Tesco
Group Talent Manager - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract
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About the Role
You'll lead the Group approach to talent and succession, ensuring Tesco has the leadership pipelines and critical talent needed to deliver its strategy. I translate Group talent priorities into action, strengthen succession for senior and critical roles, and turn talent insights into clear actions on readiness, development, movement and external hiring. Working with People teams across markets and functions to embed a consistent approach to talent, careers and potential, while ensure our governance drives collective ownership, decisions and measurable progress.
You will be responsible for
- Lead Tesco's Group approach to talent and succession, ensuring leadership pipelines and critical talent support current and future business priorities
- Own the Group talent planning and succession approach, creating consistency in how talent is identified, reviewed, developed and moved across Tesco.
- Translate Group talent priorities into practical action, ensure markets, functions and people teams are aligned on the outcomes that matter most.
- Drive stronger succession for critical and senior leadership roles by identifying risks, improving readiness and building diverse talent pipelines.
- Lead Group talent reviews and governance ensuring talent priorities are visible, discussed and translated into clear actions.
- Use talent insight, data and external market intelligence to identify risks, inform decisions and improve talent outcomes.
- Lead the ongoing development and embedding of Tesco's approach to careers, potential and talent management.
- Build strong partnership across Markets, Functions, Executive Resourcing, Capability, Workforce Planning, DE&I and business partnering teams to deliver joined-up talent outcomes.
- Provide expert talent advice, challenge and guidance to the Group talent community, building capability and improving the quality of talent and succession decisions
- Bring external insight to continuously evolve Tesco's approach to talent, succession and careers.
- Lead the partnership with Tesco's external strategic talent partner.
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You will need
- Significant experience in talent management and succession planning
- Experience partnering with senior leaders on leadership pipelines and critical talent
- Experience designing and embedding enterprise-wide talent approaches
- Experience leading talent reviews, governance and succession discussions
- Experience using talent insight and data to inform decisions and actions
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and stakeholders
- Experience working with external talent partners
Whats in it for you?
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- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary.
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
- Private medical insurance.
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.
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You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.
When you join us in this role, you'll be employed by Tesco Stores Limited, the Tesco legal entity responsible for your employment.
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