Are you passionate about shaping the future of people and how they can have impact on organizational success? We are looking for a forward-thinking Head of People & Organizational Development in Zurich to build a future-ready organization by redefining how we develop talent, leaders, and teams., , This role goes beyond traditional Learning & Development. You will shape organizational development through strategic and conceptual initiatives, with a strong focus on performance management, leadership and transformation – ensuring the organization continuously evolves and delivers sustainable impact

What would your role be?

• Define and execute a modern People Development strategy aligned with business priorities and model, shape our culture and performance model through innovation and implement accordingly, enable a shift toward a skills-based organization with clear capability frameworks that are future-proof, diagnose organizational needs and identify high-impact levers across performance, leadership, and ways of working
• Evolve and modernize the performance management framework to drive continuous feedback and development, integrate performance, learning, and career progression / promotion into a coherent growth system, enable managers to lead high-quality performance and development conversations, support the shift from annual reviews to continuous, growth-oriented performance practices, use data and insights to identify performance trends and capability gaps, ensure performance management reinforces a high-performance, feedback-driven culture
• Lead the development of AI-enabled learning ecosystems (e.g., personalized learning, adaptive content, learning copilots), identify and embed AI as a core capability across the workforce, leverage data and analytics to continuously improve learning impact
• AI-Enhanced Learning & Future Skills
• Define the strategic and conceptual POD agenda for transformation, identifying key needs in leadership, capabilities, culture, and ways of working, translate strategic priorities into structured development content and initiatives, connect all aspects of the HR lifecycle and harmonize these based on the POD principles
• Design and deliver impactful leadership and development journeys that continuously build on different managerial levels and are in line with our values and key competences, act as a trusted advisor to senior leaders, providing direct coaching and facilitating workshops, offsites, influence mindset and introduce a life-long learning setup, drive organizational transformation by shaping leadership behavior, enabling new ways of working, and is directly link to the business goals

What are we looking for?

• Extensive experience in a leading business role and in leading people
• Strong track record in facilitation, moderation, and hands-on workshop delivery
• Proven ability to coach leaders and senior stakeholders
• Experience designing and implementing modern, scalable learning ecosystems
• Solid understanding of AI in learning and workforce transformation (practical application preferred)
• Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
• Excellent communication, presence, and influencing skills

What do we offer?

• Top Zurich location with collaboration spaces and free lunch
• Agile environment in how we think, the way we work and our trust for each other
• Lots of special perks, including home office possibility up to 20%
• Flat hierarchy with collaboration at all levels
• Campus feeling and a collaborative spirit
• We are looking for talented people, not just a CV that ticks all the boxes. Even if you do not have absolutely everything we have asked for, if this role sounds like a good fit for you, we encourage you to apply

At Vontobel, you are building better futures for our clients and society, as well as for yourself. As a family-owned and publicly listed company with over 2,000 professionals based in 28 locations globally and headquartered in Zurich, we’re committed to long-term thinking and sustainability

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