Talent Development Programme Manager

As a Talent Development Programme Manager, you'll provide a critical two-way link between the business and the Talent Development team; shaping, advising on and executing talent development projects in alignment with business strategy and needs across our Strategy and Communications and Management Consulting businesses, reporting into the Head of Talent Development and Wellbeing.

Working closely with highly passionate and knowledgeable leaders and consultants in the business, you will shape, develop and administer business-specific training activity as well as developing and programme managing a range of UK wide talent and DEI programmes.

This role is an integral part of a collegiate, ambitious, and highly professional global people team that aims to always drive innovation, efficiencies, and progressive people solutions to ensure we continue to be an employer of choice.
The People Team
The focus of our People Team is to ensure everyone in Teneo has the opportunity and support to deliver their very best for clients and teams every day, and that great work is recognised and rewarded. We strive to achieve this by consistently supporting a progressive approach to the way people are developed and managed and fostering a collegiate approach where people are challenged and stretched but feel supported and enjoy their work.

We are looking for a new member of the team to play a pivotal role in helping us to achieve our core objectives:

• Reputation - Supporting our reputation as a great place to work and build your career with an outstanding client list and mould breaking work.
• Attraction and retention - being a destination consultancy for talent and developing long-term careers for our people. Identifying the levels, skillsets and expertise needed and using data and insights to make the best, most cost-effective recruitment decisions
• Skills - Support our dual-focus of brilliant specialists, seamlessly integrated by evolving the skills set and expertise required to meet our proposition and increase our ability to resource teams from across the office in an integrated way that is best for the client.
• Growth - Supporting a culture of high performing, stable teams because this leads to increased engagement and revenue.
• Diversity, Equity and Inclusion - Increasing the diversity of our team and inclusiveness of our culture to reflect society and our clients' needs, bringing new and wider perspectives and experiences into the firm.
• Wellbeing - Ensuring we continue to deliver excellence for our clients with strong, stable teams by supporting the resilience, wellbeing and work/life balance of our people

Key Responsibilities
As Talent Development Programme Manager within Teneo you will:

• Act as a talent and development programme manager to key stakeholders, being able to identify development needs and provide recommendations/strategic direction by offering progressive solutions that meet business needs
• Own the end-to-end learning provision of key programmes (internal and through 3rd party): Identify, design and implement current and future learning needs to design, deliver, execute, project manage and measure the effectiveness of business area initiatives / programmes (not limited to training)
• Advise the business on effective learning delivery methods to drive engagement and uptake (e.g. self-service, just-in-time training, multimedia channels), creating and driving a learning strategy which uses these methods to modernise/optimise existing curricula
• Create and maintain new joiner/onboarding learning journeys across multiple different employee profiles
• Create and maintain ongoing development training journeys for senior grades
• Support individual teams to structure their own development offerings
• Promote all upskilling and development opportunities through impactful communications and internal marketing

• Bring a focus on soft-skill development to the existing technical skills curriculum to ensure all aspects are provisioned

• Maintain, curate and develop the offering of online content, resources, learning workshops and materials as required
• Undertake research to develop and drive learning best practice across the business
• Improve functionality, engagement and maintain Learning Management System (Workday) alongside team
• Work with Talent Development Advisor to identify, select and manage external providers / suppliers
• Undertake evaluation of all Talent Development initiatives to drive improvements and relevant content
• Regular reporting of meaningful management information to inform learning initiatives / curriculum and decisions
• Lead and collaborate on cross UK projects / responsibilities as required

Skills & Experience

• You will have significant experience designing, delivering and evaluating development activities and a proven track record of driving and delivering projects in a complex, fast-paced environment
• Worked on both traditional and modern upskilling methods
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Excellent stakeholder management skills with proven ability to gain credibility at all levels
• Subject matter expert in learning and development best practice
• Able to build trusted relationships whilst challenging, persuading and influencing
• Proactive and able to take responsibility and work autonomously as well as working as part of a team
• Experience of integrating diversity, equity and inclusions goals into programme design and a passion for driving our inclusion goals within all relevant training initiatives and programmes
• Experience of designing and delivering early careers / internship programmes desirable
• A background in professional services will be advantageous, with a demonstrated understanding of client/project ways of working

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• 28 days holiday
• Discretionary bonus
• Annual salary review
• Hybrid working (60% in the office)
• Pension (company contribution: 5% of annual salary)
• Investment in personal development & learning
• Enhanced parental leave
• Private medical insurance
• Group Income protection
• Life assurance
• Cycle to work schemes
• Season ticket loans
• Regular social, cultural and charitable activities

About Teneo
Teneo advises business leaders, enabling them to achieve goals faster and at lower cost by earning trust, navigating disruption and removing barriers. We are built to help businesses succeed in a world no longer defined by boundaries and disciplines. Working exclusively with the CEOs and senior executives of the world's leading companies, Teneo provides strategic counsel across their full range of key objectives and issues.

Our clients include a significant number of the FTSE 100 and Fortune 100, as well as other global public and private corporations.

We're an ambitious, global consultancy which allows candidates unmatched opportunities to develop and work with inspiring, motivated people. Our teams bring together the disciplines of strategic communications, investor relations, restructuring, management consulting, physical & cyber risk, financial advisory, corporate governance advisory, ESG, DE&I, political & policy risk, and talent advisory, to solve for the most complex business challenges and opportunities. We aim to make companies and institutions stronger and more valuable. We are capable of advising at the most senior levels across the world's leading businesses and organisations and we're proud to work with some of the strongest brands in the world.

Across the globe, Teneo employs more than 1,200 people, offering global reach from a light infrastructure, built out of regional hubs.

Our culture is critical to our success. We have a flat management structure with an open and supportive office atmosphere. To support progression and learning, we foster a supportive environment with a focus on mental health and wellbeing as well as adopting an inclusive environment that allows all employees to flourish. We recognise that diversity is essential for our business and encourage applicants from all backgrounds.

At Teneo, we have fully embraced hybrid working and redefined the way we work such that it facilitates collaboration, optimises productivity and promotes the health and wellbeing of our people. We are adopting a 60:40 principle of office:remote working across our UK business which offers the flexibility to ensure that our people are empowered to find the right rhythm for themselves, our teams and our clients. We are also happy to discuss other forms of flexible working so please let us know if this is something you would like to discuss.