Senior Talent & Development Manager

Role Purpose

The Senior Talent and People Development Manager will be responsible for delivering the attraction, communication and development strategy for head office and retail. The role will support key stakeholders within the business with talent and development plans that map current and future recruitment, skills and development needs.

The Senior Talent and People Development Manager will report to the Head of People and will be the line manager for the Talent Acquisition, Internal Comms and People Development teams.

This role is based in Savers Dunstable Head office; however, there is a requirement to attend meetings, conferences and visit stores.

• Building relationships with a variety of key stakeholders:
  Regional General Managers, functional heads of departments and the senior people team both in Savers and Superdrug
• Taking ownership of Savers employer brand, Recruitment activities, Internal communications, Talent & development forecasts, training delivery both online and face to face
• Developing own knowledge and skills to ensure Savers offers the best plans, best development/training offer, and meets employee needs both current and future
• Ensuring leadership skills both current and future are mapped and developed at all levels
• Identifying trends and providing insight to the business in order to drive great decision making
• Working closely with Head of people, Senior People Manager for retail and key stakeholders to highlight opportunities around recruitment and development to deliver a strong succession plan and pipeline of top talent both internally and externally
• Providing reporting on various KPI’s to drive business performance in both Talent, Internal Comms & PD
• Taking ownership of Head Office recruitment
• Managing training and recruitment costs and driving cost efficiencies

• You enjoy being proactive, seek opportunities, collaborate with key stakeholders and put plans in place to drive results
• You know you add value through your ability to build strong and collaborative relationships with stakeholders and by delivering best in class talent and development plans
• You understand how to interpret business needs and put plans in place to achieve these needs/gaps
• You are good at influencing and leading teams
• You can easily use data to spot trends, implement plans and drive opportunities
• You have developed the ability to communicate effectively, taking the business’s tone of voice into account as well as using the appropriate communication channel depending on business and employee level
• You are motivated to build a strategy, build on successes and adapt to ever changing employee demands
• You get satisfaction through helping others in spotting talent, developing their teams and finding solutions to keep ahead of the market

You need to have experience in influencing business decisions and building strong relationships with key stakeholders including functional heads and directors.

You will have working knowledge of key recruitment activities, building a strong employer brand, candidate journey, skills mapping, development solutions (including online) and effective communication channels.

You will be willing to continuously learn and develop yourself and your team.

You will need to be curious, creative, proactive, methodical and resilient.

Leadership experience in leading successful teams.

A degree in Human Resources or CIPD Level 5 would be valuable but not essential.