Leadership Development and Talent Partner

Job Description:

Leadership Development and Talent Partner

Flexible On Location: London, Brighton, Staines, Manchester

Flexible Working: Hybrid role where activity is delivered from home, or on-site at one of our offices when required

Permanent

From £53,500 + Fantastic Benefits

Full time (37.5 Hours)

We consider all types of flexibility, including locations, hours and working patterns.

Working in our UK support functions you’ll play a key part in helping our customer facing colleagues deliver exceptional standards of customer service and patient care. No matter your role, you’ll have an opportunity to do work that matters. Making a difference to the lives of our customers each and every day.

The role

The role plays a key role in the management and implementation of our Insurance and Functions Talent and Capabilities agenda. The role holder will be responsible for leading elements of the implementation of our strategy, managing key activities with subject matter experts, local leads and other members of the People team.

You’ll help us make health happen by

Programme manage end to end implementation of talent and capability programmes, including those delivered in partnership with external providers.
Lead on preparation and delivery of Talent Forums in UKI, BG and Functions, tracking actions and engaging with senior stakeholders and members of the people team to embed the talent agenda.
Succession Plan and metrics showing current succession strength.
Support key deliverables of the Connected Careers Talent strategy across BGIUK
Lead on Design and Delivery of LD solutions which reach a broader leader audience e.g. LD webinars for all leaders across BGIUK
Expertly facilitate and deliver innovative and effective learning interventions, enabling learners to achieve desired
outcomes.
Lead on agreeing evaluation criteria and learning outcomes with relevant stakeholders for Talent and Capability initiatives to demonstrate value add/return on investment.
Work with the Procurement team to lead and coordinate engagement with third party learning providers as required.
Manage relationships with external providers, ensuring they consistently deliver as expected and agreed.
Keep up to date with external movement in learning and development practices to ensure continuous improvement and ongoing innovation.

Key Skills / Qualifications needed for this role

Experience, skill and confidence in engaging with senior leaders on talent management and leadership development.
Expert in designing and delivering learning solutions
Experience in Talent Management
Highly developed planning and organisational abilities and a self starter
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with high personal impact.
Expert facilitation skills
High personal awareness and interpersonal skills with a natural ability to build rapport
The confidence and ability to challenge current ways of thinking with innovative and new ideas
Well developed use of Microsoft software packages principally MS Office
Preference: experience and understanding of multiple areas of the Bupa business – insurance, provision and functions.
Benefits

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health – from mental and physical, to financial, social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 25 days holiday, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell

• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind

• An enhanced pension plan and life insurance

• Onsite gyms or local discounts where no onsite gym available

• Various other benefits and online discounts

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve.  That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

As a Disability Confident employer, we offer a guaranteed interview for every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.