Talent Density Lead

About this opportunity

Join us as Talent Density Lead, where you'll be supporting our Executive leadership sustainability through planning and pipelining of key talent, today and into the future! This role is primarily responsible for owning and running the Group’s annual Executive Succession and Talent Governance cycle, supporting Nomination & Governance Committee (NomCo) and Board submission. There is a need for deep talent management expertise and direct contact with People Directors and GEC members to identify and develop extraordinary talent.

Key accountabilities:

• Preparation and leading the end-to-end annual Executive Talent Review cycle (ETR) at various points throughout the year, partnering with People Directors and Senior Executives to support information gathering and presentation of finalised data to Group Executive Committee (GEC).

• Ownership of the Executive Succession Planning process for critical and specialised business roles and talent segments across SLT.

• Regular contact with high potential talent, coaching and facilitating their career development plans, implementing proactive support to retain and engage them, specific focus on deepening relationships with high potentials and integrating our services and products across the relevant business areas.

• Developmental support for successors, plus role selection support for key developmental positions (e.g. Regional ambassadors).

• Work with high touch assessment team to handle the cross-collaborative work, including nominations and selection onto key talent programmes and successor events (e.g. GEC drinks).

• Understand individual’s professional considerations to act as the agent/handler for high potential individuals in talent calibrations and conversations, including succession planning, ETRs, nominations for talent programmes, mobility and retention conversations.

• Coordinate the nomination and calibration processes for talent processes and activity for non-Executive colleagues partnering within a specific business area.

• Facilitate the implementation of the talent strategy, ensuring alignment with company goals and addressing specific needs of a business areas, aligned to the demand plans of our business.

• Drive a culture of career development and skills mobility, crafting and delivering talent management solutions that align with business area needs.

• Track and support the progress of colleagues identified for accelerated career development through coaching and broad advocacy activities.

• Deeply understand the talent, strategic workforce plan and capability required within the aligned business area, recognising individual strengths and potential, encouraging the growth and integration of all talent pipelines, including youth and next generation talent.

• Act as ambassador for the Talent Density and Growth Team to work with People Partners to drive awareness and practically support talent management activities.

• Work with the Talent Management Platform (Marketplace) to interpret and share talent data across segments and business units.

• Maintain awareness of talent metrics and insight data to build business unit/cohort/segment analysis and planning and to feed into strategic workforce planning and OD activities as required.

• Infuse fresh, external perspectives into talent management strategy and approach! Being well networked based on respective business area to enable benchmarking.

Why Lloyds Banking Group?

Like the modern Britain we serve, we’re evolving. Investing billions in our people, data and tech to transform the way we meet the ever-changing needs of our 26 million customers. We’re growing with purpose. Join us on our journey and you will too…

What you’ll need

• Skilled and experienced talent management professional, with a deep developmental eye on individual and team growth. Significant experience in talent management is essential.

• Credibility, gravitas and influencing ability to operate at most senior levels of organisation, and strong customer centricity to support engagement and management of senior talent populations.

• Knowledge and experience of succession planning and how to build talent pools/pipelines at a global level.

• Outstanding individual leadership coaching skills, with psychometric assessment experience to deliver ongoing career development support and to step in when necessary to hold psychometric debrief conversations.

• Strong talent data analysis skills, with an ability to read, analyse and interpret data and translate it for the business and People Partners.

• Dedicated, adept at juggling multiple priorities while staying focused on objectives, and able to navigate seamlessly between the strategic and hands-on nature of the role.

• Resilient and adaptable, capable of delivering results in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

About working for us

Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities, and we’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop.

We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles, create a menopause health package, and a dedicated Working with Cancer Initiative.

We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. And, as a Disability Confident Leader, we guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.

We provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process to reduce or remove barriers. Just let us know what you need.

We also offer a wide-ranging benefits package, which includes:

• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%

• An annual performance-related bonus

• Share schemes including free shares

• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping

• 30 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top

• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies

If you’re excited by the thought of becoming part of our team, get in touch. We’d love to hear from you.