Talent Management & Development Specialist

Fixed Term Contract Duration - 10 Months

About the Business Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £141.9 billion in customer investments (as of March 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments:
Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands.

At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric.

So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About the Role Level: 4 Department: HR

Location:

Southampton, United Kingdom (With travel to London / other Quilter offices as required) Contract Type:
Fixed Term Contract Contract Length: 12 months Regulated/Non-Regulated:
Non-Regulated This maternity cover position plays an important role in supporting Quilter's ambition to become a more skills and capability-led organisation. The role enables Quilter's workforce capability strategy by turning skills insight into targeted development solutions, maximising Skills & Growth Levy (apprenticeship levy) investment and ensuring development activity is focused on closing priority capability gaps. Working closely with HR, Learning, Data and business stakeholders, you will help identify and prioritise organisational capability needs, translate those needs into practical development opportunities and provide insight on the effectiveness of learning interventions.

A particular area of focus will be supporting Quilter's ongoing development of AI, digital and future workforce capabilities. The role combines capability insight, stakeholder engagement and programme coordination to ensure development activity is evidence-based, aligned to business priorities and delivers measurable impact. Support the design and delivery of Quilter’s talent management and development strategy across our organisation:

• Workforce Capability Insight & Skills Gap Analysis Identify, analyse and prioritise organisational and functional capability gaps aligned to business strategy and future workforce requirements. Maintain a clear view of priority capability needs and development activity across the organisation. Gather and analyse workforce, learning and talent data to provide evidence-based capability insights. Support the development of capability frameworks, skills assessments and workforce capability reporting.
  
  Provide recommendations to HR and business stakeholders on emerging capability risks and opportunities.
• Talent & Succession Management Lead the coordination of Quilter's annual talent and succession review process, ensuring consistency, quality and timely completion across the organisation. Maintain oversight of talent and succession information and reporting, ensuring accurate data supports workforce planning and decision‑making. Identify succession risks, critical role dependencies and future leadership capability requirements. Produce talent and succession insights on bench strength, succession readiness, talent pipelines and organisational risk.
  
  Use talent and succession insights to inform capability-building and development priorities.…