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Build Leaders. Influence the Future.\nWhat if your next role wasn't simply about running talent processes, but about helping shape the future leadership of a global organisation?\nAt Lucy Group, we're investing in our people and building the leadership capability needed for the future. As our Talent Development Partner, you'll work as part of the Talent Development Centre of Excellence team, playing a central role in identifying, developing and accelerating the talent that will drive our business forward.\nThis is an opportunity for someone with disciplined delivery-someone who can turn talent insights into action, build career pathways that create real opportunity, and use learning and development to strengthen business performance.\nYou'll work closely with senior leaders and colleagues across our global business to implement and execute the Talent Development strategy. You'll help managers make confident talent decisions, strengthen succession pipelines, and ensure our people have the experiences, development opportunities and support they need to progress and succeed.\nIf you're passionate about talent, leadership development and creating meaningful career opportunities for others, this is a role where your influence will be seen and felt across an international organisation.\n________________________________________\nWhat You'll Be Doing\nImagine joining a business where your work directly impacts who our future leaders will be.\nYou'll lead our Group-wide succession and talent review processes, translating the Talent Development strategy into consistent, high-quality delivery. Your work will help the organisation identify critical talent risks and ensure high-potential employees receive the focused development experiences they need to prepare for future leadership opportunities.\nYou'll be the driving force behind transforming succession conversations into meaningful development actions by:\nBuilding and strengthening succession pipelines across the Group\nTurning talent review outcomes into measurable development plans\nCoordinating stretch assignments, cross-functional exposure and career-enhancing development opportunities\nWorking with leaders and HR teams to ensure accountability for talent progression\nMonitoring successor readiness and providing evidence-based insight on talent strength and risk\nEnsuring critical roles have credible succession plans in place\nBeyond succession planning, you'll shape how performance and development come together to create a high-performing culture.\nYou'll help leaders have better conversations, set clearer objectives and create stronger development plans by enhancing our performance excellence framework and embedding best practice across the business.\n________________________________________\nA Role With Global Influence\nAs part of the Talent Development Centre of Excellence, you'll be connected to a strong network of specialist expertise and leadership support. You'll partner with:\nSenior business leaders, who will provide direction and sponsorship\nHR Business Partners, who will connect talent priorities with business needs\nData analytics colleagues, who will provide the insight needed to support evidence-based decisions\nCompensation and Benefits specialists, who will help ensure talent solutions are aligned and competitive\nPeer-level colleagues across Talent, Learning and Development, and the wider HR community\nThe Oracle systems team and functional experts across our global business\nWe work as one team to deliver our processes and strategy. You'll bring people, data and expertise together, creating the alignment and shared accountability needed to turn talent priorities into measurable outcomes. This is a highly visible role where you'll build trusted relationships across the organisation, contribute as a valued member of the Centre of Excellence, and become a key voice in how talent is developed globally.\n________________________________________\nHelp Shape Careers Across Lucy Group\nYou'll play a key role in designing and delivering development solutions that allow employees to grow meaningful, long-term careers.\nYour work will include:\nTalent & Succession\nLeading Group-wide talent and succession review activity\nStrengthening succession coverage and reducing critical role risk\nMonitoring development delivery and successor readiness\nProducing evidence-based talent insights and reporting\nPerformance Excellence\nEnhancing performance management frameworks and tools\nSupporting managers in objective setting and development conversations\nFacilitating calibration discussions and performance reviews\nDriving consistency, quality and adoption across the organisation\nLearning & Development\nDelivering talent and learning programmes\nFacilitating development workshops and learning sessions\nConducting training needs analysis using business and talent data\nEvaluating learning effectiveness and return on investment\nCareer Pathways & Capability Development\nIdentifying future capability requirements\nAnalysing skills gaps and organisational capability needs\nMaintaining competency frameworks\nCreating clear career pathways that help employees understand how they can progress and succeed\nOracle Talent Management\nSupporting and improving talent profiles, goals, development planning, succession and performance tools\nWorking closely with the Oracle team to enhance user experience, reporting and data quality\nDriving adoption of talent management technology across the business\n________________________________________\nWhat Success Looks Like\nIn this role, you'll help create a culture where talent is identified earlier, developed faster and retained longer.