Macmillan Cancer Support Hiring for Senior Talent & Leadership Manager Job at London, England Full Time

Full time (34.5 hours), we are open to a conversation about how you work these hours

Location: Flexible – either split between our London office and home, or Home-based

Salary band: £59,500 – £69,000 dependant on contract type and experience

The Learning & Development team at Macmillan Cancer Support has big ambitions, and we’re looking for an inspirational, inclusive, and creative L&D leader to help us achieve them. We are focused on creating and delivering innovative and impactful development opportunities and experiences that will help our colleagues achieve their full potential and drive our strategy to do whatever it takes for people with cancer.

If you relish the chance to lead people to deliver great things, are passionate and knowledgeable about leadership and talent development, and want to work in a team where you’ll be expected to innovate and trail blaze new ideas, this role could be for you. You’ll be involved in leading a variety of new initiatives -including leading the launch and implementation of a new inclusive management development offer, working with the business to create a leadership framework and associated development to support it, overseeing our apprenticeship offer and launching a new approach to inclusive talent management. Phew! We think it’s an exciting opportunity, and if you do too, we would love to hear from you!

Our ambition at Macmillan is to reach and improve the lives of everyone affected by cancer and inspire millions of others to do the same. This role is a fantastic opportunity to support Macmillan in attracting, retaining and developing a talented and diverse workforce to reach our ambition.

About the role

The Senior Talent & Leadership Manager will provide future-focused leadership to the Talent & Leadership team within the wider L&D team. Through impactful learning approaches, you will drive performance and support delivery of Macmillan’s overall strategy. The role will be expected to use organisational insights and the latest research and thinking on leadership development and talent management to inform the design and delivery of these solutions.

About you

You must be an experienced and inclusive people leader with a track record of creating, delivering, and evaluating impactful leadership and talent development in a large organisation. In addition, a knowledge of digital learning, Agile methodology and talent pipelines will be a huge advantage, but we’re committed to developing the right candidate for the role to achieve their full potential.

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to join a team, that is passionate about developing and helping people achieve their full potential?

Are you looking to build on your experience of designing and delivering innovative approaches to talent management and leadership development? If so, this could be the role for you.

About us

We help millions of people with cancer across the UK live life as fully as they can through physical, emotional, and financial support. Our values are at the heart of who we are and everything we do, inspiring our thinking and guiding our actions. Together, we do whatever it takes for people living with cancer, with heart, with strength and with ambition.

We are striving to do everything we can to ensure that our workforce is representative of the people we support, and those who support us. We advocate for being an inclusive organisation, where everyone can feel that they belong and where there are no barriers to success.

We want every individual to feel empowered to bring their best to work, and that’s why we offer flexibility in our working locations, working hours and benefits so we can support you in your life and career ambitions. We offer a range of flexible working patterns, such as compressed hours, e.g. 34.5 hours in 4 days instead of 5, flexibility to work earlier or later around our core working hours of 10am-4pm and more options.

We welcome applications from everyone who meets the criteria and strongly encourage individuals to apply who have a disability, impairment or health condition or individuals who identify as Black, Asian or from another ethnic minority background, as these groups are currently under-represented at Macmillan. Our Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, along with our internal employee representation body, ‘Our Voice’ and 8 Employee Network groups help us promote fairness and belonging, becoming an engaged and inclusive organisation for all our people.

So we can support you to be your best during the application or interview process, please contact Macmillan People Services Team on [email protected] for advice and recruitment adjustments. In your application, please feel free to note which pronouns you use (for example, she/her/hers, he/him/his, they/them/theirs).

Recruitment Process

The application deadline is 25 September 2022, with virtual interviews taking place on 29 September and 4/5 October. In order to ensure fairness and consistency to select the best candidate for this role, all of our applications are anonymised up until an interview has been confirmed so that shortlisting is based solely upon the suitability of the candidate’s experience