Talent Management Specialist
Posted 4 days ago by Lily Shippen
£45,000 Per year
Undetermined
Onsite
Solihull, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The Talent Management Advisor role at a leading global automotive firm involves supporting business leaders and HR in performance management, competency frameworks, and learning strategies. This position is crucial for driving a robust performance management cycle aligned with corporate standards. The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment and is passionate about contributing to a commercially focused HR team. The role is based in Solihull and is offered on a 6-month contract basis.
Key Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end performance management cycle
- Design and maintain appraisal calendars, workflows, ratings guidelines
- Facilitate goal setting, mid-year and year-end reviews
- Coordinate calibration and talent review sessions
- Develop and sustain competency frameworks
- Define role-based competencies and proficiency levels
- Map competencies to career paths and skills matrices
- Manage framework governance and version control
- Conduct Training Needs Analysis and translate results into plans
- Analyse competency and performance gaps
- Prioritise learning interventions by business impact
- Collaborate and design blended learning solutions
- Advise and coach managers
- Provide training on giving feedback, setting SMART goals, and fair evaluations
- Offer on-demand expertise during appraisal and calibration phases
- Support HR, Talent Acquisition, Leaders, Quality teams
- Align processes with parent-company practice
- Ensure system configurations support reporting and audit trail requirements
- Monitor and report on talent metrics
- Track cycle completion, rating distributions, competency coverage
- Surface insights for continuous improvement
Key Skills:
- Strategic mindset: translates business imperatives into talent processes
- Project management: plans, executes and evaluates multi-phase rollouts
- Stakeholder influence: builds trust with senior leaders and cross-functional teams
- Analytical aptitude: interprets performance data and uncovers trends
- Communication excellence: delivers clear guidance and impactful training
- Change agility: navigates complex matrix environments and drives adoption
- A proactive, can-do attitude with adaptability in a fast-paced environment
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels
Salary (Rate): £45,000 yearly
City: Solihull
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: on-site
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: HR
Our client is a market leading, agile and high growth, global firm within the automotive sector. They now seek a Talent Management Advisor is a key role requiring someone who thrives in a fast paced, scale-up environment, managing multiple priorities to tight deadlines and has a genuine passion for working as part of an ambitious and commercially focused HR team. As their Talent Management Advisor, you will be supporting business leaders and HR, to drive performance management, competency frameworks, and learning strategies. This role ensures a robust cycle from goal setting through calibration aligned to corporate standards and values.
Role: Talent Management Advisor
Location: Solihull (on site)
Salary: £40,000 to £45,000
Contract : 6 months contract
Consultant: vic@lilyshippen.co.uk - Please direct all enquires regarding this role to Vic.
Role Profile:
- Lead end-to-end performance management cycle
- Design and maintain appraisal calendars, workflows, ratings guidelines
- Facilitate goal setting, mid-year and year-end reviews
- Coordinate calibration and talent review sessions
- Develop and sustain competency frameworks
- Define role-based competencies and proficiency levels
- Map competencies to career paths and skills matrices
- Manage framework governance and version control
- Conduct Training Needs Analysis and translate results into plans
- Analyse competency and performance gaps
- Prioritise learning interventions by business impact
- Collaborate and design blended learning solutions
- Advise and coach managers
- Provide training on giving feedback, setting SMART goals, and fair evaluations
- Offer on-demand expertise during appraisal and calibration phases
- Support HR, Talent Acquisition, Leaders, Quality teams
- Align processes with parent-company practice
- Ensure system configurations support reporting and audit trail requirements
- Monitor and report on talent metrics
- Track cycle completion, rating distributions, competency coverage
- Surface insights for continuous improvement
Candidate Experience and Competencies
- Strategic mindset: translates business imperatives into talent processes
- Project management: plans, executes and evaluates multi-phase rollouts
- Stakeholder influence: builds trust with senior leaders and cross-functional teams
- Analytical aptitude: interprets performance data and uncovers trends
- Communication excellence: delivers clear guidance and impactful training
- Change agility: navigates complex matrix environments and drives adoption
Attributes:
- A proactive, can-do attitude with adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels.
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