Head of Talent

4 months ago

Richmond, United Kingdom tails.com Full time

**Changing the world of pet food for good**:
We’ve got bold plans. Having created an entirely new category in pet food, we now have a strong strategy to scale sustainably in the UK and Europe - backed by Purina, one of the world’s largest pet food companies. You’ll join a bunch of smart people working towards the same goals - and a bunch of smart-ish dogs, all working on their own thing.

Together, we’ll change the world of pet food for good.

**Organise & Engage**:
Sound like a team you want to join? Here’s how you’ll make a difference:
**The role**:
You will be responsible for setting the strategy and direction for Talent & Engagement and managing a high performing team including specialists in Talent Acquisition, Internal Communication, Engagement and Learning & Development to deliver a best in class, inclusive and engaging people experience.

**The things you’ll do**:

- People agenda & strategy: Working with the Chief People Officer to set the vision & strategy for the whole people function, building and executing on the talent, engagement and D&I parts of the strategy.
- Talent Acquisition & Engagement: Ensure best in class talent acquisition and a strong employer brand is created and upheld. Use a data-driven approach (e.g. engagement surveys, talent acquisition metrics) to drive insights and the right actions.
- Talent Management: Analyse needs for talent management frameworks (succession planning, levelling/job architecture, key talent etc), and build, implement and ensure the day to day running of them as required to develop and retain talent whilst supporting our culture being lived.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Evolve and run Diversity & Inclusion part of the people strategy.
- Internal Communications: Responsible for all aspects of employee communication, ensuring that we have two-way channels and build engagement and support our culture through the way we communicate.

**The skills you’ll bring**:

- Experience of successfully managing a team
- Extensive experience in the design and delivery of a talent management strategy - with a focus on building bespoke programmes for a high performance culture and use of best practice to continue to evolve a whole organisation’s approach to talent management.
- Experience in analysing learning needs and identifying and designing the right talent development opportunities, implementing them on time and budget
- Strong ability to partner with People Partners and stakeholders across the business to drive buy in and delivery of the talent management and D&I agenda across the organisation
- Proven strong communication skills, in forums ranging from creating engagement in large groups; drafting high quality written communication to telling a story through data
- Analytical mindset, with appreciation for the importance of effective metrics

**What’s next?**:
If this sounds like it matches your experience and what you’d love to do, we can’t wait to hear from you If you’re unsure whether you fit our criteria exactly, please get in touch anyway. And because we believe that diverse teams perform better, we’d especially love to hear from you if you’re from an under-represented demographic.

Here’s a taster of how our recruitment process works:

- _ Once you have applied your CV will be reviewed by the Hiring Manager._
- _ If selected, you will then have a call with the Talent Acquisition Manager for 30 minutes to understand more about your skills and experience. _
- _Should you be successful, the next stage will be a video call with one of our Senior Leadership Members for 45 minutes. _
- _If successful, you will be invited back to present a task back to a panel of interviewers for 1 hour. _
- _The final stage is a video call with our Chief People Officer for 45 minutes._

**Our Commitment**:
**What's in it for you?**:

- Competitive salary, reviewed annually.
- Annual bonus, based on company performance.
- Flexible core hours, giving you true work life balance.
- Hybrid role to ensure this role works for you.
- 25 days of holiday_ (excluding bank holidays)_ which increases over time to a max of 27 days.
- 9/10 day working week - meaning every other Friday off to enhance your wellbeing without a reduction in pay and leave allowance.
- Optional 5 days unpaid leave and 1 paid volunteer day each year.
- When you need a change of scenery, you can work from abroad 2 weeks every 6 months.
- Extended maternity, shared parental and adoption pay. Up to 6 months at 70% pay, linked to statutory parental pay.
- Flexible paid care leave to support immediate dependants, people close to you and pets.
- An external financial coach to support a range of topics - debt management, savings and investments.
- Vet service - to support with all pet related questions.
- In house L&D team, with access to year round courses to help drive your development.

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