Vacature: Lead Skills - View vacancy
NN GROUP · The Hague, Netherlands
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As Lead Skills, you will play a pivotal role in transforming NN into a skills-based organisation, ensuring that skills are embedded as a core component of our people strategy. You will be the business owner of the enterprise skills framework, responsible for defining, governing, and embedding skills as a core building block of our workforce planning and talent practices. You will ensure a consistent and future-focused approach to skills across NN, connecting business strategy, workforce needs, and employee development. Working closely with HR Centres of Expertise (possible future product teams), HR Business Partners, Data & Digital, and business stakeholders, you will translate strategic workforce requirements into a scalable skills architecture that enables internal mobility, workforce agility, and sustainable talent development.
What you are going to do
Key Responsibilities:
- Skills Strategy and Governance: Own and evolve NN's enterprise skills framework, maintaining the skills taxonomy, and ensuring alignment with business strategy and workforce priorities
- Skills Integration: Embed skills into key HR processes such as Talent Acquisition, Internal Mobility, Career Development, and Performance Management
- Organisational Transformation: Lead the development and implementation of skills-based organisation strategies and drive change related to skills transformation
- Skills Data and Technology: Define business requirements for skills-related technology solutions and act as the business owner for relevant capabilities within HR technology platforms
What we offer you
NN invests in an inclusive, inspiring work environment and in skills and competences for the future. We match this with employee benefits that are in line with what is needed today and in the future. This way, we offer our employees the opportunity to get the best out of themselves. We offer you:
- Salary between €8,446 and €11,262 (based on 40 hours) depending on your knowledge and experience
- 13th month and holiday allowance are paid with your monthly salary
- 27 days of annual leave for a 5-day working week and three Diversity Days
- A modern pension administered by BeFrank
- Plenty of training and learning opportunities
- NS Business Card second class, which gives you unlimited travel, including private travel. Do you prefer to travel using your own transport? Then you can claim the kilometres travelled
- Allowances for setting up your home office and for internet use
Who you are
- You hold a Master’s degree in a relevant field
- You have extensive experience in leading workforce transformation initiatives within complex international organisations
- You possess deep expertise in designing and implementing skills frameworks and taxonomies that align with business strategies and enhance talent management
- You excel in stakeholder management, effectively engaging diverse teams to drive the adoption of skills-based practices across HR processes
- With strong analytical skills, you translate strategic workforce needs into practical frameworks, ensuring alignment with emerging labour market trends
- You have experience working in an international skills-based organisation or have worked as a consultant implementing skills-based practices for international organisations
- Exceptional communication and presentation skills, fluent in English (Dutch proficiency is a plus)
Who you will work with
In your role, you will collaborate closely with various stakeholders across the organisation to drive the skills-based transformation. You will partner with HR Centres of Expertise and Product Teams to ensure the effective integration of skills into all HR processes, from talent acquisition to career development and succession planning.
Working alongside HR Business Partners, you will align skills frameworks with workforce planning and talent management strategies, ensuring that the organisation’s workforce is equipped to meet current and future demands. Additionally, you will engage with Data & Digital teams to leverage insights and technology solutions that enhance skills governance and management.
Your interactions will also extend to business leaders across NN, where you will facilitate discussions on skills integration and drive commitment to the organisation’s skills-based initiatives. By fostering these partnerships, you will play a crucial role in embedding a culture of skills development and agility throughout the organisation.
Any questions?
If you have any questions about the job, you can reach out to Claudia Slavenburg, Head of HR Strategy & Change via claudia.slavenburg@nn-group.com or Michele Borsje, Principal Talent Acquisition Specialist via michele.borsje@nn-group.com.
Stel je vraag aan Michèle Borsjé Bij NN geloven we dat onze kracht ligt in het omarmen van de volledige diversiteit van de mensheid. We erkennen en waarderen ieders uniciteit en bijdrage, wat ons in staat stelt om te groeien: als individu, als team en als organisatie.
Diversiteit, Gelijkheid en Inclusie zijn verankerd in onze cultuur, die wordt geleid door onze kernwaarden: care, clear en commit. Deze waarden helpen ons om een werkomgeving te creëren waarin iedereen zich welkom, gerespecteerd en trots voelt om deel van uit te maken.
Be you. You have our support.
Ben je net zo enthousiast?
Je wordt doorgestuurd naar NN's recruitment systeem, Workday, waar je kunt solliciteren en jouw sollicitatie kunt beheren.
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Michèle Borsjé
Recruiter
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Wat gebeurt er na je sollicitatie?
1 Je solliciteert
Jouw CV en motivatie worden door de Talent Acquisition Specialist en manager bekeken. Je ontvangt een reactie binnen twee weken.
2 Interview(s) en online assessment
We streven ernaar binnen een week het eerste gesprek in te plannen. Voorafgaand aan je tweede gesprek vragen we je een online assessment te maken.
3 Aanbod
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4 Welkom bij NN
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