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AstraZeneca

Global pharmaceutical company developing prescription medicines

Talent & Organizational Development Manager - HR

Learning & DevelopmentConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeSeoul, South KoreaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Psychology, Business Administration, Education, or a related discipline.
  • At least 10 years of progressive experience across talent management, organizational development, learning and development, leadership development, culture, employee engagement, change management, or related human resources disciplines.
  • Proven ownership of enterprise-level talent, culture, engagement, or capability agendas in a complex multinational and matrix organization.
  • Demonstrated experience leading talent reviews, succession planning, leadership development, employee listening, and organizational effectiveness interventions from strategy through execution.
  • Strong consulting, facilitation, project and program management, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
  • Ability to use people and program data to diagnose issues, shape recommendations, prioritize investment, and evaluate impact.
  • Business fluency in English and Korean.

Responsibilities

  • Co-create and activate a culture agenda aligned with AstraZeneca values, business priorities, and the desired employee experience in Korea.
  • Lead enterprise-wide culture and behavior-change initiatives, including Speak-Up Culture, Inclusion and Belonging, collaboration, accountability, and ways of working.
  • Diagnose organizational effectiveness opportunities using qualitative and quantitative insights, and design targeted interventions covering operating model, team effectiveness, role clarity, decision rights, and change adoption.
  • Advise leaders on organization development, culture risks, and change implications; facilitate leadership and team interventions that translate culture expectations into observable behaviors.
  • Build governance, communications, leader toolkits, and reinforcement mechanisms to embed change beyond program launch.
  • Own the end-to-end employee listening strategy, including Pulse and engagement surveys, focus groups, targeted listening, analysis, leadership readouts, and action planning.
  • Translate survey and workforce insights into prioritized enterprise and function-level actions, with clear ownership, milestones, and follow-through.
  • Partner with leaders and HR business partners to improve employee experience across key moments that matter, and monitor progress through agreed measures and feedback loops.
  • Connect engagement findings with culture, leadership, inclusion, wellbeing, talent, and organizational effectiveness priorities to address root causes.
  • Support employee-led communities and connect them to business and culture priorities.
  • Lead enterprise capability diagnostics and workforce capability planning across leadership, professional, functional, digital, data, and artificial intelligence-related capabilities.
  • Build multi-year capability roadmaps defining priority audiences, proficiency expectations, learning pathways, delivery approaches, and measures of business impact.
  • Design and deliver scalable development solutions using blended learning, cohort-based programs, experiential assignments, mentoring, coaching, communities of practice, and digital learning.
  • Partner with business and functional leaders to build critical capabilities close to the work and ensure transfer of learning into performance.
  • Create evaluation frameworks covering participation, application, behavior change, capability uplift, and business outcomes, and use insights to improve the portfolio.
  • Lead the annual talent review and succession planning cycle for critical and leadership roles, ensuring quality preparation, robust calibration, clear decisions, and disciplined follow-up.
  • Assess succession strength, readiness, pipeline diversity, retention risk, and development priorities; provide data-driven insights and recommendations to leadership.
  • Design differentiated development plans and acceleration experiences for high-potential and succession talent in partnership with people leaders.
  • Own leadership development strategy and interventions for senior leaders, people managers, and emerging leaders, including assessment, coaching, career development, and team effectiveness.
  • Embed consistent talent standards, governance, tools, and documentation while aligning Korea requirements with regional and global frameworks.
  • Define and manage the Korea learning and development portfolio, focusing resources on material business and capability priorities.
  • Establish governance for learning demand, program selection, vendor management, budget, quality, compliance, communications, and participation.
  • Use data and stakeholder feedback to simplify, integrate, stop, scale, or redesign programs and improve portfolio effectiveness.
  • Facilitate Korea participation in regional and global leadership, talent, development, and mobility programs, including nominations, assessment, selection, deployment, and post-program follow-up.
  • Enable career growth through cross-functional assignments, international exposure, mentoring, project leadership, and internal mobility opportunities.
  • Partner with regional and global stakeholders and people leaders to match development opportunities to business needs, talent readiness, and career aspirations.
  • Integrate employee listening, talent, succession, learning, workforce, and organizational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities and convert them into actionable recommendations.
  • Lead complex, cross-functional projects with clear scope, governance, stakeholder alignment, risk management, change and communication plans, and measurable outcomes.
  • Act as a trusted advisor and constructive challenger to senior stakeholders, balancing strategic perspective with hands-on execution.
  • Manage external partners and vendors, ensuring quality, value, data privacy, and delivery against agreed outcomes.
  • Contribute to the broader human resources agenda and collaborate across human resources disciplines to provide a coherent employee and leader experience.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in life sciences, technology, professional services, or another highly regulated, knowledge-intensive sector.
  • Professional certification or advanced training in organizational development, coaching, change management, talent assessment, psychometrics, learning, or project management.
  • Experience partnering with regional or global centers of excellence and adapting global frameworks to local market needs.
  • Experience with digital learning, people analytics, workforce insights, and artificial intelligence-enabled human resources or capability solutions.

About the Company

AstraZeneca

Global pharmaceutical company developing prescription medicines

AstraZeneca develops and markets prescription medicines and vaccines worldwide, with a focus on oncology, cardiovascular/metabolic, respiratory, and infectious diseases. Its products work by targeting specific biological pathways or cells, using small-molecule therapies, biologics, and vaccines to treat diseases or prevent infections. It differentiates itself through its dual heritage from Sweden and the UK, a broad pipeline, and strong R&D and collaborations that move from discovery to patient access. Its goal is to improve people’s health by discovering, developing, and delivering medicines and vaccines to patients worldwide.

Company size
10,001+
Company stage
IPO
Headquarters
Cambridge, United Kingdom
Founded
1913

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