Talent and Performance Manager

9-12 month Fixed Term Contract - Covering Maternity Leave

This role offers an exciting opportunity for a highly motivated and proactive Talent Manager to make a meaningful impact within an organisation that is transforming Britain’s energy landscape. Operating at the heart of the People Team, the role shapes and delivers the DCC’s talent strategy, builds inclusive and high‑performing talent practices, and partners closely with senior leadership to drive capability, succession, and development across the organisation.

You will play a pivotal role in embedding values and behaviours into all talent processes while supporting a culture of continuous improvement.

• Design and deliver the talent review process, supporting succession planning across ExCo successors, direct reports, and critical roles.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to create and manage functional talent plans.
• Lead the performance management cycle, ensuring consistency, calibration, and continuous improvement across the organisation.
• Identify and evaluate capability gaps, working with L&D and Talent Acquisition to address learning needs and critical skills shortages.
• Drive and influence talent initiatives, including early careers strategy and D&I priorities, acting as a trusted advisor to senior leaders.

• Proven experience in talent management, including designing and delivering talent programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management, with the ability to influence leaders at all levels.
• Data‑driven approach, using insight to shape strategy and decision making.
• Solutions‑focused mindset, comfortable challenging existing processes to drive improvement.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, enabling partnership across People Teams, ExCo, and the wider organisation.

We’re powering Britain’s smarter, greener future. Today. Tomorrow. Together.

Today, we’re deeply invested in building a resilient, sustainable smart energy network that drives transformation. Our success is driven by curiosity, ambition, and tenacity.

Tomorrow, we see vast opportunities for growth and development, contributing to decarbonisation and the Net Zero mission. We’ll continually develop Smart DCC, to fulfil our obligations to consumers, and achieve even more with our customers, partners, and each other.

Together, we embrace change, unite in our shared passions and support each other. Working as one team and across our industry, we rise to the challenge to shape Smart DCC, and the future.

A career at Smart DCC means being part of something bigger – a dynamic organisation that’s not just helping transform energy but also shaping the future. We offer a unique, fulfilling environment where you can thrive today, build tomorrow, and achieve together.

At DCC we reward fairly and recognise fully because our continued success depends on our people.

We offer competitive salaries with regular benchmarking, together with bonuses tied to personal and company performance and our core benefits include pension, holidays, and private healthcare.

We want you to feel respected and able, so we also offer a competitive 8 days per month hybrid work policy together with other flexible benefits that you can tailor to your needs.

This is meaningful work, with meaningful reward.

Choose ‘Apply now’ to fill out our short application, so that we can find out more about you.

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