Talent and Performance Lead

Are you ready tochart your own career path? With our refreshed strategy, we’re building on our rich heritage and transforming our business to be more scalable and efficient, unlocking the capabilities needed for future success.

This includes significantly investing in technology, streamlining the way we work and creating an environment where colleagues feel engaged, empowered and accountable; where they can show up, speak up and perform - because we believe in the difference our work makes.

At a glance:

Location: Cirencester Office

Workplace Type: Hybrid

Employment Type: Permanent

Seniority: Mid-Senior Level

Are you passionate about strengthening organisational capability, developing talent and creating the conditions for high performance? We're looking for a Talent & Performance Lead to play a key role in shaping the frameworks, insight and governance that support talent, succession, organisational capability and performance across SJP.

Reporting to the Head of Talent & Organisational Performance, you'll help translate business strategy into practical solutions that strengthen workforce readiness, organisational effectiveness and long-term organisational capability. This is an exciting opportunity to influence enterprise-wide people practices, working closely with leaders, People Partners and specialist People teams to ensure SJP has the talent, capability and performance needed to deliver its strategic ambitions.

As Talent & Performance Lead, you'll partner closely with leaders, People Partners and specialist People teams to develop and embed best-in-class approaches across talent, succession, organisational capability and performance management.

• Design, implement and continuously improve talent frameworks, tools and guidance that support the identification, development and retention of talent across SJP.
• Develop and maintain career frameworks, talent pathways (including internal mobility) that enable employees to build sustainable careers and help the organisation access critical skills and talent.
• Evaluate emerging talent practices, technologies and external market developments, recommending improvements where appropriate.

• Design and maintain the succession planning framework, tools, guidance and governance processes used across the organisation.
• Support People Partners in the delivery of talent reviews and succession planning activity by providing methodology, expertise, facilitation support and challenge where required.
• Maintain succession data, reporting and analysis, identifying emerging risks and opportunities and supporting mitigation activity.
• Support the application and continuous improvement of approaches used to assess talent, successor readiness and development needs, drawing on assessment outputs and leadership insight generated through Leadership Development activities.

• Design and maintain organisational capability assessment approaches, measures and diagnostic tools, using workforce planning outputs, talent data and business insight to identify capability strengths, gaps and emerging risks.
• Develop tools, frameworks and approaches that support leaders and People Partners in understanding and monitoring organisational capability and provide analysis and recommendations to support decisions on appropriate interventions.
• Facilitate communities of practice and capability-building activity to improve the quality and consistency of talent and performance conversations across the organisation.

• Design and continuously improve performance management frameworks, tools and resources.
• Analyse performance outcomes and trends across the organisation, identifying…