\nYou'll know you're making an impact when:\nLeadership pipelines are stronger and more diverse\nSuccessor readiness continues to improve\nCritical talent risks are reduced\nManagers are having better quality performance and development conversations\nEmployees have greater visibility of career opportunities\nLearning investment is translating into measurable business outcomes\nMost importantly, you'll help people build careers they may never have thought possible.\n________________________________________\nWhat You'll Bring\nWe're looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with strong delivery capability.\nYou'll likely have:\nCIPD Level 5 in Learning & Development (or equivalent)\nProven experience in talent management, succession planning and leadership development\nExperience facilitating talent reviews and calibration discussions with senior stakeholders\nStrong programme management and organisational skills\nExperience designing and delivering learning and development initiatives\nConfidence working with data and translating insights into action\nThe ability to influence, challenge and engage senior leaders constructively\nExperience turning talent review outcomes into measurable development activity\nExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills\nA passion for helping individuals and organisations reach their full potential\nExperience with Oracle Fusion Learning & Grow and Korn Ferry competency frameworks would be advantageous.\n________________________________________\nWhy Join Lucy Group?\nAt Lucy Group, you'll join a business with a rich heritage and a forward-looking ambition.\nYou'll join a collaborative global team with the specialist support, leadership direction and peer partnership needed to succeed. In return, you'll have the opportunity to influence senior stakeholders, shape future leaders and create meaningful career opportunities for employees around the world.\nThis is more than a talent role.\nIt's an opportunity to leave a lasting impact on the people, leaders and future capability of an international business.\nIf you're excited by the idea of helping people realise their potential while shaping the future leadership of a global organisation, we'd love to hear from you.\n Responsibilities\nTraining needs analysis and L&D advice - to support with specialist advice around training needs and the linking of L&D activities to support skills gaps and career growth.\nManager coaching - to coach managers on how to have effective performance and development conversations and how to create quality objectives. \nTraining and facilitation - the delivery of inhouse training and facilitation using a range of delivery methods including face to face and online.\nTalent management- conducting facilitated discussions with managers on performance/potential (9 box grid), identifying critical roles, creating succession plans, and the creation of talent pools.\nTalent data analysis - analysis of talent and skills data to help inform workforce planning and talent discussions.\nE-Learning design - Create bespoke eLearning courses to support business specific policies, training, and initiatives.\nProgramme design - Design targeted inhouse training programmes to plug identified skills/knowledge gaps. \nGraduate/Apprenticeship mentoring - to support managers training, advice and guidance on mentoring Apprentices and Graduates. \nCompliance, mandatory training, and ISO compliance - manage the process of compliance and mandatory training, provide reports and support in line with the annual programme. Update forms, policies, and processes in line with ISO requirements.\nReports - Produce monthly reports to the Global Head of Leadership, Coaching and Development. \nCareer pathway design - To design career pathways for individual roles or functional areas utilising Korn Ferry skills and collaborating with subject matter experts.\nIn addition to the above core responsibilities, you will be required to undertake specialist projects and administration to support the training life cycle from Oracle request approvals to course evaluations.\n Qualifications, Experience & Skills\nMinimum of CIPD Level 5\nThe role will require skills and experience in the following:\nDevelops Talent\nDevelops people to meet both their career goals and the organisations goals. For example, consistently shares ideas, insight, and best practices to help people reach their development goals and achieve optimal results. Can use multiple talent assessment tools e.g., 9 box grid.\nCollaborates\nBuilds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives. For example, enlists a range of stakeholders to add value; ensures they are well informed, and surprises are avoided. Confronts and challenges \"us vs. them\"; shows strong appreciation for others' efforts toward shared goals.\nCommunicates Effectively\nDevelops and delivers multi-mode communications that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences. For example, disseminates knowledge, insights, and updates in a polished, precise, and compelling manner. Demonstrates a deep interest in others' comments. 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