Director, Talent & Performance Management

Belong. Believe. Be You. Belden.

Propel your career surrounded by a diverse team of innovative, goal-oriented individuals who are pursuing the next generation of connectivity solutions. At Belden, you’ll participate in work that will challenge you and position you to excel. You’ll collaborate with colleagues from around the world, gaining exposure to a broad base of expertise and perspectives.

Together, we’ll continue on a journey of innovation, creating a connected world and paving the way for automation. Join us and let’s build the future.

The Director, Talent & Performance Management is a strategic HR leader responsible for driving Belden’s global talent strategy, ensuring our workforce and leadership pipeline are aligned with business needs. This role leads initiatives in succession planning, internal mobility, performance enablement, high-potential development, career frameworks, and strategic workforce planning. Partnering closely with senior business leaders and HR peers, this leader will create the processes and programs that strengthen leadership capability, enable internal career growth, and sustain a high-performance culture.  Preferred location is greater Indianapolis or Chicago, but we're open to remote candidate.

Responsibilities:

Strategic Talent Management

• Lead strategic workforce planning to align workforce capabilities with current and future business strategy.
• Design and govern Belden’s enterprise-wide talent strategy and policies, ensuring alignment with organizational goals.
• Drive succession planning and talent reviews to ensure a strong and diverse pipeline of future-ready leaders.

Performance & Career Enablement

• Oversee the global performance management cycle, ensuring consistency, fairness, and meaningful outcomes.
• Build and evolve career frameworks and competency models that enable career progression and talent mobility.
• Drive initiatives that support internal mobility and create clear pathways for employees to grow within Belden.

Leadership & High-Potential Development

• Lead efforts to identify, assess, and accelerate development of high-potential employees at all levels.
• Ensure individual Career Development Plans and succession plans are actively managed and executed.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Organizational Development, Business Administration, or related field; Master’s degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including significant experience in talent management, workforce planning, and performance management.
• Proven ability to influence and partner with executives and senior leaders across functions.
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and executive presence skills.

Applicants can expect a base compensation range of $155,000 - $225,000 annually, plus benefits and additional incentives based on the level of the role.  This is the reasonable estimate that Belden believes it might pay for this job based on applicable circumstances at the time of posting. Belden may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range as permitted by law, and commensurate with the applicant’s experience, qualifications, and geographical location. 

Belden also offers hybrid and remote work practices where feasible and provides employees with benefits that could include health/dental/vision, long term/short term disability, life insurance, HSA/FSA, matching retirement plans, paid vacation, parental leave, employee stock purchase plan, paid leave for volunteer work in your community, training opportunities, professional talent management and succession planning, corporate health well-being initiatives and a work culture which includes commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability!

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Let’s Write the Next 100 Years Together.
Join a global community striving to improve connectivity and security. The work we’re doing puts our people on the front lines of impacting lives and shaping the future. Propel your story of innovation by helping Belden write the next chapter in ours. Shape your future at Belden.

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These statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work involved for this job. It is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of this job.