Freelance Talent Management Specialist (ZZP)

1.5 years ago a global leader in health, nutrition, and bioscience merged with the world's largest privately-owned fragrance and taste company. The resulting company is called dsm-firmenich, a company with 30,000 committed, enthusiastic, and talented people as our colleagues and combined 150+ years of scientific discovery and innovation heritage. We’re innovators in health, nutrition, and beauty, working at the intersection of what’s essential, desirable, and sustainable. And we use our complementary strengths to bring progress to life.

We want our employees to continuously progress. By setting objectives together, by providing continuous feedback, by offering growth opportunities that fit the situation of the employee. We call this continuous cycle our People Progress approach. Linking performance, talent and development together.

People make all the difference. Within COE Talent& Culture team, the Talent Management, Performance & Development team focuses on learning, development, and performance management. We want our employees to be brave to venture into the unknown, try new things and with curiously build a passion for learning. For this team we are looking for a Global Lead Talent Management who helps us build and launch our new people progress approach. The role reports to the VP Talent Mgt, Performance and Development.

• Design and implement our global people progress approach, talent review process, including talent pools and development tracks

• Ensure our design is integrated end to end with existing concepts (e.g. performance mgt, rewards, etc)

• Socializing and reaching alignment with HR LT and other senior stakeholders

• Change management, engagement and deployment of our people progress approach in the global organization via our HR community

• Building connection with the network of HR ambassadors, training them on the approach

You'll bring:

• Motivation letter based on the requirements

• 10-15 years experience in relevant domain and large matrix organizations

• Strategic shaper with a hands-on approach, ready to dive in and execute.

• Expert in global talent processes, from reviews to succession and development.

• Skilled in aligning HR initiatives with performance and rewards for lifecycle coherence.

• Strong in stakeholder relationships; effective at securing buy-in and navigating complexity.

• Change leader with a focus on global engagement, adoption, and execution.

• Experienced in launching scalable HR programs across cultures and markets.

• Persuasive communicator, able to simplify concepts, align stakeholders, and drive action

• High level of proficiency in English for effective communication, training, and collaboration across global teams and stakeholders.

• You can work from the Netherlands, from Europe or the USA