Learning and Development Partner

Company: CV-Library
Job type: Full-time

Contract type: Full time
Location: Based in Nuneaton location and will travel to other Unipart sites as required
Salary: Competitive salary plus car / car allowance, 33 days holiday, pension, bonus, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme

About the Job 

You will work in partnership and with the HR Directors, HR Business Partners, and stakeholders to design and develop Unipart’s strategic talent agenda and deliver effective succession planning and talent management practices to ensure Unipart retains and develops talent to drive our organisation’s growth and success.  You will operate as the Talent expert, to coach and support senior HR and business leaders to deliver talent plans, talent projects and play a key role in supporting the development of talent and learning solutions that enhance our employees performance to achieve our current and future goals.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

Collaborate with the HRD’s and HRBP’s to ensure talent strategies are aligned with Unipart’s strategic objectives, impacting organisational performance positively
Develop Unipart’s strategic talent agenda, and partner with HRD’s and HRBP’s to decide the approach to buy and build talent, address talent gaps and cultivate a culture of talent development and retention
Design, develop and codify succession planning and talent management practices for the identification, development, mobilisation and retention of high potential talent
Provide thought leadership and shape new thinking and innovation across the whole Talent agenda
Create and implement talent metrics at site, division, functional and organisational level
To coach and support the HR function and business leaders to co-ordinate, implement and embed succession planning, talent management practices, talent reviews, promotion and ongoing improvements to our performance management approach
Contribute to the design and implementation of career development strategies, tools and resources
Be the expert on the internal and external talent market and advise HRD’s and HRBP’s on trends and opportunities
Lead initiatives to identify and develop critical talent and facilitate talent mobility programs to foster career growth and retention
Implement, oversee and develop goal setting and performance development processes to drive employee engagement, accountability and continuous feedback
Work closely with the Early Careers and Graduate Manager to ensure alignment and partnership
Work closely with the Talent Acquisition Team to ensure we attract talent into the organisation
Support our Capability Partners as needed with program development and delivery of our Leadership programs and interventions
To develop innovative and digital solutions to enhance the delivery of talent interventions
Develop talent management content to Unipart standard and share across Unipart
Seek good practice across Unipart, share and update Unipart Way Online content and share success stories with internal Communications Team
Coach leaders and Organisational Capability Champions/Leads as required

About You

We’d love you to have the following skills and experience, but please apply if you think you’d be able to perform well in this role!

Essential:

Significant experience in developing a talent strategy and talent initiatives and large-scale capability initiatives
End to end project management of strategic programs in large organisations
Ability to apply strategic thinking to connect related work and make recommendations aligned to business drivers
Strong collaboration skills including the ability to work with diverse and dispersed working teams, without direct reporting relationships
Excellent verbal and written skills
Data lead approach with the ability to relate commercial and people insights to inform decision making
Strong project management skills, high level of numeracy
Cross cultural awareness
Worked in large scale operational environments
Proven facilitation skills, able to deliver with credibility at all levels
Coaching and mentoring skills
Excellent communication skills
Ability to influence at a senior management level
Self-motivated: able to work on own initiative whilst balancing the need to involve others for maximum effectiveness
IT literate (Advanced Level PowerPoint, Intermediate Word, Excel)
Desirable:

Relevant Degree qualification/ Chartered CIPD or equivalent
Coaching and mentoring qualification (ILM)
Experience of site/divisions “startups”, new business integration and organisational change  

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies.  We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales.   As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.

You may have experience in the following roles: Training and Development Manager, Learning Consultant, HR Business Partner, Capability Manager, Organisational Development Specialist, Training Coordinator, Talent Development Manager, Instructional Designer, Training Facilitator, Learning Advisor, Training Specialist, etc.

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