Director, Talent Management & Development

At Landis+Gyr, we're helping shape the future of energy—making it more intelligent, resilient, and sustainable.

As a global energy technology leader, we're accelerating the energy evolution through purposeful innovation and trusted partnerships. Trusted by more than 2,000 utilities worldwide, our intelligent solutions connect devices, data, and decisions across the grid, helping customers modernize infrastructure, optimize operations, and deliver energy that is more reliable, resilient, accessible, safe, and sustainable.

Behind every solution is a team of approximately 3,300 employees across more than 40 countries who are passionate about solving complex challenges, driving innovation, and making a meaningful impact for our utility customers and the communities they serve.

Join Team Green and help shape the future of intelligent energy.

Position Summary The Director, Talent Management & Development will lead the development and implementation of an integrated enterprise strategy for talent management, employee development, and organizational capability. Reporting to the Chief People Officer, this role will help ensure Landis+Gyr has the talent, skills, leadership capacity, and workforce readiness required to execute its business strategy and support future growth.

This is a hands-on role requiring both strategy and execution. Initially, the role will personally lead the design and implementation of core talent and learning practices while working through HR Business Partners, business leaders, functional experts, and external partners. This role is also expected to build and lead a lean Talent Management and Development team.

Key Responsibilities Develop and implement an integrated enterprise talent and learning strategy aligned with business priorities, future capability requirements, and the company’s evolving operating model.

Build a connected talent framework that brings together performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, career development, internal mobility, workforce planning, and learning.

Lead enterprise talent reviews, calibration, and succession planning for critical leadership and business-critical roles, creating greater visibility into talent strength, successor readiness, capability gaps, retention risk, and organizational exposure.

Partner with senior leaders and HR Business Partners to translate talent insights into meaningful actions, including development, movement, retention, knowledge transfer, and selective external hiring.

Build and implement an enterprise learning strategy addressing professional, functional, technical, managerial, leadership, and future-skill development across the organization.

Establish a disciplined approach to identifying capability needs and converting them into prioritized learning roadmaps, curricula, development pathways, academies, and targeted interventions.

Partner with functional leaders and subject-matter experts to develop scalable learning solutions while maintaining clear business ownership for technical and functional capability.

Lead the evolution of performance management and strengthen manager capability in goal setting, feedback, coaching, development planning, talent differentiation, and performance accountability.

Build career-development and internal-mobility practices that give employees greater visibility into growth opportunities, required capabilities, and potential career paths across the organization.

Define the leadership and management capabilities required for future success and build targeted development solutions for new managers, experienced people leaders, directors, senior leaders, and succession candidates.

Establish talent and learning measures that provide leaders with actionable insight into…