Talent Manager

Are you passionate about shaping talent strategies that drive business success?

As a Talent Manager in our Center of Excellence (CoE) team, you’ll play a key role in leading enterprise-wide initiatives such as organizational review, talent management, performance management, and offboarding.
Your work ensures these processes are not only executed consistently but actively used to build the right capabilities across the organization—enabling teams to contribute to our growth strategy and long-term success.

Key responsibilities

• Organizational review & talent management: Lead annual organizational reviews, talent management processes and develop frameworks for assessing potential, succession planning, and mapping critical roles. Partner with HRBPs and provide training on talent tools
• Performance management: Own the performance management framework, aligning goal-setting and evaluations with business strategy. Drive adoption of performance tools and dashboards in Workday
• Enterprise offboarding: Maintain our offboarding process to capture critical knowledge and elevate it by strengthening relationships with top talent, enabling future re-engagement and potential rehire
• Systems & reporting: Work with our Workday experts to update talent modules and develop dashboards and reports that provide actionable insights. Partner with the people analytics to leverage data for informed, strategic decisions
• Collaboration & integration: Work closely with HRBPs and the People Experience team, and be an integral part of the CoE that also deliver initiatives across development, onboarding, engagement, rewards, analytics, and systems

In addition, there will be room to take on other tasks as needed, so we are looking for someone who is flexible and willing to contribute beyond their core responsibilities.

How to be a success in this role
To succeed in this role, you will proactively identify and address issues that span multiple business units, drive solutions, and adapt approaches based on feedback from P&O teams. You’ll ensure talent and performance processes not only run on time and consistently across the organization but also contribute to building the organizational capabilities required to deliver on our strategy. Success also means building strong relationships with HRBPs and business leaders and making talent insights visible and actionable for leaders.

Key competencies

• Track record of driving talent and performance processes that build organizational capabilities aligned with business strategy
• Organizational design and capability mapping expertise
• Proven track record in performance management and goal setting
• Ability to identify and address issues that span multiple business units
• Strong background in stakeholder engagement and influencing
• Demonstrated ability in communication and facilitation
• Strategic thinking combined with solid business acumen

Join our Center of Excellence team
The CoE consists of highly experienced professionals that work with rewards, P&O systems, analytics, development, and talent. We align the organizational capabilities with BN’s strategy and address gaps by developing and deploying global P&O, tools, systems, and processes. For issues that span multiple business units we also own and drive the solutions.

You will report to Sr. Director, Center of Excellence

Why this position?

• This is your opportunity to make a real impact on the organizational capabilities that enable Bavarian Nordic to save lives
• Join a global team of highly experienced professionals and collaborate with stakeholders across multiple departments and locations
• Be part of a multinational growth environment with career opportunities
• Enjoy flexibility with a hybrid role that combines on-site work and remote work

Ready to make a difference? Apply now
We are interviewing on an ongoing basis and look forward to receiving your motivated CV. A cover letter is not required.

We kindly request that headhunters or recruitment agencies refrain from contacting us regarding this position.

Founded in 1994, we have +30 years of experience developing life-saving vaccines. We are a global leader in smallpox and mpox vaccines. Our commercial product portfolio contains market-leading vaccines against rabies, tick-borne encephalitis, cholera, typhoid, and Ebola. We are headquartered in Denmark and have manufacturing, research, and sales offices across Europe and North America. Our values – our Bavarian Nordic DNA, as we like to call it – are what guide our actions every day. We act as persistent pioneers, embrace change, value being boosted by the team, and believe in protecting lives every day. If that is also a part of your DNA, we invite you to join us in Bavarian Nordic! Bavarian Nordic is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

www.bavarian-nordic.com

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