Talent and Performance Consultant

**Location**:Bristol, GB**Company**:CLFIS Limited**Description**:
**Location**: Potters Bar, London, Bristol or Isle of Man (with hybrid working options)- Canada Life UK looks after the retirement, investment and protection needs of individuals, families and companies. We help to build better futures for our customers, our intermediaries and our employees by operating as a modern, agile and welcoming organisation.
- At Canada Life, we share one common purpose - to help build better futures for our customers and each other. That’s why we invest in the development of our people, technology and workplaces.
- We have over 1,550 colleagues working together across 5 locations - including those working virtually. Potters Bar, our largest site, has over 600 colleagues. We also have teams based in Bristol, Isle of Man and Central London.**Job Summary**:
Working with the Talent and Performance Manager, the role holder will be responsible for creating Canada Life’s early career talent development offering; including how we attract, develop and retain talent. This role will primarily focus on utilising the apprenticeship levy to bring in a new talent pipeline to Canada Life, before exploring opportunities with graduates, interns and other early career or career change opportunities. The role holder will also support the Talent and Performance Manager with developing Canada Life’s wider talent development offering.- You will be the day-to-day point of contact for early careers talent at Canada Life - overseeing the programmes from beginning to end, coaching and challenging colleagues to grow and thrive throughout their time on programme. You will be responsible for designing and delivering a stretching programme of tailored learning that enables our early career talent to develop the right skills to ensure we’re fit for our future and provide opportunities for them to practise and embed their new skills and knowledge.- Working alongside our Learning & Development team, you will support our people leaders in confidently managing early career talent and be the escalation point for any challenges. You will work in partnership with L&D to ensure effective management of our apprenticeship levy, focusing on value for colleagues and Canada Life. You’ll work with business areas to identify opportunities for early career talent and help them to shape what that looks like to ensure we’re developing talent that is fit for our future.- The Talent and Performance Consultant will be required to also build trusted and credible relationships with people leaders across Canada Life, the talent acquisition team, people relations partners as well as external learning suppliers. Taking ownership and using your expertise to create a best-in-class experience, looking for ways to continuously evolve our talent offering.**Responsibilities**:
1) Lead the day-to-day running of our early career programmes, including providing pastoral and development support to all participants.
- 2) Create new pipelines of early career talent, working collaboratively with our talent acquisition team, focusing on apprenticeships predominantly but also including graduates and interns.
- 3) Work with leaders across Canada Life to ensure we’re set up for success to nurture early career talent.
- 4) Support the delivery of our other talent development programmes, including mid-senior career programmes.
- 5) Provide comprehensive analytical support to talent and succession initiatives.
- 6) Monitor success of our talent development initiatives, looking for ways to continuously improve.
- 7) Monitor spend of apprenticeship levy fund.
- 8) To establish and nurture excellent relationships within own team, and the global talent partners to leverage global opportunities and share UK successes.**Experience Required**:

- Developing and leading early career talent programmes
- Experience with apprenticeships and utilising the levy
- Ability to build strong relationships with a range of stakeholders across a multi-location organisation, including working with third party learning and apprenticeship suppliers
- Draw on strong emotional intelligence to enable effective coaching and influencing approach
- Ability to analyse data, identify patterns and create recommendations
- Persevere during setbacks, and demonstrate high personal resilience to change and ambiguity

**Benefits of working at Canada Life**
We believe in recognising and rewarding our people, so we offer a competitive salary and benefits package that’s regularly reviewed. As a Canada Life UK colleague, you’ll receive a competitive salary and comprehensive reward package including a generous pension and bonus scheme, along with, income protection, private medical insurance and life assurance. We have a fantastic number of other benefits and support services as well as regular personal and professional development.**How we work at Canada Life**
Our culture is unique and incredibly important to us. We