Talent Consultant

**Talent Consultant**
- 220009TH)

**Flexible hybrid working from home & field based.**

In the Talent Team, we relish the opportunity to make a difference and we’re passionate about what we do and how we can support the Group 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.

As a Talent Consultant you will play a supporting role in ensuring all activity is aligned to the retail priorities and corporate strategy, ensuring we have the right level of resource, skills, experience, and succession in the right place.

You will support and coach the Talent Delivery Consultants in your team but report into a Head of Talent to co create and implement actions from the London zones talent plan that covers our 5 key strategy talent specialisms. You will be responsible for project managing the coordination of all the strategies, delivering elements of the talent plan to identify future talent requirements, and support regions across the zone with recruitment and resource plans.

**More about the role**
- Support the Heads of Talent to develop and execute talent strategies where required and in doing so feedback ideas and suggestions to support ongoing development. This can be supported by you bringing external market knowledge and insight into team discussions to support them with their strategy development.
- With a deep understanding of the retail priorities and objectives support the Heads of Talent with talent plan task allocations to the Talent Delivery Consultants. This will ensure resource is flexed appropriately based on lead talent specialism priorities and business needs.
- Provide regions with the relevant recruitment support at key points throughout the year such as Christmas, Black Friday, Easter etc. This will also include detailed support where teams may need specific sourcing action plans, you will work with our recruitment centre of excellence on these plans.
- Work with the corporate MI/Analysts teams to define the data and reports required for the Heads of Talent, track performance against MI & data, producing key insights for the area.
- Coach the retail teams to become confident and expert to fully understand the talent and learning offer, using reports and insight to drive relevant activity and coaching
- Share best practice and network with other TCs/Talent Delivery Consultants ensuring all teams work collaboratively and share ideas across the zone
- Support the Heads of Talent with active listening, driving communication and championing activities across the zone.

**What you need to know and show**
- A good understanding of HR disciplines (both internal & external) including talent management, colleague engagement, inclusion and recruitment, with a proven track record of taking deliverables and aligning them to the right team member
- A good understanding of talent and learning development processes, models and mythologies and can bring these to life
- Understand Retail and Sainsbury’s culture - using insight into the way the business and zone operates to get things done
- Ability to work independently and proactively, prioritising and managing workload to agreed timescales
- Set and pursue guidance without direction and able to manage workload and conflicting priorities
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills and the ability to create and source information for presentations. Have credible and confident presentation style, able to move from explaining to engaging
- Ability to work effectively and collaboratively with Centres of Excellence and across broad teams
- Displays mature and grounded confidence in the presence of senior people, responding in an appropriate manner to criticism and remaining optimistic in the face of obstacles
- Good project management skills and attention to detail, with the ability to interpret, analyse, and use large amounts of data
- Ability to problem solve and demonstrate operational and strategic skills

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 bonus scheme, holiday allowance, pension, a save as you earn scheme and colleague discounts at Sainsbury's, Argos, and Habitat

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 deliv