Contract type:
Full time
Location:
Based in Nuneaton location and will travel to other Unipart sites as required
Salary:
Competitive salary plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme
About the Job
You will work in partnership and with the HR Directors, HR Business Partners, and stakeholders to design and develop Unipart's strategic talent agenda and deliver effective succession planning and talent management practices to ensure Unipart retains and develops talent to drive our organisation's growth and success. You will operate as the Talent expert, to coach and support senior HR and business leaders to deliver talent plans, talent projects and play a key role in supporting the development of talent and learning solutions that enhance our employees performance to achieve our current and future goals.
As part of your key responsibilities you'll:
- Collaborate with the HRD's and HRBP's to ensure talent strategies are aligned with Unipart's strategic objectives, impacting organisational performance positively
- Develop Unipart's strategic talent agenda, and partner with HRD's and HRBP's to decide the approach to buy and build talent, address talent gaps and cultivate a culture of talent development and retention
- Design, develop and codify succession planning and talent management practices for the identification, development, mobilisation and retention of high potential talent
- Provide thought leadership and shape new thinking and innovation across the whole Talent agenda
- Create and implement talent metrics at site, division, functional and organisational level
- To coach and support the HR function and business leaders to co-ordinate, implement and embed succession planning, talent management practices, talent reviews, promotion and ongoing improvements to our performance management approach
- Contribute to the design and implementation of career development strategies, tools and resources
- Be the expert on the internal and external talent market and advise HRD's and HRBP's on trends and opportunities
- Lead initiatives to identify and develop critical talent and facilitate talent mobility programs to foster career growth and retention
- Implement, oversee and develop goal setting and performance development processes to drive employee engagement, accountability and continuous feedback
- Work closely with the Early Careers and Graduate Manager to ensure alignment and partnership
- Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Team to ensure we attract talent into the organisation
- Support our Capability Partners as needed with program development and delivery of our Leadership programs and interventions
- To develop innovative and digital solutions to enhance the delivery of talent interventions
- Develop talent management content to Unipart standard and share across Unipart
- Seek good practice across Unipart, share and update Unipart Way Online content and share success stories with internal Communications Team
- Coach leaders and Organisational Capability Champions/Leads as required
About You
We'd love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you'd be able to perform well in this role!
Essential:
- Significant experience in developing a talent strategy and talent initiatives and large-scale capability initiatives
- End to end project management of strategic programs in large organisations
- Ability to apply strategic thinking to connect related work and make recommendations aligned to business drivers
- Strong collaboration skills including the ability to work with diverse and dispersed working teams, without direct reporting relationships
- Excellent verbal and written skills
- Data lead approach with the ability to relate commercial and people insights to inform decision making
- Strong project management skills, high level of numeracy
- Cross cultural awareness
- Worked in large scale operational environments
- Proven facilitation skills, able to deliver with credibility at all levels
- Coaching and mentoring skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to influence at a senior management level
- Self-motivated: able to work on own initiative whilst balancing the need to involve others for maximum effectiveness
- IT literate (Advanced Level PowerPoint, Intermediate Word, Excel)
Desirable:
- Relevant Degree qualification/ Chartered CIPD or equivalent
- Coaching and mentoring qualification (ILM)
- Experience of site/divisions "startups", new business integration and organisational change
Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.
You may have experience in the following roles: Training and Development Manager, Learning Consultant, HR Business Partner, Capability Manager, Organisational Development Specialist, Training Coordinator, Talent Development Manager, Instructional Designer, Training Facilitator, Learning Advisor, Training Specialist, etc.
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