Talent Development Lead

Role Overview

You'll focus on building and embedding career pathways, succession planning and skills frameworks that support long-term capability, retention and internal progression. Working with our People Business Partners, and our in-house training provider, you'll ensure development activity is well-directed, aligned to business needs and clearly connected to progression.

What You Will Do

Design clear, accessible career pathways across key job families, define progression criteria and development expectations at each level, support managers and employees in understanding how roles, skills and progression fit together, coordinate and maintain data driven succession planning for critical roles, support leaders in identifying talent, development needs and future capability gaps, ensure succession planning outputs translate into meaningful development actions, develop skills frameworks that set out the technical and behavioural skills required at different levels, ensure frameworks are practical, easy to use and aligned to job architecture, use skills data to inform development priorities and workforce planning, work closely with the internal training provider to ensure learning programmes align to skills frameworks and career pathways, translate business and capability needs into clear development requirements, evaluate learning effectiveness through feedback, uptake and impact — not just attendance, partner with HR, Talent, and business stakeholders to embed development practices, continuously review and improve frameworks as the organisation grows and evolves, support a consistent, fair and transparent approach to development across the business.

Why It Might Be a Fit

You'll likely have experience in talent development, L&D, or organisational capability, practical experience designing or maintaining career frameworks, skills frameworks or succession plans, an understanding of how learning, progression and workforce planning fit together, a collaborative, pragmatic approach and the confidence to work with a range of stakeholders.

Requirements

• Experience in talent development, L&D, or organisational capability
• Practical experience designing or maintaining career frameworks, skills frameworks or succession plans
• An understanding of how learning, progression and workforce planning fit together
• A collaborative, pragmatic approach and the confidence to work with a range of stakeholders