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Leadership & Executive Development Manager

Employer
Hays Human Resources
Location
City of London, England
Salary
£800.00 - £1000 per day
Closing date
28 Feb 2019

Job Details


Your new company
Our client prominent financial services firm is on the search for an experienced Leadership & Executive Development Manager to join their Organisational Development & Capability team for 6 plus months starting ASAP.

Your new role
This is a newly created role and the successful candidate will be focused on the development of the senior leadership population at the firm. A critical focus of 2019 and moving forwards is to have a more structured group-wide approach to senior leadership development to lead the delivery of Group wide strategy, a refreshed Group purpose and to re-set the role of leaders across the business.

Key responsibilities

  • Define and execution of leadership and talent investment strategy
  • Scope and design of leadership interventions to develop leadership capability aligned to the organisations goals, in the first instance with the Top 100 population.
  • Manage the succession process for Exco positions - working with Heads of HR to execute the process.
  • Drives performance management of the senior leadership population by improving the alignment and calibration of objectives and the assessment of performance.
  • Tracks and reports on the success of development interventions through agreed measures and course-corrects as necessary.
  • Undertakes individual development planning with HiPo CEO/Exco successors to ensure appropriate robust plans are created and followed through.
  • Manages coaching pool and allocation of coaches as well as providing 1:1 coaching support as required.
  • Sources development programmes (including NED and trustee opportunities) for HiPos and manages relationships with suppliers
  • Acts as trusted advisor to the business in all matters relating to developing senior talent and leadership
  • Develops the use of Talent and Succession processes on Workday - working with the broader Talent Development team to ensure that the firm maximise the use of automated tools.



What you'll need to succeed

  • Expert development professional with experience of sourcing, delivery and evaluation of senior leadership interventions
  • Proven track record of influencing leaders at senior levels, including Executive Committee, able to challenge and inform
  • Experience in driving succession discussion and creating debate on what's possible
  • Understands performance metrics and how they can be used to influence behaviours
  • Background in Financial Services/Tech organisation preferable
  • Organised, driven, professional with exceptional communication skills
  • Ability to prioritise and ensure that commitments to delivery are met, works in a programmatic way to ensure delivery and follow up
  • Degree or equivalent
  • Coaching and Assessment/Development tool qualifications/certification
  • An experienced facilitator and relationship builder



What you need to do now
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