Are you ready to shape the future of leadership and talent at a truly global scale? As our Global Talent & Leadership Partner, you will play a central role in ensuring our people and leaders are prepared for the challenges of tomorrow. Reporting to the Global Head of Talent, TA & Learning, you will work closely with senior business leaders and HR to identify and accelerate key talent, strengthen succession pipelines, and ensure leadership readiness for the future. This is a highly visible role with direct impact on shaping the next generation of global leaders.
In this role, you are one of two global experts resposible for the realisation of our Talent ambition across Vanderlande. You don't just run programs; you build the infrastructure that enables our HR Business partners and Leaders to drive talent development effectively.
Your responsibilities
This role is less about program delivery and more about shaping talent processes, influencing mindset, and embedding a talent-focused culture across the organization.
Embed a data-driven succession planning mindset and methodology into the daily rythm of the business.
Design and oversee the Global Talent Review porcess, ensuring consistent execution across all entities/business units.
Turn talent strategy into initiatives that strengthen leadership pipelines and accelerate key talent.
Design and implement effective talent identification and appointment processes.
Drive succession planning and leadership development beyond formal programs.
Engage and enable HRBPs and senior leaders to take ownership of talent initiatives.
Embed talent development into day-to-day operations, making leaders accountable for growing their teams.
Use data and insights to guide talent discussions and inform strategic decisions.
Innovate frameworks, tools, and approaches to meet evolving organizational needs.
Act as a trusted partner to senior leaders and HR colleagues, shaping the next generation of leaders.
Your profile
- Proven experience in global talent management and leadership development
- Strong track record in designing and implementing scalable talent processes and frameworks.
- Experience in shifting from an operational delivery model to a center of Expertise (CoE)/Enablement model.
- Strong abilty to influence without authority, specifically equipping HR Business Partners to act as the primary interface for Talent Management.
- Strong background in succession planning, talent processes and stakeholder engagement.
- Demonstrated ability to turn complex talent and succession data into clear strategic insights that drive executive decision-making.
- Excellent influencing and relationship skills, with credibility to engage at the highest leadership levels.
- Collaborative mindset with deep experience working across multiple HR disciplines.
- Innovative, future-focused, and passionate about building inclusive leadership pipelines.
This position has no direct reports but sits at the heart of our global talent team, collaborating with Talent Partners, Talent Acquisition, Learning experts, and senior stakeholders worldwide. In this role, you will not only enable leadership readiness today, but also shape the leaders of tomorrow.
With a lean Global Talent team, scalability is key. You will not be personally coaching hundreds of employees. Instead you focus on enablement: creating tools, simple processes and clear methodologies that allow the organization to run the talent agenda with your strategic guidance.
What do we offer?
This position offers a competitive salary range of € 7.000 to € 8.500 per month (excluding 8% holiday allowance).
On top of your fixed salary you’ll receive the following secondary benefits:
40 vacation days (20 statutory days and a flexible budget worth 20 days).
Lease Car (Allowance)
Flexible working hours.
A hybrid workplace (40% working from home and 60% in the office).
A Health & Wellbeing budget worth €300,- per calendar year.
Commuting allowance, including full reimbursement of travel by public transport.
Working from home allowance.
Collective pension scheme and discount on additional health insurance.
On-site company health centres with a gym, physiotherapists and occupational therapists.
Vanderlande Academy and training facilities to boost your skills.
A variety in Vanderlande Network communities and initiatives.
And a great company restaurant and coffee bar with barista.
Contact
If this opportunity aligns with your expertise and ambitions, we invite you to apply by submitting your CV and cover letter. For further information,
please contact Stef Alferink (recruiter) by phone +31 413 755 087
Diversity & Inclusion
Vanderlande embraces diversity in all its forms. We welcome qualified applicants regardless of race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.
What We Do
Vanderlande is the global market leader for future-proof logistic process automation at airports. The company is also a leading supplier of process automation solutions for warehouses and in the parcel market.
Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems are capable of moving over 4 billion pieces of baggage around the world per year. Its systems are active in more than 600 airports including 12 of the world’s top 20. More than 52 million parcels are sorted by its systems every day, which have been installed for the world’s leading parcel companies. In addition, many of the largest global e-commerce players and retailers have confidence in Vanderlande’s efficient and reliable solutions.
The company focuses on the optimisation of its customers’ business processes and competitive positions. Through close cooperation, it strives for the improvement of their operational activities and the expansion of their logistical achievements. Vanderlande’s extensive portfolio of integrated solutions – innovative systems, intelligent software and life-cycle services – results in the realisation of fast, reliable and efficient automation technology.
Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 7,500 employees, all committed to moving its customers’ businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent. With a consistently increasing turnover of 1.8 billion euros, it has established a global reputation over the past seven decades as a highly reliable partner for future-proof logistic process automation.
Vanderlande was acquired in 2017 by Toyota Industries Corporation, which will help it to continue its sustainable profitable growth. The two companies have a strong strategic match, and the synergies include cross-selling, product innovations, and research and development.
