Talent Development Manager, Group

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield develops and operates a portfolio of sustainable, premium, mixed-use real estate assets in the most dynamic cities in Europe and the United States.

Reinvent Being Together: Driven by our purpose, we are committed to accelerating urban regeneration and rethinking how we live together in cities by creating and operating sustainable and unique places that reinvent togetherness. We imagine differentiated and inspiring experiences at the heart of our destinations, creating new opportunities for exchange and connection between our visitors and brands.

A Sustainable Approach: Sustainability is at the core of our business. As a leader in our sector, we are determined to continue actively contributing to the environmental transition of cities towards carbon neutrality.

Together at URW: The Group's 1,200 employees work together to imagine and operate sustainable destinations that are user-centric and act as catalysts for the vitality of the territories in which they are located.

We are currently looking for our: Talent Development Manager, Group.

🚩What will your day-to-day life be like?

The Group Talent Development Manager is responsible for designing, executing, and continuously improving the Group’s talent development strategy. This includes leading performance processes, driving succession planning, identifying and developing top talent, and ensuring that employees have the tools, feedback, and learning opportunities needed to grow and perform at their best.

The person in this role builds strong trust-based partnerships with regional HR Business Partners, business leaders, and the Group’s senior management to strengthen leadership pipelines, elevate organizational capability, and support a high-performance culture. In addition, the Talent Development Manager fosters meaningful, ongoing connections with our talent to ensure engagement, growth, support, and long‑term development.

Key Projects:

1. People Performance Management

• Lead the annual objective-setting cycle, ensuring quality, clarity, and consistency across teams.
• Manage the full 360º feedback campaign, from design and communication to execution and insights delivery.
• Design, coordinate and facilitate the Annual Review process, including preparation materials, guidance to managers, and Group review and calibration sessions to ensure consistency and fairness.
• Analyze performance data to generate insights that inform development priorities and organizational capability needs.
• Continuously review and improve all performance and talent processes, ensuring they remain relevant, meaningful, user-friendly, and simplified.

2. Group Succession Planning

• Lead the Group’s succession planning cycle, ensuring strong and diverse talent pipelines for critical roles.
• Facilitate calibration sessions with leaders to assess readiness, potential, and development needs.
• Create talent heatmaps, risk analyses, and succession dashboards for senior leadership decision-making.
• Partner with regional HRBPs and managers to design individual development plans (IDPs) for successors and emerging leaders, and support progress of successors and ensure development actions are regularly reviewed and updated.

3. Top Talent Programs & Leadership Development

• Design and roll out the Group’s top talent identification framework, ensuring consistency and objectivity.
• Create, customize, and deploy tailor-made development programs for identified top talent and high-potential employees.
• Design and manage full experience: learning journey, communications, stakeholder alignment, logistics, coaching, etc.
• Continuously evaluate program impact and implement improvements based on feedback and business needs.

🚩Why join us?

• Be at the heart of the excellence of a CAC 40-listed group on a human scale.
• Work with dynamic teams across the Group (in Europe and the US).
• Be surrounded by passionate and exciting people with a bold vision willing to change the way we work.
• Opportunities for professional development and continuing education and trainings.

🚩What are we looking for?

Background

• You have a degree in a top University or Business School, with a specialization in HR or business administration.
• You have at least 5+ years of experience in talent management, leadership development, or similar People roles.
• You have experience managing performance cycles, running 360 feedback processes, delivering talent analytics, and a track record in designing and managing talent programs.

Skills & Competencies

• You have a genuine passion for people and a strong desire to support their growth, providing consistent follow‑up and encouragement to help them succeed.
• You are a strong relationship builder, able to create trust‑based partnerships with stakeholders at all levels.
• You are naturally curious, eager to explore new ideas, challenge existing approaches, and bring innovative solutions to talent and performance processes.
• You have an analytical mindset and are result‑driven, able to interpret data, identify trends, and translate insights into practical actions. Always looking for opportunities to reduce complexity and enhance impact.
• You have solid organization and project management capability, with a clear sense of ownership, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to planning. You enjoy coordinating people and processes, staying conscious of timelines, and ensuring deadlines are met with quality and consistency.
• You bring high autonomy, initiative, and drive, taking ownership of your work and pushing projects forward independently.
• You are detail‑oriented and rigorous, ensuring accuracy, quality, and consistency across all talent processes and deliverables.
• You have strong communication skills, able to convey ideas clearly, confidently, and with impact, and you are comfortable operating in high‑level English in both written and verbal communication.

Please send your resume in English; otherwise, your application cannot be considered.

♦️Our Benefits

Compensation:

Attractive fixed salary over 13 months + Annual performance-based bonus + Profit-sharing scheme.

Transport: Betterway mobility options (100% reimbursement of the Navigo pass or €700 if you choose an electric mobility solution), plus a green mobility offer (fleet of electric bikes).

Health: Excellent health insurance with supplementary coverage included for €1, and life/disability insurance.

Food & Meals: Meal voucher card and/or access to the company restaurant (100% fresh and seasonal ingredients guaranteed).

Paid Leave: 30 days of paid vacation.

Training: Develop your skills through our URW Academy.

Social & Environmental Responsibility

Community Days: 1 mandatory day of volunteering for all employees, with a choice among 4 high‑impact social and/or environmental missions.

Parenthood: A comprehensive parental policy including :

• A partnership with Babilou to provide nursery spots and coaching support
• Possibility to return to work at 80% (4‑day week) with 100% pay during the month following parental leave
• School first‑day leave offered
• Between 6 and 12 days of sick‑child leave

♦️What matters to us

What counts for us is welcoming committed and passionate personalities, able to instil positive energy around them and ready to grow within a large international group. We offer our employees a collaborative, innovative, success-oriented culture that creates unique opportunities for development. We strive for excellence, and our culture encourages the autonomy, innovation, and collective intelligence of our employees. If you are looking for intellectually stimulating and empowering missions, promoting teamwork and daily challenges, do not hesitate to apply!

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield promotes equal opportunities, as well as diversity of profiles, experiences, and skills. We believe that diversity plays an important role in our company’s success, and we are committed to creating an environment that respects, values, celebrates, and makes the best of individual differences. As a signatory to the diversity charter, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield is committed to evaluating each new application without discrimination based on disability, age, gender, origin, religion, sexual orientation, or any other feature protected by law.