Company Description:

Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD), a $6 billion leading global medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems and reagents, is dedicated to improving people’s health throughout the world. BD is focused on improving drug therapy, enhancing the quality and speed of diagnosing infectious diseases, and advancing research and discovery of new drugs and vaccines. The Company’s capabilities are instrumental in combating many of the world’s most pressing diseases. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New Jersey, BD employs approximately 27,000 people in approximately 50 countries throughout the world. The Company serves healthcare institutions, life science researchers, clinical laboratories, industry and the general public.

Job Description:
The VP Talent Management and Learning/Development has the leadership responsibility to articulate and ensure stakeholder support as well as drive effective implementation of the overall strategy for BD’s talent management processes of learning and development (BD University), HR planning/leadership development, career planning and development, talent acquisition, performance management, developmental 360 feedback and coaching. The VP Talent Management and Learning /Development supports and integrates the company’s associate engagement and inclusion/diversity strategies and actions into the integrated talent management efforts. The VP also ensures alignment and integration of these responsibilities and processes with overall BD, business, regional and functional strategies and goals. Serves as a resource and confidant to BD’s Senior Vice President, Human Resources on talent and organizational effectiveness issues.

Qualifications:

• The VP Talent Management and Learning/Development must have 15 or more years of experience leading, creating, and facilitating leadership, learning, succession, performance management, talent acquisition, career development, related management, organizational development processes within a large, complex global organization.

• High levels of resourcefulness, influence/organizational savvy, execution skills (strategy through implementation) as well as executive presence/impact are critical to the success of this individual. The VP must promote strong team interaction across the breadth of BD’s functional and business organization. He/She must be effective at sharing ideas and information with peers and business leaders. As such, the position requires strong relationship management skills.

• The VP Talent Management must exhibit absolute familiarity with the cutting edge of current executive development, succession planning, talent identification, performance management, and executive recruiting strategies. However, it is also critical that this individual balances the strategic with the practical and has the ability to implement and drive execution.

• He/she should have had international experience, or responsibility for a global function. Experience managing and developing a staff is vital. Experience working in a matrix environment where achieving buy-in through relationship building and influence is a critical competency.

• The successful candidate will be of the highest intellectual caliber, a quick learner with excellent educational credentials. This person will be a professional with high executive demeanor and the confidence to represent the company as a key internal leader and external ambassador

• The successful candidate will have prior experience selecting and managing vendors and consulting partners.

• The VP Talent Management Learning and Development must have outstanding oral and written communication skills. This individual should have significant prior experience crafting important internal communications.

• This individual must have unquestionable business and personal integrity and ethical standards.

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