Career Manager

We are looking for a new colleague to join us as a Career Manager and play a strategic role in people development by supporting Yonder communities in realizing their ambitions, guiding them to be pro-active, entrepreneurial, taking their future and development in their own hands. She/he will be responsible for the qualitative and quantitative growth of the community within the framework of company’s strategic goals.

Key activities areas:

Mentoring and coaching

• Sustains periodical formal and informal discussions with managed people within the community on their career path aspirations
• Enables people to become independent and mature professionals
• Ensures employees understand their role and business requirements
• Builds up people engagement

Performance management

• Responsible for setting, reviewing and implementing the Performance Management Process in tight collaboration with other stakeholders
• Identifies competency gaps as well as new or emerging needs and recommends actions to be taken

Personal development planning

• Responsible for setting, reviewing and implementing career development plans of employees
• Develops talents and fosters employees with good potential
• Supports the ongoing development of the employees including induction and proactively identifies development needs
• Identifies and nominates technical mentors if the need is expressed

Resource management

• Fully accountable on key areas like hiring and developing community members
• Understands relevant business issues and the organization’s operating procedures and priorities
• Responsible, together with the Delivery Managers in identifying the appropriate employee with the needed skills for the projects
• Centralizes the competencies, strengths and ambitions of the managed people
• Responsible for constant input and reporting needed in reviewing the Compensation System, Training Plans and other People Processes

Knowledge sharing

• Building a community based on common technical background or common interests
• Works together with the other Career Managers in aligning the knowledge sharing activities
• Identifies and encourages people to gather knowledge, to build their technical skills and aim for excellence in their domain
• Proposes professionals for technical trainings, certifications and events
• Encourages and supports people to be active in their community
• Works together with HR in organizing internal trainings & identifying the best topics and trainers

What are we looking for:

Competencies

• Excellent communication skills including presentation skills
• A highly people-oriented person with assertiveness, determination and relationship building skills
• Proactive approach with high level of self-motivation, enthusiasm and the ability to support others in achieving the same
• Good time management and analytical skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Team Leadership
• Decision making – ability to take timely and appropriate decisions to sustain business objectives
• Delegating, with experience in coaching and mentoring
• Networking – builds wide and useful networks of contacts inside and outside the organization in order to achieve positive results
• Fluent in English, both written and verbal

Specific knowledge and experience

• Previous experience in coordinating teams, proven potential in terms of people agility
• Knowledge and ability to work with metrics, including gathering, reporting

Values and attitude

• Highly reliable, able to respond flexibly to changing priorities
• Calm and patient under pressure with good abilities to manage conflict with a constructive approach
• Tact, diplomacy, strong sense of ethics and ability to work with sensitive and confidential information in an objective manner
• Continuous improvement mindset
• Strong ability to gain clear agreement and commitment from others by persuading, convincing and negotiating
• Empathetic, genuinely caring about the team members
• Professional and positive attitude

Apply now and let's meet!