Sr. Manager, L&D and Talent Management, Mexico GCC

Job Title: Senior Manager, Learning & Development and Talent Management
Location: Mexico
Company: Kraft Heinz

About the Role
The Senior Manager, Learning & Development and Talent Management plays a critical role in strengthening organizational capability and building the talent needed to deliver business priorities. This role is primarily focused on talent management, leading key processes and strategies related to succession planning, talent reviews, leadership pipeline, performance enablement, and development planning, while ensuring learning initiatives are aligned to business needs.

This role partners closely with HR and business leaders to identify talent priorities, strengthen bench strength, accelerate development of key talent, and build scalable approaches that enable long-term business performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the talent management agenda across the assigned business scope, ensuring strong alignment with business priorities and future capability needs
• Drive core talent processes including talent reviews, succession planning, development planning, and leadership pipeline discussions
• Partner with business leaders and HR to identify critical roles, key talent, succession risks, and capability gaps
• Translate talent insights into focused actions that improve readiness, internal mobility, retention, and long-term organizational strength
• Support performance processes by enabling quality talent discussions, calibration, and clear follow-up actions
• Build and implement strategies that strengthen leadership capability and develop future-ready talent pipelines
• Design and deliver targeted learning and development initiatives that support business priorities and talent outcomes
• Use talent data, organizational insights, and business context to identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide clear recommendations
• Drive accountability with leaders for talent development and succession health across their teams
• Partner cross-functionally to ensure consistency, governance, and continuous improvement across talent and development practices
• Support change management and communication related to talent, performance, and development initiatives

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, Organizational Development, or related field
• Strong experience in talent management, organizational development, leadership development, or HR business partnership
• Proven experience leading talent review and succession planning processes
• Strong ability to connect business strategy with talent priorities and organizational capability actions
• Strong stakeholder management, communication, and influencing skills across senior leaders
• Experience using talent data and insights to shape recommendations and actions
• Strong project management and execution skills in a fast-paced, matrixed environment
• Advanced English communication skills, both written and verbal

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working in a complex, global, or regional organization
• Experience supporting shared services, corporate, or multifunctional populations
• Experience with performance management, talent planning, and leadership development cycles
• Ability to balance strategy and execution in a dynamic environment

Core Success Measures

• Strength and readiness of succession pipelines for critical roles
• Quality and impact of talent review outcomes
• Improved internal mobility and development of key talent
• Increased leadership accountability for building talent
• Delivery of focused development initiatives linked to business needs
• Stronger organizational capability to support future growth