Personal Group Hiring for Talent Development Partner Job at Milton Keynes, England Full Time

Our people are core to the success of our business and growing our own talent is an essential part of our talent strategy so that is why our newly created Talent Development Partner is a pivotal role within our People team.

The Talent Development Partner will own responsibility for delivering development solutions for our business that contribute to the delivery of the Company’s Business and People Strategy.

Working with external training providers to ensure best practice development solutions are delivered in line with business goals to ensure we are fit for the future.

Day to day activities will include:

• Provide coaching and expertise to line managers and individuals on best practice development solutions to drive individual and team performance.
• Work collaboratively with our People Advisors and Partners to ensure that through our development planning process, there is validation of both the training needs and the solutions identified.
• Provide guidance to the business on their development requirements as the subject matter expert
• Identify key external training providers in line with the business’ requirements with a future lens to ensure talent development meets demand
• Ensure our Learning Management System is fit for purpose to offer all colleagues a seamless experience when using the system and that the content is engaging and relevant
• Evaluate and report on the ROI of the programmes delivered across the business to enable effective decision making
• Work with the leadership team and managers to identify and/or solution talent priorities and drive business capability and the development of key skills
• Oversee our Talent Development Programmes and Mentoring scheme
• Continual review of our induction for new starters to ensure on-boarding content is relevant, innovative and adds value to the new joiner experience.
• Manage the L&D budget effectively to maximise opportunities to deliver cost effective and quality solutions

What are we looking for?

• A broad, generalist understanding of all L&D processes and activities including development planning, requirements gathering, coaching and mentoring, supplier and budget management and internal training delivery although this role is focused on using partners for most of the delivery
• Significant experience of L&D best practice with the ability to bring new ideas alive to implement innovative solutions to identified development requirement
• Experience of implementing and/or managing relevant L&D systems such as the Learning Management System and Linked In Learning platform or equivalent
• Ideally BPS and MBTI/SDI qualified with good market knowledge of psychometric tests and personality profiling
• Demonstrable success with pro-active stakeholder management at varying levels
• Ability to establish and maintain strong and credible working relationships built on trust and the ability to challenge in an environment that encourages you to speak up
• Influencing and negotiating skills are key to your success and you’re able to share information and build openness and commitment
• The ability to think strategically and creatively when it comes to problem solving, identifying pragmatic and measured solutions that put employees and managers at the heart of everything

What’s great about the role?

This is a role with white space to make it your own. You will get to design, own and manage the PG Talent Development strategy. Working in a hands-on role which is broad, varied and challenging, a role where you can use your partner/manager level L&D experience to be successful. We are a collaborative and dynamic team with a real desire to improve the colleague experience and can offer a great team working environment.

Benefits

• Hybrid working between home and office (3 days in office 2 working from home)
• 25 days annual leave with option to purchase additional holiday days
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employer contributory pension
• Onsite gym
• Free travel insurance for you and your family
• Life assurance – 4 x salary
• Practical Health Plan
• Salary sacrifice options include big technology purchase discounts, retail discounts platform, car lease schemes, share ownership plan and more….

Why Personal Group?

We are an innovative and leading provider of employee reward and benefits. Our market leading benefits platform Hapi©, has been developed using state of the art technology and we are growing fast!

Joining us will give you the chance be part of a dynamic company that is constantly looking for ways to support our clients in engaging their employees.

“Personal Group is proud to be an inclusive employer and encourages applications from a diverse range of candidates. If you require reasonable adjustments to assist you with the application and/or recruitment processes, please contact our Recruitment Team

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: £33,000.00-£39,000.00 per year

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Work remotely:

• No

Reference ID: TDM