Group Technology Talent Partner

**Overview and Responsibilities**
- Partner with the Technology Exco and HR Director as the Talent SME point of contact, to provide oversight of all Talent and DEI needs - supporting both internal and external recruitment and the development of colleagues.
- Stay ahead of industry and best in class talent trends and diagnose skills requirements and emerging themes.
- Co-create and oversee the Talent Coverage delivery against plans for attracting, upskilling & reskilling the workforce.
- Contribute to the continued evolution of the Technology Employee Value Proposition to ensure longer term competitiveness.
- Provide Talent Partnering support to the head of Change & Transformation and the Change Job Family.
- This is a senior level independent contributor role within the Talent function therefore, a deep understanding of the roles that comprise the Technology job family is required, alongside providing a breadth of Talent COE/SME knowledge to advise senior stakeholders in the business and within HR.

**Purpose of the role**

To source, attract, recruit, and develop talented individuals in support of talent retention across the organisation.

**Accountabilities**
- Development and implementation of recruitment and development strategies and programmes that align with the bank’s business goals, including talent attraction and development.
- Workforce planning, forecasting and talent needs assessment to anticipate hiring and training needs.
- Development of compelling job content and training material to engage and retain top talent.
- Onboarding processes for new hires, including orientation sessions administration, to facilitate a smooth transition into the organisation.
- Monitoring and reporting of key recruitment and development metrics, including the identification of areas for improvement and optimisation.
- Stakeholder management of business leaders, talent sourcing and development firms, and professional organisations to develop a strong talent pipeline.

**Director Expectations**
- Provide expert advice to senior functional management and committees to influence decisions made outside of own function, offering significant input to function wide strategic initiatives.
- Manage, coordinate and enable resourcing, budgeting and policy creation for a significant sub-function.
- Escalates breaches of policies / procedure appropriately.
- Foster and guide compliance, ensure regulations are observed that relevant processes in place to facilitate adherence.
- Focus on the external environment, regulators, or advocacy groups to both monitor and influence on behalf of Barclays, when appropriate.
- Demonstrate extensive knowledge of how the function integrates with the business division / Group to achieve the overall business objectives.
- Maintain broad and comprehensive knowledge of industry theories and practices within own discipline alongside up-to-date relevant sector / functional knowledge, and insight into external market developments / initiatives.
- Use interpretative thinking and advanced analytical skills to solve problems and design solutions in often complex/ sensitive situations.
- Exercise management authority to make significant decisions and certain strategic decisions or recommendations within own area.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders at a senior level both internally and externally.
- Act as principal contact point for key clients and counterparts in other functions/ businesses divisions.
- Mandated as a spokesperson for the function and business division.

All Senior Leaders are expected to demonstrate a clear set of leadership behaviours to create an environment for colleagues to thrive and deliver to a consistently excellent standard. The four LEAD behaviours are: L - Listen and be authentic, E - Energise and inspire, A - Align across the enterprise, D - Develop others.

All colleagues will be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Values of Respect, Integrity, Service, Excellence and Stewardship - our moral compass, helping us do what we believe is right. They will also be expected to demonstrate the Barclays Mindset - to Empower, Challenge and Drive - the operating manual for how we behave.