Global Talent Partner

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 at Telefónica, your mission is to strengthen and future-proof our talent bench by building a solid and diverse pipeline — across gender, age, experiences, and capabilities — to reinforce our competitive advantage. You will play a key role in ensuring that our organization has the right talent in place to drive our business forward in a dynamic, digital world.

Responsibilities

• Lead and evolve core global talent processes, ensuring consistency and excellence across all business units.
• Design and execute talent diagnostics to assess the current talent pool, identify leadership potential, and align development efforts with organizational priorities.
• Design and implement strategic talent initiatives that enable the growth of future-ready capabilities that support organizational transformation and business growth across regions.
• Collaborate closely with senior leaders and People teams globally to embed talent strategies, ensure alignment with business needs, and support local execution.
• Monitor and report on talent impact, using analytics and key metrics..

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.

(1) Our process has been designed to carefully evaluate your skills, abilities and interests regarding each vacancy. We will contact you if you are shortlisted. You can follow the process of your application through SuccessFactors (Careers > Job Applications).

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.