Senior Manager - Talent Management and Leadership Development

Senior Manager - Talent Management and Leadership Development

Location: Hybrid with easy access to London, Manchester or Northamptonshire

Salary: £90-125,000 + bonus + benefits + career opportunities

Our global market leading Client is seeking an exemplary individual to join their UK and Ireland HR team to lead Talent Management, Succession planning, Leadership Development, Talent development, Apprenticeships and Early Careers development agenda for the UK, Ireland and an expanding European footprint. You will be a Talent Management Leader with progressive experience gained in the FMCG, Retail, Hospitality, manufacturing or logistics sector.

Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will strategically partner with the Executive and Senior Leadership Teams to ensure proper alignment of an accountable, high-performing, and values-driven culture to actively anticipate, plan for, and address talent and culture needs of the organisation.

You will be responsible for owning and creating the Talent Management & Talent Development philosophy, roadmap, and delivering against core initiatives including Talent Reviews, Succession Planning, Talent Development, and Change Management Early careers activity. In this role you will provide tools, resources and strategic consultation to the broader HR community and executive leadership.

The ideal candidate will have a proven record in driving a talent management and Talent Development strategy in a dynamic, ever-changing environment where influence drives results.

The role:

Talent Management- Leads, develops, and executes the overall talent management strategy that drives engagement, succession planning and retention while delivering a clear and scalable approach to supporting leaders across the business. Monitors relevant metrics and KPIs to proactively diagnose and address key talent trends across the organisation

Professional & Leadership Development - Further develop the human capital of the organisation through competency development, career-path planning, targeted learning strategies and developmental assignments that prepare individuals to achieve their maximum potential.

People Leadership - Lead, motivate, and encourage the Talent team. As a member of the HRLT, engages and motivates the broader People and Communications team across the UK and Ireland. Define People/HR goals and objectives that align with and support the strategic and operational goals of the organisation.

Developing and managing the Talent Management and Talent Development roadmap and portfolio of work.

Creating meaningful and measurable development opportunities form early careers to executive team members

Establishing and owning executive talent & succession readout cadence, including CEO level readouts creating executive coaching programmes with external professionals

Establishing & maintaining cross-functional talent review process.

Providing professional expertise and support in the design, development and implementation of the talent review process that is required to achieve business goals and results in the creation of an internal bench of top talent.

Collecting, analysing and maintaining data gathered to inform targeted development (e.g., succession planning).

Collecting and coordinating aggregate data for talent pool creation; translating data into insights through data analysis that drives deliberate action plans at the appropriate levels.

Successfully manage and drive complex projects through the full project management lifecycle as applicable.

Closely partner with HR and business leaders to define strategic talent management and development objectives that support business priorities. Lead and drive these objectives in partnership, leveraging data and analytics.

Execute end-to-end delivery of annual talent processes (succession planning, promotion and performance development),

Consult with HRBP’s and business leaders, to diagnose people and organisational gaps and identify ongoing training and development needs for senior levels within the business.

Design and facilitate development interventions for teams and individuals including senior level offsites utilising available external partners

Coach individuals to improve performance, using a variety of tools such as MBTI, Hogan Development Survey and Interpersonal Leadership Styles and relevant coaching techniques.

Source and create great relationships with external partners

Create a high performing team

The person:

Degree in Human Resources or Business Management; master’s degree in business/organisational development is strongly preferred

Industry experience ideally retail, hospitality, FMCG, manufacturing, logistics or management consultancy

Broad HR experience including a specialist talent management, talent development, organisational development, program and performance management.

Experience designing, developing and supporting organisation-wide talent management programs that cover performance management, talent development, leadership development, coaching, succession planning, data analytics and relationship management.

Experience with talent management and learning & development creating innovative measurable programmes

Intellectual rigour and curiosity

Proven experience working end-to-end talent solutions

Demonstrated experience working in a fast-paced work environment and delivering results in a cross-functional team setting

Ability to influence stakeholders in written and oral communication

Executive-level presentation skills

Autonomous and self-driven - ability to work with all levels of the organisation

Demonstrated experience influencing senior leaders.

Professional, resourceful, and action-oriented.

High energy, disciplined, and focused.

Having a robust understanding of and ability to fully utilise the portfolio of PM tools and documents such as: charters, kick-off meetings, issues logs, project plans, RACIs and more.

Experience in designing and delivering development interventions