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Talent Manager

Flexible hybrid working from home with a base at one of our offices in: London or Coventry

For Sainsbury’s HR we are always looking for the brightest talent to bring fresh energy, experience, and inspiration. This helps us to get the best out of our people and make sure they have everything they need to feel valued, engaged and motivated. We are ambitious and innovative, with talent at the centre of our strategy.

In this exciting role as a Talent Manager within our Talent and Performance Centre of Excellence you will help to shape our internal corporate talent and performance strategy, ensuring we are equipped to identify, retain and develop diverse talent profiles that meet the needs of the business now and in the future. Working within a team of 3 Talent Managers, you will develop insights into the health and diversity of the talent pipeline across the whole organisation and propose best practice interventions to meet our talent strategy and priorities.

You will work closely with the Talent community and Directors of HR, who partner with our business, to develop appropriate solutions and ensure initiatives are adopted, embedded, and continuously improved. You’ll also work with our L&D and Leadership Development Centres of Excellence who have accountability for developing our talent. The team works on a broad variety of exciting, future focussed projects, often in cross functional teams providing an opportunity to interact with a wide range of business areas.

What you need to know & show

• This role will suit candidates who have deep internal talent and performance expertise (rather than talent acquisition or recruitment) and have worked in a Talent centres of excellence or a talent consultancy role

• Ability to think strategically allied with a practical approach to execution and creative flair

• Extensive knowledge of and previous experience in designing and delivering talent management strategies and tools

• Strong data analytical skills demonstrating appropriate rigour, able to convert qualitative and quantitative analysis into insights and proposals

• Influence through grounded confidence and credibility in the presence of senior people, open to feedback and remaining optimistic in the face of obstacles

• Application of strong judgement, comfortable working with ambiguity

• Ability to develop and input into strategies across multiple business areas

• Ability to engage people of all levels in initiatives by being credible and persuasive to stakeholders

If being part of a hugely influential team wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive a host of great benefits. As well as a competitive salary and a huge range of learning and development opportunities, you will also enjoy.

• A competitive bonus scheme

• Excellent maternity/paternity policy

• Career break and sabbatical opportunities

• Holiday allowance with the option to buy more

• A healthy pension

• Save as you earn scheme

• Colleague discounts at Sainsbury's, Argos, and Habitat with extra discounts throughout the year

• Cycle to work scheme

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, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals

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