Senior Talent Manager
Job title: Senior Manager, Talent
Team Talent, Performance & Culture
Location: London, Hybrid
Term 6 months
No. Direct Reports 7
Pay Rate: £600 per day Inside IR35
Our Client
Our client was the world's first telco and our heritage in the sector is unrivalled. As home to several of the UK's most recognised and cherished brands.
Over the next two years, our client will complete the UK's largest and most successful digital infrastructure project – connecting more than 25 million premises to full fibre broadband. Together with our heavy investment in 5G, our client play a central role in revolutionising how people connect with each other.
The change on the scale we will all experience in the coming years is unprecedented. Our client is committed to being the driving force behind improving connectivity for millions and there has never been a more exciting time to join a company and leadership team with the skills, experience, creativity, and passion to take this company into a new era.
Why this job matters
The Senior Manager, Talent plays a crucial role in shaping the Talent Strategy across the company, designing and owning the Talent Development and Talent Management portfolio.
What you'll be doing – your accountabilities
* Advises and supports the Talent, Performance & Culture Director in setting the Talent Strategy, and defines the Talent Development and Talent Management principles, frameworks, approaches and programs that will deliver the expected Talent outcomes, looking holistically across career levels, brands, geography, personas and professions.
* Develops and maintains Talent frameworks and tools that identify and develop talent in the Organisation, to drive strategic talent and capability outcome.
* Develops specific framework from identification of best talents for critical roles and owns the definition and identification of critical roles, partnering with our People & Culture (P&C) colleagues.
* Collaborates with other COE's to develop and implement effective attraction and retention strategies to attract, develop, engage and retain top talent.
* Collaborates with Learning & Capability colleagues to ensure alignment of learning programmes with desired strategic talent outcomes.
* Develop and maintain a talent pipeline for key positions.
* Implement succession planning strategies to ensure leadership continuity.
* Defines and clearly articulates business case for the approach and frameworks that deliver meaningful value to the and is anchored in the business strategy and aligns talent management strategies with the organization's goals and objectives.
* Owns the Talent Management product portfolio, ensuring coherence and consistency of products within their portfolio and the broader P&C function, alignment with the our clients' goals, and overall quality assurance.
* Drives the design, development, management and ongoing maintenance Talent Management products and programs within the organization, owning product definition through to development and deployment, leading a delivery team of specialists and/or professionals throughout the product lifecycle.
* Is responsible for the delivery team vision, defining and prioritising requirements in delivery team's backlog, backlog management and day-to-day priorities, and approving items as completed. Reviews and accept completed work, ensuring it meets defined criteria and quality standards and is compliant.
* Ensures product owners and delivery team members are allocated strategically and in line with the portfolio prioritisation for each quarter, ensuring value flow from existing products.
* Measures, monitors and analyses the outcomes and impact of Talent initiatives and programmes, as well as external data and workforce trends, fostering data-driven decision making and insight.
* Keeps up to date with state of the art approaches to Talent Management and succession planning, benchmarking against external best practice and identifying and introducing improvements and new ways of working to maximise effectiveness and return on investment.
* Recommends sourcing strategy if relevant and works collaboratively with our managed service to shape our supplier portfolio and catalogue, maximising value through simplification.
* Works with relevant stakeholder to define the companies wide assessment methodology for hiring and talent identification or specific learning and Capability solutions to drive strategic talent outcomes.
The skills you'll need to succeed
* Talent Management: Inclusively identifies, develops, and retains talented employees to support the effectiveness of the organisation. Facilitating activities and opportunities that get the best out of talented employees.
* Leadership Development: Helps employees gain and develop leadership competencies and prepares them for management and leadership roles within an organisation.
* Talent Review: Plans, prepares and facilitates a talent review program in which leaders review employees' strengths, development areas, and potential career trajectories.
* Talent Mobility: Monitors and improves mobility processes within an organisation, while empowering employees' development and improving satisfaction.
* Commercial acumen: Can clearly articulate the current business performance and leverage the people levers to enhance performance or productivity
* Business case development: Is able to develop a clear business case that outlines the context, insight, the proposal and a method to evaluate the impact of the intervention
* Storytelling: Leveraging data and insights to drive business outcomes.
* Data Analysis: Collects and interprets data in order to uncover patterns and trends.
* Agile Methodologies: Manages projects by dividing tasks into short phases of work (known as sprints) and frequently reassess and adapt plans.
* Project/Programme Management: Handles a project or portfolio of projects as they progress through the typical stages of the project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution and closure.
* Stakeholder Management: Organises, monitors and improves relationships with stakeholders.
* Relationship Building: Connects with others and forming positive relationships.
* Data Analysis: Collects and interprets data in order to uncover patterns and trends.
* Continuous Improvement: Continuously thrives to improve products, services, or processes.
* Risk Management: Identifies, evaluates and manages risks by developing and implementing strategies, frameworks, policies, procedures and practices.