Talent and Development Manager

**Job Title: Talent and Development Manager**

**Location: London, UK**

**Salary: £80,000+Bens**

**Ref: DI - R0997784**

At dentsu we are committed to attracting, developing, and retaining the best talent in the media and communications sector. Our business in the UK & Ireland is positioned for growth, and the importance of a diverse, engaged and committed workforce who wantto develop a meaningful career with us has never been greater.

This role will be focussed on ensuring that our people continue to develop, progress their careers and deliver client value. The role holder will create visible and compelling career paths for our people, identifying the capabilities required to grow ourbusiness. They will work with our executive team, senior leadership teams and our wider leadership community to activate our leadership at dentsu framework and ensure that they are creating the environment for their teams to be successful. They will also ensurethat new joiners to dentsu quickly integrate into our business and accelerate their performance.

**Key Accountabilities**:
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

- Ensure our talent ambitions and principles are brought to life through practical, business relevant interventions
- Lead all succession and talent planning activity across UK&I - scaling talent identification, and ensuring critical and high potential talent have defined career paths and individual development plans
- People Managers - focus on developing people manager capability across all levels but our middle-managers at level 40, 45 & 50 - ensure mandatory training is in place to support this level of people manager
- Leadership - responsible for embedding leadership at dentsu and ensuring our leaders are role modelling the right behaviours and practicing enterprise leadership
- Mentoring - lead part in developing our Mentoring programme for UK&I business
- Identify employee learning needs and develops plans to address them
- Where relevant, select and partner with external training and coaching providers
- Activate and deliver employee career and capability development, aligned to our career framework
- Develop and promote career pathways and drive internal mobility across the organisation
- Deliver a robust onboarding experience for new joiners to dentsu
- Ensure that leaders are well positioned to drive talent management and retention
- Manage the Performance Development and Talent processes

**Person Specification**
- Solid understanding of talent management and people development principles and approaches
- Experience of working in complex, global organisations
- Comfortable and credible in collaborating with a wide range of stakeholders across all levels within the business
- Strong project management experience and proven ability to manage multiple deliverables within tight timeframes and to a consistently high quality
- A bias for data-driven decision making, with experience in using insights to inform priorities and measure success
- Experience working across wider HR disciplines, with an ability to identify dependencies and drive connectivity
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral)
- Strong problem analysis and resolution skills, with a clear bias for action

**About dentsu international**:
**Working with us**:
Joining dentsu international, you’ll join a team of 48,000 people.? It’s?an?opportunity to produce career-defining work. Along the way, you’ll team up with inspiring colleagues and encounter a richness of clients, cultures and experiences.? We offer excitingchallenges, memorable experiences and opportunities to shape your future.

**Inclusion and Diversity**:
We’re proud to be different and that starts with our people. We believe in equal opportunities for everyone. We won’t define people by their race, gender, sexual-orientation, age or disability. Individuality is what makes us great, we want everyone to bringtheir full self to work and create something amazing. That’s what we care about. So, whether you’re joining us, or looking to move to a different part of the business, we work hard to make sure we create equal opportunities for everyone.

We are happy to discuss flexible and agile approaches to working for all our roles - we can’t promise we will be able to offer you everything you want or need but we do promise to discuss it with you openly and honestly. If you have any reasonable adjustmentneeds arising from a disability or medical condition to fully participate in the recruitment process, please discuss this with our recruitment teams.