Leadership, Talent and Performance Partner (12 Month Contract)

At YBS, we’re here to do what’s right. Not just for our members who use our savings and mortgage products. But for our communities, our society, and our world. And it all begins with our people.

We’ve created the kind of workplace where you can make a difference. It’s somewhere you can put purpose ahead of profit. Where you can balance commerciality with conscience. Where you can focus on growing, developing, learning, and progressing. Where you can be your best.And where you can do the right thing - for you, your career, and your future.

The business strategy has informed our Leadership, Learning and Talent priorities. We have an ambitious roadmap that we are driving and delivering, and we need our colleagues to have opportunities to continually learn and stay relevant, and the right set of capabilities to succeed.

We also encourage flexible working, so please get in touch if you’d like to discuss flexible or reduced working hours. Our Leadership, Learning and Talent team are currently hybrid working, so sometimes you’ll be working from home, on other occasions be at our Leeds or Bradford offices.

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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About us

At YBS we don’t have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you’ll be respected for who you are, you’ll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you’ll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility. We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work-life balance. Whether it’s finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you. We’re happy to talk flexible working and you can reach out to us anytime during the recruitment process to discuss this.

Development. We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we’re committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we’ll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity. We’re passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you’ll go the extra mile to help our members, you’ll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You’ll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals were all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%)
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that’s why we’ll contribute up 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us you’ll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you’ll have access to our self-service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts,

Ready to apply?

If you’re excited about this role and want to be part of the YBS team, click apply now to send us your application.