Career & Mobility Lead

Swiss Re seeks a Senior Career & Mobility Lead in Zürich to shape enterprise career frameworks and internal mobility strategies. This hybrid role focuses on talent development, skills-based practices, and workforce analytics.

Reporting to the Head of Learning & Mobility, this high-impact, cross-functional position focuses on how colleagues grow, move, and thrive across the organization. The role drives enterprise-wide talent strategies, ensuring equitable access to opportunities while supporting the evolving capability needs of the business.

Responsibilities

• Design and refine scalable career frameworks, pathways, and progression models to shape the enterprise career philosophy.
• Lead the internal mobility strategy and governance, embedding practices that encourage talent sharing across teams.
• Utilize talent marketplace technologies, skills data, and career platforms to enhance the visibility of internal opportunities.
• Develop intuitive career resources, toolkits, and materials to enable managers and support employee growth.
• Ensure career frameworks and mobility practices promote equitable access to opportunities for diverse career journeys.
• Collaborate with business leaders to identify capability gaps, facilitate governance forums, and advocate for an enterprise talent mindset.
• Leverage workforce analytics and mobility data to track success, identify barriers, and continuously improve career and mobility outcomes.

Requirements

• Significant experience in Talent Management, Career Development, Organizational Development, or Internal Mobility within complex, global organizations.
• Proven track record designing and implementing enterprise-wide talent or mobility strategies with measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical capability with experience using workforce data and insights to influence senior stakeholders and drive continuous improvement.
• Excellent communication and facilitation skills, with demonstrated ability to manage and influence across complex, matrixed stakeholder environments.
• Deep understanding of skills-based talent practices, workforce transformation, and future capability building.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with talent marketplace technologies, career architecture tools, and skills frameworks.
• Experience designing short-term mobility programs, gig-based assignments, or talent sharing initiatives.
• Background in change management or organizational design.
• Experience working in globally distributed, matrixed organizations.
• Passion for inclusion and equity in career practices and talent systems.

What the company offers

• Performance-based annual bonus.
• Hybrid work model with at least three days per week in the office.

About the company

Swiss Re is dedicated to enabling colleagues to build future-ready careers while supporting the evolving capability needs of the business. The team is collaborative and forward-thinking, partnering closely with business leaders and People Analytics. The company encourages experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break to apply.

• Collaborative and forward-thinking team that partners closely with business leaders and People Analytics.
• Dedicated to enabling colleagues to build future-ready careers while supporting the evolving capability needs of the business.
• Encourages experienced professionals returning to the workforce after a career break to apply.