Talent and Development Advisor

We are Landsec

We identify and shape places that create opportunity, enhance quality of life, and bring joy to the people connected to them. This is how we\'ve created the UK\'s leading portfolio of urban places and one of the largest real estate companies in Europe. Our £10 billion portfolio is built around premium workplaces, the country\'s pre-eminent retail platform, and a residential pipeline that will redefine urban life. We\'ve honed this ability over 80 years. Spotting the opportunities, building the partnerships, and continually adapting to shape the places that meet the needs of a changing world. Places where life happens. Where businesses grow. And where cities are defined.

Location

The role will be based at our office in London Victoria. There will be the need for occasional travel to other retail sites around the country as and when required.

The role

This role is about joining the dots — taking a holistic, end-to-end view of talent development that aligns individual growth with organisational goals. With a focus on talent management, this role will track talent progress, supporting succession planning, and ensuring our top talent have clear, actionable development plans. You\'ll own the full learning lifecycle, from identifying needs to embedding impactful solutions using frameworks like 70/20/10. With a proactive mindset, you\'ll anticipate future capability gaps while responding swiftly to evolving business needs. Strong stakeholder management and strategic insight will be key as you shape development initiatives that are practical, scalable, and deeply embedded in the culture. This role is the \'go to\' person for Talent and Development queries partnering with People Managers and Line Managers as needed. The role will focus on identifying skills gaps, understanding team and business goals, and delivering impactful learning experiences that drive engagement, performance, and retention.

You\'ll thrive in situations where you need to adapt and evolve, taking others on that journey with you. Most importantly, we want someone who is a true advocate for our cultural DNA and who consistently demonstrates it in every interaction.

Salary: Competitive

Principle Accountabilities

As the Talent and Development Advisor in the team, you will be responsible for:

Talent Development

• Implementing Talent Strategy:
  Support the Group Talent & People Development Manager in the identification and tracking of talent across the Organisation. Deliver solutions for building the skills in the organisation that support the current and future requirements of the strategic direction of the business and deliver on areas of skills gaps identified within the succession planning framework.
• Reimagine Learning Through 70/20/10
  : Embed a culture of continuous, blended learning by creatively applying the 70/20/10 model - designing experiences that go beyond the classroom, spark peer-to-peer learning, and turn everyday work into powerful development opportunities.
• Targeted Development Planning:
  Take a proactive approach to anticipating development needs and reacting to a changing environment when required. Develop a training needs analysis to assess feasibility of training requests, scope of training requirements and delivery against individual, business and learning and development priorities. Take a lead on designing and implementing tailored development plans to enhance skills aligned to strategic objectives as well as individual development needs.
• Delivering Value
  : Use data driven evidence to evaluate the impact of talent and learning interventions, innovating and improving existing offerings and introducing scalable solutions, ensuring the approach is relevant and accessible. Responsible for measuring the effectiveness of development programmes and talent approach through regular reporting to business leaders.
• Data-Informed Decision Making
  : Responsible for the ongoing management of Talent data to enable business leaders to maintain succession plans and inform capability decisions. Strengthen our approach to talent management and internal mobility, creating opportunities for our people to develop both personally and professionally; enabling the retention of diverse talent at all levels in the organisation.
• Leveraging Apprenticeship Levy:
  Collaborating with the Social Mobility Lead, ensure effective use of the Apprenticeship Levy for programmes that are aligned with the business\' needs and addresses potential areas of skills gaps.
• Programme Management:
  Takes end-to-end ownership of the implementation of the core development programmes including planning, co-ordination and management of events, delegate administration, liaison with 3rd parties and tracking the value and effectiveness of the intervention(s).
• Content Curation:
  Creating and delivery of bespoke learning interventions, evaluation and reporting on the effectiveness of the learning.
• Maintaining Minimum Standards:
  Source, plan and coordinate the implementation of learning solutions to meet mandatory, technical, and statutory training requirements ensuring effective roll-out and uptake across relevant audiences.
• Future of Work Readiness:
  Anticipate how technology solutions including automation and AI will reshape talent needs and how they can enhance and support our development offering.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration:
  Collaborative partnership and stakeholder management across all business units and enabling functions, to deliver exceptional talent development in Landsec.
• Stakeholder Management:
  Develop professional partnering relationships with key internal stakeholders and external training partners, to facilitate seamless delivery of training and learning to the client group and maximise the customer experience. Excellent management of multiple suppliers and systems to deliver our learning and talent programmes within budget.
• Talent Champion:
  Act as an advocate for the People team, with specific knowledge and guidance to the People team and business on the appropriate development solutions.
• Budget Management:
  Manage external partners including ownership of the relevant budgets to ensure value for money is aligned with business needs.

Broader People Initiatives

• Strategic People Plan Delivery:
  Contribute to the delivery of the People Team business plan with direct support and collaboration with the Group Talent & People Development Manager, focusing on Landsec\'s approach to performance management, engagement and culture.
• Driving our High-Performance Culture:
  Partner the People Directors and People Managers to ensure the right tools, resources, and support are in place to drive a high performance culture, specifically by enhancing line manager capability to address and manage under performance.

Essential Criteria

• Experience of talent management including performance management and how it links to culture and business performance
• Excellent partnering skills with both internal and external stakeholders
• Skilled in a range of learning and development interventions including performance management, coaching, mentoring and management development
• Experience conducting both structured and informal training needs analysis
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Strong influencing techniques
• Proven experience of translating strategy into excellent execution
• Proven experience at building relationships with a broad range of stakeholders
• A confident communicator able to represent the business at all levels
• Design and delivery experience to create fit for purpose talent and development solutions
• Ability to embrace innovation and digest changing market conditions
• Technologically savvy and data literate to derive insights and inform decision making
• Proven analytical skills to compare, evaluate and develop recommendations
• Familiarity with learning platforms and digital tools to support development

Life and Benefits at Landsec

We have a great benefits package, there to support you with your work-life balance and in moments that matter. We offer fantastic Learning and Development opportunities to help you grow and reach your potential and we also play our part in supporting the communities where we live and work.

Below are some of our core benefits, make sure to visit our My Total Reward page for more information.

• Performance based annual bonus plan
• 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays) rising to 27 days after 2 years and the option to purchase up to 10 additional days each year. Enjoy an additional three-day December festive break on top of your leave and a special \'My Day\' to take off for whatever you choose.
• Enhanced pension contributions – Landsec will contribute up to 10.5% subject to your contribution.
• Private medical insurance, Health Cash Plan, Life assurance and income protection.
• Enhanced maternity, adoption, shared parental leave policies (view our Family policies page for more details)
• Two different share plans enabling you to share in the success you will help to build
• Up to 4 working days to volunteer per year and \'Give As You Earn\' programmes allowing you to donate to charities straight out of your pay and we top up by 20%

And when it comes to your health and wellbeing you will also have access to other benefits: our employee assistance programme, digital GP, cycle to work scheme, a mindfulness app and a health app supporting fertility and menopause.