People & HR,Senior Management
Senior Manager - Talent
Job ID: 010010
Location: Leeds, UK, LS1 8EQ
Job type: Fixed Term - Full Time
Salary: Up to to £110,000 + Bonus & Benefits
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Senior Manager Talent
Broad Gate Leeds (hybrid minimum one day per week in the office)
This is an initial 12 month fixed term contract to cover maternity leave
At YBS, our Purpose is to provide Real help with Real Life. To achieve this, we need futureready skills, strong leadership pipelines and a clear view of the talent capability required now and for the future.
We’re looking for a Senior Manager Talent to set and lead our enterprisewide talent and skills strategy, ensuring we attract, develop and retain the capability and leadership needed to deliver our business strategy.
This is a highly visible, senior role with accountability across talent, succession, skills and capability, working closely with the Executive Committee and Board.
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you will:
- Set and lead YBS’s Talent & Skills Strategy, aligned to our business strategy, ensuring the Society has the capability and leadership required to succeed.
- Hold endtoend accountability for succession and talent pipelines, including senior and executive populations, providing clear insight, assurance and recommendations to ExCo and the Board.
- Own the governance and continual improvement of the Society-wide Skills Strategy ensuring it is effectively deployed through People Partners, Organisational Effectiveness and Talent Partners.
- Enable insightled talent decisions, setting the direction for workforce insights, talent tooling and external intelligence, translating data into targeted resourcing, learning and development interventions.
- Build futureready organisational capability, shaping enterprise approaches to learning, upskilling, reskilling, internal mobility and early careers.
- Lead an inclusive resourcing strategy that strengthens diversity, supports social mobility and contributes to YBS’s commitment as an inclusive employer.
- Act as a senior leader within the People & Culture leadership team, collaboratively shaping strategy and leading a team to deliver organisational priorities.
What we’re looking for
We’re looking for an experienced, strategic talent leader who brings:
- Proven enterprise leadership experience, shaping and delivering organisationwide talent and capability strategies.
- Expertise across talent, succession, resourcing and capability frameworks, with the ability to translate organisational change into practical talent solutions.
- Strong collaborative ways of working and people leadership needs building out to align with the additional bullet above.
- Strong insightled decisionmaking skills, using workforce data, analytics and external intelligence to drive targeted interventions.
- Outstanding executive communication skills, able to distil complexity and facilitate highquality strategic discussions. ability to influence, challenge and partner effectively at executive level.
- Demonstrable understanding of regulatory expectations in financial services.
- Experience operating in the first line of defence, managing and escalating peoplecapability risks.
- A genuine commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion across all talent processes.
Our Head Office teams are known as Enabling Functions. They're open, innovative, collaborative and always focused on doing what’s right.
And they’re here to support our colleagues by providing a range of high quality, head office services, including risk, HR, finance and marketing. Whatever team you join, you’ll discover that it’s a welcoming, supportive and inclusive place to be, with all the flexibility you need to make work a rewarding part of your life.
About Our Benefits
Everyone’s different. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits and rewards that we think you’ll love – whatever’s important to you, and whatever stage of life you’re at. Such as…
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Our pension scheme (where you can get up to 11% from us)
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Competitive bonus package
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Access to brilliant health benefits
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Life assurance at 6 times your salary
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25 days’ holiday (and the option to buy more)
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Cycle to work or an interest-free loan for an annual ticket
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Wellbeing resources and tools
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Retail and Leisure discounts
Learning & Development
Everyone can build a career path they love here. And that’s because we offer a wide range of programmes, opportunities and more to help you learn, grow, and develop – and reach your full potential.
These include...
- Personal Growth Toolkits - a range of materials that help you discover your strengths, identify your goals, and your next steps.
- Secondment and Stretch opportunities – helping you gain experience in different areas of our business and new ways of working.
- Learning Champion Network – opportunities to work outside of your immediate area and build new skills.
- Apprenticeships and Professional Qualifications – a range of brilliant apprenticeships and programmes available to everyone.
- REACH Diverse Leadership Programme – helping our Black, Asian and Ethnically Diverse leaders progress into senior leadership roles.
Our Colleague Networks & Groups
Our Vision is to be a leading organisation that embraces diversity, champions equity, and creates an inclusive environment where all individuals regardless of their background or identity feel valued, empowered and supported.
Our Colleague Networks and Groups are designed to amplify the voices of diverse groups and provide a structured route to effect real change. They provide a safe space and use colleague feedback to support the progression of our DEI Strategy. Our eight networks and groups are:
Community and Charity
Ever since we started back in 1864, we’ve had a clear purpose – to do some good in our communities through helping people keep their savings safe. And helping everyone have a place to call home. Today, that purpose is still a huge part of who we are. And every one of our colleagues helps that happen.
We’re committed to volunteering our time, resources, skills and knowledge – more than 50% of colleagues contribute to thousands of volunteer hours every year. And our Charitable Foundation has now donated over £9 million to charities and good causes across the country.
Hear from some of our people about what working at Yorkshire Building Society is like, and what it means for them…
Our ways of working and flexibility
We know there’s no single right way of working that fits everyone. That’s why we’re not trying to find one. Instead, we’re doing everything we can to make sure that when we’re working flexibly, together and apart, we’re working at our best. We help our colleagues get the most out of work, and take care of themselves, wherever they’re working.
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.
Find out more about our Ways of WorkingMeet the Recruiter(s)
Jessica Wilkinson
Executive Resourcing Specialist
Connect with Jessica WilkinsonSince being at YBS I have been fortunate enough to have gained experience recruiting in most of our head office functions including People, Rick, Finance, Commercial and Audit.
I am currently working in our Exec Resourcing team working on senior level recruitment in Risk, Commercial and Internal Audit and would love to hear from you if you are interested in senior opportunities in these areas!
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