Director - Talent Development

Job Description

I have partnered with a leading publishing business that operates globally.I am recruiting for a newly created role Director - Talent Development .This is a newly created role and is actually one of the CEOs main priorities right now.This exciting new role has global remit (UK &USA) and will be responsible for aiding colleague progression and growth in conjunction with the overall reward and retention strategies through the creation of clear career pathways.Partnering across various people teams, focusing on the development of best-in-class career pathways framework that are aligned to performance management system which helps to showcase the organisation as prospective employer of the choice for external jobseekers and as motivational factor for Taylor & Francis colleagues.Your focus:

• Lead benchmarking process to review the best practices in relation to identification of high potential colleagues through talent review and career progression process.
• Lead project teams across departments, People team colleagues and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) in the business to enable the articulation, development and adoption of steppingstones within clearly integrated career pathways, both vertical and horizontal,and which are aligned with our culture and values.
• Support/ nurture business leaders appetite for adoption of processes through building effective and trusting relationships with key stakeholders across the organisation.
• Co-create with other HR teams a strategy for creation of career pathways analysing as-is state and recommending future state of pathways.
• Act as trusted partner (both within and outside of the HR team) to educate and guide on career advancement issues, shaping the whole employee proposition to ensure the organisation can attract and retain talent in a competitive market.
• Work closely with Professional Learning & Organisational Development team to create skill tool kits to enable development within and across pathways.
• Build team to be curious to identify gaps, opportunities for improvement in performance management areas for alignment/co-ordination and communicate them to HR SLT.
• Partner with our Policy and Reward Director to ensure alignment of philosophy and processes for promotion, pay for skills and skills development.
• Ensure career advancement policy clearly relates reward, grading and job families, helping colleagues to understand proper career advancement path at Taylor & Francis.
• Develop a robust governance structure for all promotion and career pathway processes.
• Produce insightful advancement reports, including narrative and alignment to organisational strategy.

Skills and Experience required:

• Proven experience in design and implementation of employee programs and able to track the results of them
• An interest in organisational culture and values with a sensitivity & understanding towards local cultural norms that exist across a global organisation
• Experience with programme management and process improvement
• Engaging communication style with high attention to detail across all written communication mediums
• Experience in a global multinational organisation to execute strategy via an often matrix environment
• Experience in employee analytics methods to gauge engagement
• Experience in people operations, strategic HR areas in a global organisation

In addition to the above, my client offers a competitive salary, holiday allowance and along with some other fantastic benefits.I would consider candidates living in Oxfordshire, Hampshire, Banbury or London, this is a hybrid role and would require 1 office day a week either in London or Oxfordshire.If you feel you have what it takes to be considered for this role, Id absolutely love to hear from you.Please apply or email me directly:Placed shares the commitment to nurturing representation and inclusivity for everyone.

Keyskills :
Career DevelopmentChange ManagementPathwayRetention StrategiesTalent Management