Senior Manager Academies & Talent Management

Senior Manager Academies & Talent Management

What can you expect?

The Senior Manager Academies & Talent Management reports into the VP HR and is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing learning and development strategies across functional/leadership academies for Adient EMEA. This role ensures alignment with Adient’s goals, driving capability building, and fostering a culture of continuous learning within various functions, e.g. Sales, Program Management, Engineering, Purchasing and Operations.

Adient (NYSE: ADNT) is a global leader in automotive seating. With more than 65,000 employees in 29 countries, Adient operates ~200 manufacturing/assembly plants worldwide. We produce and deliver automotive seating for all major OEMs. From complete seating systems to individual components, our expertise spans every step of the automotive seat-making process. We take our products from research and design to engineering and manufacturing — and into millions of vehicles every year. For more information, please visit

At Adient, we are proud to offer hybrid working to our employees, which involves being able to work remotely for up to 3 days per week based on the agreement within the specific department.

What will your responsibilities be?

Functional/Leadership Academies

Academy Design: Creation and revision of strategies and concepts for functional/leadership academies to build future-ready capabilities across various functions. Partner with HR Business Partners and functional leaders to continuously identify critical skills, skill gaps and gap closure action plans.

Academy Governance: Develop and maintain governance frameworks for functional/leadership academies. Ensure programs are aligned with global standards and business priorities.

Training Programs: Oversee the design and delivery of learning curricula, and technical/leadership skill-building programs. Leverage digital learning platforms and innovative methodologies to enhance cost efficiency and engagement.

Stakeholder Management: Act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders on functional/leadership academy strategies. Build strong relationships with internal and external learning partners.

Evaluation of training measures: Use analytics to measure effectiveness and impact on business performance. Provide regular reporting and insights to leadership teams.

Talent Management

Processes & Tools: consult on internal processes and tools, identify and implement enhancements.

Development Programs: support deployment of existing regional programs and identify opportunities for additional development programs.

Which qualifications are we looking for in potential employees?

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in psychology, HR, Educational Sciences, Business Administration or related field

10+ years of experience in building and driving functional/leadership academies as well as talent management and learning & development experience

Additional qualification and experience as a coach and/or trainer within human resources with a focus on personality and behavioral aspects advantageous; experience with a talent management organizational consulting firm is advantageous

Extensive experience in designing and implementing large-scale talent programs, trainings and workshops

Extensive experience in applying and conducting different competencies and skill assessments, e.g. 360 feedback, as well as other diagnostic methods

Extensive experience within project management, in particular agile project management

Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills at senior levels

Experience with digital learning platforms and data-driven decision-making

Excellent communication and advisory skills with the ability to communicate at all levels of the business both internally and externally

Fluent in English; other language skills are advantageous

Adient is committed to equal employment opportunity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace. As a true global company, our leaders and employees come from various cultures across the world. Our diversity is a source of inspiration enabling us to achieve our goals and build an inclusive company culture.

We are looking forward to receiving your application including your salary expectations and your earliest availability date. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact Helena Grimm on .

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