Head of Talent & Culture

JOB DESCRIPTION

Strategic Role Overview

Talent Development & Learning is the Global Value Team that owns how Nokia identifies, develops, and leads its people, including culture and leadership. As the Talent Lead, you will hold the frame for talent, succession, performance, culture, and learning end-to-end, designing once on behalf of many rather than servicing each business group separately. Your role will involve governing a focused and deliberately lean global program catalogue, so that Nokia offers standard principles rather than a standard service everywhere and concentrates investment on a few interventions that create the greatest enterprise value.

You will simplify a landscape of programs, frameworks, and practices accumulated over time, removing duplication and complexity rather than carrying it forward. Increasingly, you will design talent and development approaches that can be enabled by data, AI, technology, leaders, and employees themselves, allowing the Global Value Team to remain focused on enterprise strategy, architecture, governance, and the capabilities that differentiate Nokia.

Core Purpose

To own the strategy, framework, and governance for how Nokia develops its talent and its leaders, defining the processes the company runs rather than executing them for each unit. You will be accountable for what enters the global catalogue and what Nokia stops offering, continually simplifying the portfolio and challenging whether centrally provided programs remain the best answer.

You will create simple, scalable and increasingly AI-enabled frameworks that allow leaders, employees, and businesses to take greater ownership of talent and development, while maintaining the enterprise standards Nokia needs. Success means no more programs, but fewer, higher-impact interventions that are easier to navigate, easier to execute, and capable of reaching Nokia at scale.