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Talent Development Manager - SaT

EY

EY

People & HR
London, UK
Posted on Jul 30, 2024

Talent Development Manager – Strategy and Transactions (SaT) Talent Development Team

Based Birmingham or London

The opportunity

The SaT Talent Development team works in partnership with the business to lead on the definition, development and execution of the learning and development strategy for the SaT service line.

We provide our internal clients in the business with opportunities to develop a comprehensive portfolio of technical and core skills and leadership behaviours, engage in high-quality, dynamic, impactful, and relevant learning​, and grow their career. This in turn enables our learners to thrive as individuals and succeed collectively in inclusive and diverse teams to deliver Exceptional Client Service.

This Manager position is accountable for the oversight and management of a portfolio of Talent Development projects across a technical and non-technical curriculum for people in the SaT, from student hire through to partner development.

Key responsibilities

Learning Strategy

  • Own and drive the identification of learning and development needs in line with business priorities, appropriately engaging with business stakeholders.
  • In collaboration with SaT business and Talent Development leaders, define and design the Talent Development strategy for SaT, in alignment with EY learning strategy.

Design and Develop Learning

  • Design, develop and evaluate learning and development programmes and strategic initiatives, delivering high quality learning deliverables.
  • Adopt consulting skills to develop deep understanding of business issues, building close working relationships with colleagues and collaborating with external experts as required.
  • Engage SMEs for learning design and build of local content as required, including managing pilots.

Deploy Learning

  • Create learning deployment plans and budgets and oversee their execution.
  • Provide clear project updates and communicate at all stages of the project lifecycle.
  • Work with business stakeholders and learning and development champions to drive the uptake and completion of courses to targets.

Team management

  • Lead and manage team members and invest in their development.
  • Act as a counsellor, coach and mentor, participate in recruitment, drive team development, and manage performance.

Financial Management

  • Support and manage monthly/annual team finance activities, tracking for budgeting and spend as needed.
  • Manage team resources, including budget to achieve business targets, adopting a commercial mindset and approach.
  • Manage commercial supplier relationships.

Brand

  • Build brand and credibility for the SaT Talent Development team, aligning offerings with EY’s leadership model and DE&I priorities.
  • Deliver effective communication to generate high levels of learner and stakeholder engagement across SaT.

Facilitation of learning programmes

  • Facilitation of key courses and workshops as needed.

Skills and attributes for success

  • Skills and experience in Talent Development including design, learning deployment and facilitation.
  • Strong commercial acumen and business awareness.
  • Agility and adaptability to move with emerging business needs and attention to high quality services and products that meet business requirements.
  • Stakeholder management and business consulting with a strong ability to engage and influence others.
  • Strong client focus with the ability to network, manage relationships and work virtually and across borders and cultures
  • Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders across the organisation at all levels
  • Strong presentation skills (both verbal and written presentations)
  • Team Management, coaching and interpersonal skills with an ability to manage difficult conversations
  • Encourage an environment of open communication, inclusion, participation and self-development
  • Data management and analysis, ability to generate and present evidence-based insights
  • Strong IT skills - MS Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook and Sharepoint.
  • Evidence of identifying and implementing process improvements and creation of best practice
  • Working in international and diverse environments.

Essential requirements

  • An experienced Manager with at least two years’ experience in a Manager role with demonstrable project and people management skills.
  • Experience of working in HR/Talent/Talent Development in professional services or a large, complex matrix corporate environment.
  • Strong team working and team management skills, with an enthusiastic, can-do, flexible approach, and ability to collaborate to work as ‘one team.’
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.