Leadership, Talent and Performance Partner (12 Month Contract)

About the Role

We have a maternity cover opportunity for someone to join our Leadership, Learning & Talent team as a Leadership, Talent and Performance Partner to support us to achieve our ambitious culture. The purpose of the role is to monitor and embed purposeful actions that drive a high performing, consistent and engaging colleague experience in relation to performance management, leadership and talent. You'll be recognised as the centre of expertise for matters relating to performance management, leadership and talent development, collaborating with the wider Leadership, Learning and Talent team of Learning Partners and Learning Solutions Designers to ensure that the colleague experience is joined up.

You will contribute to the design and delivery of a programme of activity to support leaders and colleagues in aligning performance management, and leadership development approaches to the organisation’s strategy. This will include providing expertise and consultancy support on these areas of responsibility to leaders and colleagues across the business.

You will play an active role towards managing our people risk by conducting regular performance data analysis, co-ordinating quality checks, and conducting MI reporting to provide an accurate picture of our organisation-wide performance trends and leadership development needs. You’ll work in collaboration with our Reward team to ensure alignment of our annual cycle of performance management practices with Reward policies.

About you

You will have experience as a subject matter expert in Performance Management and development approaches that support leaders and colleagues to deliver our Ambitious Culture. You’ll also have broad experience as a subject matter expert in Leadership Development and Talent Management. You’ll have learning design and facilitation experience so you can create tools and resources and facilitate interactive workshops or briefings that support both colleagues and leaders with performance management and talent development.

You'll proactively identify trends and analyze data, make recommendations, implement and embed initiatives that help us reach for better at all levels across our performance and leadership agenda. You’ll have the drive and ability to deliver our performance and leadership priorities as part of a well-established, high performing team, with the ability to influence and make things happen.

You will have experience and skills in project management, with solid evidence of an ability to consult and engage with a variety of stakeholders demonstrated through your passion for driving performance through learning.

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