Leadership Strategy Specialist

Role Overview

Leadership and Talent Strategy

• Identify critical talent needs, leadership gaps, and future workforce requirements.
• Manage succession planning for key roles and leadership positions.
• Identify, assess, and develop high-potential employees and future leaders.
• Design talent development programs, leadership pathways, and career frameworks.
• Establish leadership competencies, talent priorities, and development plans.

Analysis and Organizational Development

• Conduct talent reviews, succession discussions, capability assessments, and workforce planning.
• Analyze workforce, performance, engagement, retention, and talent data.
• Develop dashboards, reports, metrics, executive presentations, business cases, and recommendations.
• Support change management, culture development, retention, engagement, performance, and internal mobility initiatives.
• Monitor trends in leadership development, workforce strategy, talent technology, and organizational effectiveness.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Work with senior executives, HR leaders, managers, and high-potential employees.
• Collaborate with Learning and Development teams to align training with talent priorities.
• Work with Talent Acquisition teams to align recruitment with future leadership and capability requirements.
• Support executive development, coaching, mentoring, and management development programs.
• Establish talent KPIs and measure program effectiveness.

Required Experience and Capabilities

• Experience in talent strategy, leadership development, talent management, HR strategy, or organizational development.
• Strong understanding of succession planning, workforce planning, and talent management.
• Experience developing competency frameworks, assessment models, succession plans, or career programs.
• Strong analytical, strategic-thinking, communication, presentation, facilitation, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple strategic initiatives and work in a complex organization.
• Strong project management and organizational skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with HRIS, talent management platforms, performance systems, or people analytics tools is advantageous.
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant HR, business, psychology, management, or organizational field is preferred.
• Master’s degree, MBA, or certifications such as CIPD, SHRM, HCI, or Prosci are advantageous.

What We Offer

• Opportunity to shape leadership pipelines and organization-wide talent strategy.
• Exposure to executive leadership, succession planning, workforce strategy, organizational development, and transformation.
• Career progression and professional development through coaching, mentorship, and training.