Talent Mapping & Succession Consultant
VEON
Full-time
On-site
Dubai, 03
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VEON is seeking a Talent Mapping & Succession Consultant part-time onsite in Dubai to strengthen succession management for critical leadership roles. You will build succession benches, contribute to quarterly updates with ready-now and emerging successors, and provide market mobility insights. The ideal candidate has 5-7 years of executive search research at a top firm, solid research methodology, active candidate networking, and the ability to translate insights into decision-ready succession plans while presenting to senior stakeholders. Proficiency with AI tools for sourcing, data quality, confidentiality, and experience in telecom or frontier markets is preferred. To apply, tailor your resume to highlight pipeline development, governance, measurable outcomes, and stakeholder storytelling.
VEON is a Nasdaq-listed global digital operator that serves more than 150 million customers with connectivity and about 120 million monthly active users with digital services in some of the world’s most exciting frontier markets. Operating across 5 countries that are home to nearly 520 million people, in other words more than 6% of the world’s population, VEON transforms lives through technology-driven services that empower individuals and drive economic growth.
With VEON’s Digital Operator 1440 vision and strategy, VEON Group companies redefine the engagement that telecom operators have with their customers, providing the best digital experience to customers up to 1440 minutes in a day. We transform not only the daily experience of the final users, but also support the growth of enterprises and industries as a whole, using cutting-edge technologies in AI, big-data and cloud services to serve our business customers.
This is all underpinned by a commitment to sustainability, ensuring VEON’s operations are run safely and ethically while fostering digital entrepreneurship and greater digital skills and literacy in the communities in which VEON operates. VEON’s values-based approach works to strengthen trust by building a responsible and sustainable business that benefits customers, employees, communities, and shareholders.
VEON’s international leadership team is drawn from experienced executives from around the world and has been led by CEO Kaan Terzioğlu since July 2021.
Context & Purpose of the Role
- VEON is strengthening its succession management capability for critical and leadership roles. This position, Talent Mapping & Succession Consultant (part time), is a pivotal internal role part of talent management practice that builds, maintains, and presents the external and internal succession bench for VEON’s most critical roles.
- This role part of team will support to identify high‑quality, succession‑ready external candidates who can be integrated into VEON’s quarterly succession discussions and longer‑term talent pipelines.
Succession Updates
- A consolidated view of internal and external succession pipelines
- “Ready‑now” and “emerging” successors for defined list of critical roles
- Updates on external market talent: mobility, availability, affordability, competitor movements
- Clear evidence of progress vs the prior quarter:
- Growth in depth of pipelines
- Improved quality assessments
- Movement of candidates toward readiness
- Risks, gaps and recommendations requiring attention
- Development progress of identified successors
- A decision‑ready, data‑accurate succession database
Your research input will feed specifically into the External Bench portion, ensuring VEON has visibility beyond its internal talent.
Role Mandate
- At least 5-7 years of executive search research experience at a top‑tier firm
- Strong foundation in executive research methodology
- Strong ability to network and maintain active contact with shortlisted pipeline candidates
- Ability to translate research into succession‑ready insights
- Confidence presenting quarterly updates to senior stakeholders
- Comfort using AI tools for search, sourcing, candidate identification, and market intelligence
- High judgment, confidentiality, and data‑quality standards
- Experience with critical leadership roles across telecom, digital, tech in frontier markets (preferred)
Do you want to be part of a team that serves over 150 million customers across 5 dynamic markets? Do you want to pioneer new experiences for hundreds of millions in emerging economies? Do you feel at home working in a truly diverse and inclusive environment? We are VEON, a global digital operator and we scale new heights never thought possible. Our DE&I Vision is: Creating an Inclusive World for All – Inside and Beyond VEON We aspire to create an Inclusive world for all by providing Equal voice and representation, driving growth with diverse and inclusive teams, that create products that serve Diverse needs of our customers across all dimensions of life from connectivity to digital financial inclusion, education, health and entertainment, and creating value for our people, our partners, and communities.