Royal Mail Group Hiring for Future Talent Lead Job at Farringdon, England Full Time

Job reference number 284461

Future Talent Lead – London (Hybrid Working)

Competitive Salary

18% Bonus potential

Royal Mail Pension Contribution Scheme

Car Allowance

AXA Healthcare

£5,500 Car Allowance

Full time

Permanent

Royal Mail Farringdon, London, EC1A 1AA

We have an exciting opening at Royal Mail for a Future Talent Lead who will work closely with the Director of Talent and the broader HR team.

The Future Talent Lead will play an integral role in building and implementing a sustainable future talent strategy to facilitate business transformation.

You will be expected to provide visionary and strategic leadership to internal and external efforts within Royal Mail and act as a trusted advisor and thought partner to the Director of Talent, Chief Talent Officer, and HR Executive Team.

This is a Hybrid Working Role, with travel to Farringdon London for meetings and when required.

About the role

You will serve as a key strategic/business partner regarding Future Talent, with an excellent knowledge of related issues, topics, programs, and trends.

Collaborate across the talent management team to align activities related to Future Talent with strategic talent acquisition, development, learning and diversity and inclusion

Support the Director of Talent to drive the implementation of impactful initiatives across Royal Mail, align with broader HR and People priorities, collaborate with the company’s compliance/reporting programs, and monitor progress toward goals.

Provide advocacy, support, and governance for Future Talent and development; as well as accountability for building out an early years careers programme to deliver on the stated ambition to hire young talent to develop and maintain external strategic partnerships to advance Future Talent within Royal Mail.

Act as an effective steward and advocate of Royal Mail’s Future Talent strategy to external audiences, and effectively communicate/articulate current and ongoing efforts to external customers.

Work closely with the Learning and Development team to align learning efforts in support of the holistic Future Talent strategy, leveraging internal expertise.

Develop and implement strategies to engage and support young talent within Royal Mail, working in partnership with the Youth Board and other internal stakeholders.

You will work in partnership with Recruitment/Talent Acquisition to ensure employer brand and attraction activities align to Future Talent strategy.

About You

To be successful in this role, you will have the following skills and sttributes;

• Experience in early careers / future talent ideally within a blue-chip organisation of scale, experience of working across a large, low skill workforce is helpful
• Experience of designing and delivering effective talent solutions that integrate recognised principles of Learning & Development
• Proven ability both as a Future Talent thought leader and effective implementer
• Experience in creating and delivering strategy based on data-driven conclusions.
• Experience with leading teams through the influence of internal and external stakeholders.
• Exposure to unionised environments would be helpful though not essential
• Experience influencing cross-functional teams to structure/execute programs and build operational capabilities at scale and with demonstrable results.
• Ability to collaborate and be comfortable with solving ambiguous problems.
• Excellent business acumen, problem framing, problem solving, project management, and analytical skills.
• Excellent presentation and written/verbal communication skills.
• Excellent analysis and data / insight skills.

Extra Benefits

Your career in safe hands

At Royal Mail we value our people and we want our people to be proud to work for our businesses.

We have the assets, the infrastructure and the scale that others don’t, yet we are a big part of the communities we operate in, making billions of precious deliveries each year. We are responsible for the largest B2B customer database in the UK and are one of the largest employers in the UK, providing one in every 194 jobs.

An operation of this size needs a strong support network, and the HR, Legal, Finance, IT, Risk & Governance, Customer Experience, Sales & Marketing departments are all integral to helping us to utilise the latest technology and business approaches to optimise, automate and digitise our operations.

Royal Mail is a forward thinking, innovative organisation, that is also committed to reducing emissions and improving air quality in our communities. This includes investing in technologies such as electric vehicles, drones, alternative fuel trucks and energy improvements to our estate.

For more information about Royal Mail’s values of being positive, brilliant and part of it, please click on the link below:
About Us (royalmailgroup.com)

Next Steps

Closing Date:22nd November 2022. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

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