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Talent Delivery Consultant

Talent Delivery Consultant

Sainsbury’s Bank

Edinburgh, Milton Keynes, Holborn or Widnes & Home

We are happy for you to be based in any of the above locations and we support remote working for most of the role requirements. Please note that travel to Edinburgh may be required on an occasional basis.

In a nutshell

In other organisations, this role might be known as an HR Business Partner, Junior Talent Partner or Talent Development Specialist among others, but no matter what your role title is, we’re looking for someone with experience of managing and influencing stakeholders, analysing data to provide useful insight, and developing talent within a large, complex organisation.

As a Talent Delivery Consultant, you will play an important role in supporting the development of colleagues and the delivery of talent plans. You’ll have responsibility for arranging key talent and development initiatives ranging from facilitating talent reviews to division specific development requirements. You’ll ensure that we identify and develop the best talent strengthen teams across the business, and deliver on our group aims for diversity, inclusion, and progression. You will also work closely with the Heads of Talent to support the delivery of a strategic talent plan for a business area(s).

What you need to do

• In collaboration with the Head of Talent, assess the effectiveness of the current workforce to meet current and future business objectives, identifying resource, skills/capability gaps to build strategic talent plans for each business area(s).
• Work with the Head of Talent to recognise the need for recruitment campaigns and collaborate with the Group Resourcing function to clearly define requirements and scope campaigns to attract and recruit great colleagues.
• Nurture high potential colleagues within their business area and uses existing talent frameworks to support their development.
• Support the job evaluation process for roles within your business area, ensuring they are evaluated fairly and consistently, in addition ensuring the roles have been benchmarked so that reward packages are equitable and in line with similar roles both internally and externally.
• Analyse and manipulate key talent/HR data across stakeholder group to support talent plans.
• Support the Head of Talent in facilitating talent reviews with key stakeholders, ensuring processes and tools are used effectively and key activities completed in a timely manner.

• Build relationships and work collaboratively with the broader network of Talent Delivery Consultants and the Centres of Excellence to ensure we’re working in the most effective way possible and delivering value for our stakeholders.

What you need to know and show

• A good understanding of general HR principles, including talent management, resourcing practices.
• Experience of working with corporate functions, ideally in a large business.
• A detailed understanding of the diversity and inclusion agenda.
• Experience in delivering engaging face to face training.
• Experience of working with a HR system (desirable) and being an expert at analysing and manipulating data.
• Excellent Microsoft office skills (predominantly Excel, PowerPoint and Word).
• An awareness of how different individuals learn and how to apply this to the delivery of talent programmes and initiatives.
• A good understanding of Talent and L&D processes, models and methodologies.

Colleague Conduct Rules

The individual performing this role is expected to adhere to the conduct rules as specified by our regulators (PRA and FCA).

Our benefits

In addition to the all-important salary, pension & bonus offering, we totally get that life outside work is important to us all. So, we want to shout out some of our other great benefits…

• We offer flexible working to help you achieve a good work/life balance
• Opportunity to buy extra holidays is on the table
• Discounts on your weekly shop, buying a laptop or sofa? We’ve got it covered through your Sainsbury’s, Argos and Habitat store discount card
• Cycle to work scheme.

A little about us & our culture

We’re proud of our heritage as the UK’s first supermarket bank. As digital technology drives the banking landscape we want to be at the cutting edge of this technology, offering award winning innovative digital banking products to our customers. Technology is where we see our growth therefore, we need innovators to join us and drive the next phase of our evolution.

We’re a friendly bunch who collectively share a passion to make our customers’ financial lives easier. As part of the wider Sainsbury’s Group, being one of the UK’s most trusted brands, it brings our colleagues a wealth of opportunities to fulfil their potential. Here, you can be part of something bigger and help to create a new approach that puts the customer at the heart of everything we do.

Everyone is welcome at the Sainsbury’s Group, and we’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer that champions a diverse and inclusive culture that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve.

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours within their working days, giving plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

If you’re interested in applying and are excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience – we’d still love to hear from you! We’d also be happy to discuss more flexible working options such as job shares and part time working.

As this role involves working within a regulated environment any offer will be subject to satisfactory background checks including criminal record check, credit check, fraud check and employment references.

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