Senior Manager - Talent and Performance

About the role

A leading recruitment company in Sri Lanka is recruiting a Senior Manager - Talent and Performance for a leading FMCG company based in Colombo. The role transforms talent practices from transactional recruitment into a data-driven, integrated approach that attracts high-quality talent, accelerates new-hire success, strengthens performance and builds a sustainable leadership pipeline.

Key responsibilities

• Talent attraction: develop and strengthen the Group's Employer Value Proposition and employer brand, design attraction strategies across businesses and disciplines, enhance candidate experience, build talent pipelines for critical and recurring positions, and lead the end-to-end talent acquisition strategy.
• Recruitment transformation: strengthen assessment and selection methods, drive recruitment automation and digitalisation, set up and monitor dashboards on time-to-fill, quality of hire, effectiveness and early attrition, and partner with business leaders to identify workforce needs.
• New-hire success: design and improve onboarding, track new hires, run structured reviews of integration, performance and engagement, and analyse early attrition and probation outcomes.
• Performance management: drive the performance framework, build performance dashboards, hold talent and performance discussions, run performance improvement plans, and use data to spot high performers and risks.
• Talent reviews and succession: set up talent reviews, build talent heat maps, identify high-potential employees, build bench strength, and design succession frameworks for critical and leadership roles.
• Career management and analytics: establish career pathways and internal mobility, integrate career management with performance and workforce planning, build an integrated talent dashboard, and set measurable KPIs across talent processes.

Required profile

• 8-12 years of progressive HR experience with strong exposure to Talent Acquisition, Performance Management and Talent Management.
• Proven experience designing or improving recruitment, onboarding and performance management processes.
• Strong experience partnering with senior business leaders on talent and performance matters.
• Degree in Human Resources Management, Business Management, Psychology or a related discipline.
• Advantageous: exposure to succession planning, talent reviews, career management and high-potential identification; experience in a diversified group, FMCG, manufacturing, services or similar multi-business environment.