Talent Delivery Consultant

**Talent Delivery Consultant (South West - Cornwall)**
- 230001NT)

For Sainsbury’s HR, people are the most important asset we have and we’re always looking for the brightest talent to bring fresh energy, experience and inspiration. This helps us to get the best out of our people and make sure they have everything they need to feel valued, engaged and motivated. Within HR we do exactly that and take pride in making a real difference to millions of customers’ lives.

As a Talent Delivery Consultant, you’ll play an important role in supporting the development of colleagues and the delivery of strategic internal talent mobility plans for our store teams across Cornwall. You will have responsibility for key talent and development initiatives ranging from facilitating talent reviews to regional and zonal specific development requirements along with some National talent initiatives. You’ll also ensure that we identify and develop the very best internal talent to strengthen our teams across retail, and deliver on our group aims for diversity, inclusion, and progression.

Internally this role is known as a Talent Delivery Consultant, but in other organisations, this might be known as a** Junior Talent Partner,** or **Talent Development Specialist** among others, but no matter what your role title is, we’re looking for someone with experience of managing and influencing stakeholders, analysing data to provide useful insight to develop internal talent within a large and complex organisation.

We relish the opportunity to make a difference and we’re passionate about what we do and how we can support the HR strategy. We aim to be credible, curious, and collaborative - knowing our business areas, asking the right questions, and using our shared experience and knowledge to ensure that our business benefits from the huge talent that our people have. Being human is a big part of this, being interested in the people around you and finding ways to help them develop their potential to benefit our business and our customers.

**More about the role**:

- Support the Head of Talent in delivering the talent/people plan, managing, and coordinating activities as required, including end to end project delivery
- Collate people data analysis, MI reporting and insights to support areas of focus in line with reviewing and developing the effectiveness of talent strategies where required
- Support the Centres of Excellence to ensure new solutions for colleagues are fit for purpose, by providing feedback to improve both content and user experience
- Ensure all aspects of talent are inclusive and fully aligned to the corporate inclusion strategy
- Regularly review talent interventions to ensure solutions and development are driving continuous improvement of capability which are aligned to priorities and delivering ROI, ensuring to feedback to the Head of Talent supporting the relevant specialist area
- Nurture high potential colleagues across the zone using existing talent frameworks to support their development
- Give guidance to managers to access and use the Learning and Development offers available to support their own and their teams’ personal development
- Responsible for (facilitating/delivering) virtual and face to face learning interventions including leading development programmes to retail stakeholders.

**More about you**:

- Able to engage others, of all levels, in initiatives by being credible and persuasive
- The ability to make decisions in ambiguous situations
- Great at using data to tell a story to prioritise, influence outcomes and track progress
- Have a credible and confident presentation style, able to move from explaining to engaging
- A good understanding of general HR principles and practices, including in the following areas: talent management, learning and development, diversity and inclusion
- Some experience of owning, tracking, and delivering small HR projects
- Be a positive change ambassador
- Excellent MS Office skills (Excel, PowerPoint and Word)

Work-life balance is important to us, so we offer our colleagues as much flexibility as possible in line with the needs of their role. We trust them to decide how, where and when they work, combining remote and collaborative working with a flexible approach to hours, giving them plenty of time and space for life outside of work whilst delivering against our business goals.

**What’s In it for you**

If being part of a hugely influential team wasn’t enough, you’ll also receive a host of great benefits. As well as a competitive salary and a huge range of learning and development opportunities, you’ll also enjoy.
- A competitive bonus scheme
- Excellent maternity/paternity policy
- Career break and sabbatical opportunities
- Holiday allowance with the option to buy more
- A healthy pension
- Save as you earn scheme
- Colleague discounts at Sainsbury's, Argos and Habitat with extra discounts throughout the year
- Cycle to work scheme

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