Director of Talent Development

Company Description foodpanda is part of the Delivery Hero Group, the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience—fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 65 countries worldwide. Headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. Job Description Want to be a Hero? Join one of the leading global online food ordering and delivery marketplaces! We are looking for a Talent Development Director to build and own the talent agenda across three of our most iconic brands: foodpanda, foodora, and Yemeksepeti encompassing 17 markets in APAC and Europe. Over the next 12-18 months, you will design the talent density, performance, engagement and DE&I systems that turn our newly merged organization into a genuinely high-performance culture — acting as a core strategic partner to regional leadership and global People & Culture. Your Mission Formulate and execute a multi-market Talent Density Strategy, partnering with C-suite executives and People Partners to close critical talent gaps and build pipelines for key roles. Lead the evolution of continuous performance management framework and its rollout across regions, training and coaching managers on high-quality performance conversations and managing underperformance. Architect and own the employee engagement strategy — pulse surveys, eNPS, action-planning — turning sentiment data into targeted retention interventions with regional leadership. Design and deploy scalable, digital-first learning and leadership development programs, and manage the L&D vendor relationships, LMS platform, and budget for maximum ROI. Define and embed the regional DE&I roadmap into hiring, talent programs, and succession pipelines, with metrics and dashboards that hold leadership accountable. Act as a core strategic partner to regional leadership and global People & Culture teams while leading a lean, distributed Talent Development team. Support Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) and drive initiatives that build psychological safety and cross-cultural collaboration across a complex, 17-market matrix. Your heroic skills 12+ years of progressive People & Culture experience, including 3+ years in a senior talent development, organizational development, or talent management leadership role within high-growth tech, Q-commerce, or fast-paced consumer platforms. A track record of success in regional or global roles across APAC and/or Europe, navigating complex matrix organizations across multiple geographies and cultures. Deep functional expertise across talent management, modern performance management, engagement methodologies, capability mapping, and DE&I practices. Strong data and business acumen — able to translate complex people metrics into strategy and present business cases to senior executives. Demonstrated experience leading large-scale change management, post-merger integration, or structural organizational shifts. Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's or certifications like ICF, SHRM-SCP, or CIPD preferred). Who We Are As the world’s pioneering local delivery platform, our mission is to deliver an amazing experience, fast, easy, and to your door. We operate in around 70 countries worldwide, powered by tech, designed by people. As one of Europe’s largest tech platforms, headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Delivery Hero has been listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017 and is part of the MDAX stock market index. We enable creative minds to deliver solutions that create impact within our ecosystem. We move fast, take action and adapt. No matter where you're from or what you believe in, we build, we deliver, we lead. We are Delivery Hero. We believe diversity and inclusion are key to creating not only an exciting product, but also an amazing customer and employee experience. Fostering this starts with hiring - therefore we do not discriminate on the basis of racial identities, religious beliefs, color, national origin, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, age, marital or disability statuses, or any other aspect that makes you, you. We encourage you to let us know if you need any accommodations or specific accessibility support to ensure a smooth interview experience—just include it in your application. You're welcome to share your pronouns (he/she/they) right from the start so we can address you respectfully from our first contact. Qualifications Your heroic skills 12+ years of progressive People & Culture experience, including 3+ years in a senior talent development, organizational development, or talent management leadership role within high-growth tech, Q-commerce, or fast-paced consumer platforms. A track record of success in regional or global roles across APAC and/or Europe, navigating complex matrix organizations across multiple geographies and cultures. Deep functional expertise across talent management, modern performance management, engagement methodologies, capability mapping, and DE&I practices. Strong data and business acumen — able to translate complex people metrics into strategy and present business cases to senior executives. Demonstrated experience leading large-scale change management, post-merger integration, or structural organizational shifts. Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's or certifications like ICF, SHRM-SCP, or CIPD preferred).