Talent Manager in London

This role is primarily responsible for a privately owned bank Talent Acquisition team, who will also look after areas of learning and development and training.

Role Duties

• Recruitment Lead
• Talent Acquisition Strategy: Develop and execute a recruitment strategy to attract top-tier talent.
• Candidate Sourcing & Selection: Source, screen, and interview candidates for a variety of roles ensuring a seamless and professional candidate experience.
• Recruitment Partnerships: Manage relationships with external recruitment agencies, including maintaining and optimising the preferred supplier list, negotiating terms, and ensuring service level agreements are met.
• Collaboration with HR Business Partners: Work closely with HRBPs to understand workforce planning needs, provide market insights, and deliver tailored recruitment solutions.
• Benchmarking & Market Analysis: Conduct market research and benchmarking to ensure competitive compensation and benefits for open positions.
• Recruitment Tools & Systems: Utilise our new tool Oracle HCM to post job openings, manage candidate pipelines, and track recruitment metrics. Delegate tasks to the HR Administrative team as appropriate.
• Graduate Programme: Lead and oversee the UK's graduate programme, working closely with colleagues in Switzerland.
• Learning & Development
• Learning Strategy: Design and implement a learning and development strategy that aligns with the bank's UK's business objectives and promotes a culture of continuous learning.
• Training Needs: Partner with business leaders and HRBPs to identify skill gaps and training needs.
• Training: Develop, source, and implement training programmes, workshops, and e-learning solutions to address identified needs, collaborating with Switzerland's L&D team where training is organised centrally.
• Mandatory training: Work with Compliance, Risk and other teams to issue mandatory training for staff on a biannual basis, reviewing training from our system LRN and working with them to amend where appropriate.
• Vendor Management: Identify, evaluate, and manage external training providers.
• Training Delivery: Facilitate and deliver, or support the delivery of training sessions, workshops, and leadership development programmes as needed.
• Evaluation & Reporting: Measure the effectiveness of training initiatives through feedback, assessments, and performance metrics, and use insights to continuously improve programmes. Monitor training hours, study leave, and completion records of mandatory training.
• Corporate title & promotions: Manage the annual process for promotions nominations, working closely with the HRBPs.
• Other
• Diversity & Inclusion: Collaborate with leadership to develop and implement initiatives that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion.
• Employee Engagement: Design and execute engagement initiatives to promote a positive and inclusive workplace culture.
• Succession planning and talent management: Work with HRBPs and leadership to deliver succession planning and talent management for key roles, ensuring key action plans are in place to address any gaps or support further development.

Person Specification

• Strong experience in recruitment and learning and development.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Strategic thinker with the ability to align talent strategies with business objectives.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines.
• Experience in designing and delivering training programmes.
• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and provide actionable insights.