Global Career Framework & Skills Lead

About Umicore

Powering the cars of today and tomorrow. Reducing harmful emissions. Giving unique properties to high-end applications. Giving new life to used metals. As a global advanced materials and recycling group, we develop, produce, and recycle materials for a better life.

About Support Functions

A global organisation. It’s not just those in our industrial sites and technical centres that are vital to Umicore’s growth. Across our support functions we ensure that we continue to grow and evolve – whether it’s by making sure our decisions are commercially viable, enhancing our reputation, building new customer relationships or finding the right people who can build on what we’ve already achieved. The variety of our work means we cannot stand still. We need to find new ways to do things, discover new solutions and develop new ideas. Which is where you come in.

Job Summary

The Global Career Framework & Skills Lead is responsible for maintaining, governing, and continuously improving the company’s enterprise-wide career & skills framework, including the taxonomy and ontology. The role ensures that the career framework & its skills function as the strategic enabler of P&O activities; eg workforce planning, talent acquisition, performance & talent management, learning, mobility, succession,…Reports to the VP Global Talent and drives prioritization and adoption with People & Organization and Umicore.

Primary Accountabilities

Career Framework & Skills Governance

• Define and own the governance operating model (decision rights, RACI, standards, controls) for the career framework, job profiles and skills.
• Lead governance forums and cadence (Career Framework Council + working groups) and drive global adoption.
• Own change control: versioning/release management, exception handling, auditability, and compliance for updates.
• Own fine-tuning of taxonomy/ontology and skills inference/adjacency logic with data partners.
• Maintain & future proof skills & career framework
• Run the quality system + KPIs (coverage, freshness, consistency, utilization) and execute a remediation/continuous-improvement loop.

Skills as the engine

• Own and sustain the enterprise-wide Career Framework and skills architecture as a foundational platform for transparent careers and CF-aligned talent processes.
• Ensure integration of skills and role expectations into priority talent processes across the employee lifecycle.
• Build credible career paths and role/skills guidance; used consistently in talent processes and leader/employee conversations.
• Shape the skills technology ecosystem across HR platforms and AI tools; partner with P&O Technology/HRIS.
• Continuously monitor external trends and internal needs to identify emerging capabilities and skill gaps; recommend actions and updates.
• Translate business strategy into a prioritized multi-year roadmap; align stakeholders on scope, sequencing, and investment.

Required Experiences & Skills

Proven experience in one or more of the following:

• Job architecture and enterprise skills frameworks (design, governance, implementation).
• Talent processes (TA, Talent Management, Learning, Mobility/Workforce Planning, Total Rewards) and stakeholder leadership.
• HR Technology/HRIS platforms and ecosystems; partnering with HR Tech and data teams.
• Knowledge of AI, data models, and/or semantic technologies; ability to apply these to skills inference and matching.
• Skills taxonomy/ontology design; skills inference and adjacency logic.
• Systems thinking and architectural mindset; strong governance and operating-model design.
• Project/change management and stakeholder management across regions and functions.
• Data/analytics skills; ability to build and articulate the business value/case.

What we can offer

We aim to lead the way. Not just for our customers, but for our employees too. That is why we strive to create a collaborative environment in which we can all succeed, and a culture through which we can all share ideas, develop our expertise and advance our careers. We engage in building an inclusive work culture that offers equal opportunities for all employees irrespective of their diverse backgrounds. As you would expect from a world-leading organisation, we will also reward your contribution with a competitive salary and benefits. With all this and more, imagine what you could do?