Global Talent Partner

At Telefónica, our People strategy is built on fostering an agile, inclusive, and future-ready organization where talent is the cornerstone of our business success. With more than 100,000 employees worldwide, our mission is to develop a skilled workforce capable of driving impact and transformation across all our markets.

Mission

As a Global Talent Partner, your mission is to strengthen and future-proof Telefónica’s leadership bench by building a solid and diverse pipeline of talent — across gender, age, experiences, and capabilities — to reinforce our competitive advantage.

You will play a strategic role in connecting succession planning, executive mobility, and critical leadership hiring to drive business success.

Collaborating closely with senior stakeholders, operating businesses (OBs), and People teams globally, you will design, implement, and track talent strategies that deliver business impact, enable leadership renewal, and build a future-ready organization.

Responsibilities

• Engage top talent (internal and external) for critical leadership roles, fostering diversity in gender, age, experiences, and capabilities.
• Connect and coordinate globally succession planning, talent mobility, and critical executive vacancies to enable proactive talent moves, close the capability gaps, and ensure consistent, future-focused leadership decisions across the Group.
• Lead the executive mobility initiative across the Group as a strategic lever for leadership development and business impact, managing the Talent Brokers network to proactively unlock opportunities and accelerate internal moves.
• Assess and manage succession plans, identifying risks and gaps, and driving targeted action plans.
• Coordinate talent communities and initiatives to accelerate the development, visibility, and deployment of talent at scale.
• Design and prototype skills-based selection processes to strengthen leadership hiring and capability building.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration between the Global Talent team and business units, ensuring alignment, transparency, and impact on talent priorities.

Required experience

• 10+ years of experience in fast-paced, complex, and dynamic environments. Consulting background (top-tier, specialized in Executive Search and/or Leadership Advisory) is highly valued.
• Strong expertise in designing and leading end-to-end talent initiatives (leadership hiring, talent assessment, succession planning, executive mobility etc.).
• Solid understanding of market dynamics and leadership profiles. Deep understanding of the global talent landscape.
• Demonstrated success in leading large-scale, transformational talent programs with measurable business impact and strong exposure to people strategy and capability-building initiatives.

Skills

• Proactivity and drive
• Influence
• Taking Ownership  
• Deliver ambitious results
• Strategic Thinking
• Push to Execution
• Executive communication

Languages

• Fluent Spanish and English speaker essential for this role.
• Portuguese is a plus.

If you join Telefónica

You join almost 100 years of history, you join a team of 106 nationalities present in more tan 35 countries. You join a team that works to connect people wherever they are. We are leading the digital revolution with the enthusiasm of the first day in all our businesses, creating the best digital ecosystem for our clients: network, IoT, cloud, security, innovation etc. Here, at Telefónica you count with everything you need to be the best you. We need people like you that wants to take this challenge of creating the Telefónica of tomorrow.

Telefonica is committed to the new working ways. Under our proposition “Disconnect to Reconnect” we have applied the Digital Disconnection.

You join a company whose activity is governed by its code of ethics, Our Responsible Business Principles. We are looking for people who identify with them, who help us make decisions based on integrity, commitment and transparency and who are committed to ethical management, promoting fairer and more sustainable social and environmental development.

#WeAreInclusive

We strongly believe diverse and inclusive teams become more innovative and they achieve improved results. Telefonica aims to promote and guarantee a place for everyone, just the way we are: gender, age range, sexual orientation and/or identity, culture, creed, disability or any other personal condition.