire a global team of 8, fostering a collaborative, high-performance, one-team culture.
Act as Global Process Owner for assigned HR processes, driving standardization, governance, continuous improvement, and change initiatives across regions.
Lead talent-related HRIS (SuccessFactors) implementations and JD standardization projects, including governance, system integration, and vendor management.