Senior Specialist, Leadership & Talent
Grab
Company Description
About Grab and Our Workplace
Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.
Job Description
Get to Know the Team
The People and Organisation Development team's (POD) mission is to fuel Grab's success by creating an environment where our people can learn, grow, and do their best work. We're inspired by optimizing Grab's "health" – think of us as the coaches, strategists, and designers dedicated to empowering Grabbers to make a real impact on our users and communities.
We enable the right mindsets, skills, and systems to achieve our bold ambitions through:
- Learning and Inclusion: Unlocking potential through continuous learning, and fostering a culture of inclusion where every Grabber can drive real impact and grow.
- Leadership and Talent: Developing strong, visionary leaders who inspire and empower their teams, ensuring Grab has the talent it needs to succeed.
- Performance and Culture: Igniting Grabber performance by fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, and high performance, grounded in Grab's 4H values.
Get to Know the Role
This is a regional, individual contributor role, and you will report to the Head of Leadership & Talent based onsite in our Kuala Lumpur office. As a Senior Specialist in the Leadership & Talent team, your work will directly contribute to:
- Develop our leaders with the right skills and mindsets to drive high performance and sustainable growth
- Build a skills-based talent system that empowers Grabbers and teams to grow their skills and to bring impact through our mission.
The Critical Tasks You Will Perform
- Collaborate with diverse stakeholders across POD and other teams to prioritise and problem solve leadership and talent challenges.
- Design and implement high impact leadership and talent initiatives with guidance, including structured leadership development journeys and interventions to develop future ready leaders.
Qualifications
What Essential Skills You Will Need
- You will require critical skills in:
- Adaptive execution: drive end-to-end execution independently, experiment and improve quickly based on feedback.
- Facilitating change: learn and adapt through challenges and changes, challenge the status quo in favour of better ways to deliver impact, and develop solutions while navigating constraints.
- Collaboration with diverse stakeholders: engage stakeholders at different levels to drive execution, and influence them by sharing relevant data/ information and a well-reasoned point of view.
- Communication: convey ideas and information in a clear and structured manner – both verbally and in writing.
- Self mastery: strong ownership and responsibility, able to look for solutions and ask for help when needed.
- 5+ years of experience in:
- Executing and scaling impactful leadership and talent programmes
- Supporting complex projects
- Building and applying skills frameworks
- Enabling behaviour/ culture change in a diverse organisation
Additional Information
Life at Grab
We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:
- We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.
- With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.
- Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave, and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave
- We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.
- Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours
What We Stand For at Grab
We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that enables diverse Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. As an equal opportunity employer, we consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, age, gender identity, sexual orientation, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.
