Jedním z přístupů k řízení firmy a lidí, jako nositelů lidského kapitálu, je Řízení podle kompetencí. Tento přístup se stal zdrojem pro zpracování této magisterské diplomové práce. Cílem byl návrh kompetenčního modelu "Manažera vývoje" a jeho využití v procesech řízení kariéry talentů s manažerským potenciálem.Management by Competencies is one of the aproaches of managing a company and people, as human capital bearers. This approch was used as a source for this thesis. The aim was to propose the competency model for the position of development manager and its application in career management processes of talents with managerial potencial. The competency model for "Development manager" was created based on an analyses of a company's internal documents, analyses of an engineering centre environment and activities, which are specified in a job description for this position. This thesis deals with broader context of competency model application. Specifically in connection with career management processes of engineers, who were identified as talents and potecial successors of development managers. In this thesis the career management processes are devided to three partial ones - talent identification, succession planning and career and development planning. There is specified how the competency model applies to each of these partial processes. The output is a specific proposal for career and development plan of a fictive engineering centre employee