Director of Talent & Development

Equans; England; Remote; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading facilities management provider is seeking a Director of Talent and Development to oversee the UK's Talent and Development strategy. This role requires strong leadership skills, experience in managing talent teams, and a commitment to operational excellence. You will be responsible for developing learning strategies aligned with business growth, while ensuring a diverse and skilled workforce. The position offers a competitive salary, benefits, and is open for applicants across the UK.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Company car or car allowance

Bonus

Private medical insurance

Gym membership discounts

Generous annual leave allowance

Broad range of learning opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience managing Talent & Development teams in a large organization.
• Proven history of simplifying delivery and improving processes.
• Strong appreciation of technical, health & safety, quality, and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Lead all aspects of the Talent & Development strategy and alignment with UK HR strategy.
• Develop the 3-5 year talent development plan focusing on learning opportunities.
• Ensure the Talent and Development teams support operational excellence.

Skills

Leadership skills

Collaboration

Coaching

Operational Excellence

Talent Strategy Development

Education

Degree in Human Resources or related field

Job description

Equans is looking for a Director of Talent and Development, responsible for delivery of the UK Talent and Development strategy for the UKBU.

This role can be based anywhere in the UK and aligned to a local office, with travel to other offices and sites required.

This is a full-time role. On offer is a competitive salary, company car or car allowance, bonus and benefits package.

As Director of Talent and Development, you will report to the UK Chief Human Resources Officer and will lead all aspects of the Talent & Development strategy whilst aligning with the UK HR strategy, HR compliance and governance and ensuring Operational Excellence underpins all delivery.

You will be responsible for ensuring that your team works effectively together with the Equans group, UK business, wider HR support, Bouygues group and provides key stakeholder management.

What will you deliver?

• Development of the 3-5-year strategy by ensuring all learning opportunities underpin, with an ongoing plan for delivery and achievement against any agreed success criteria, including propositions for unconnected employees and supporting the diversity of the UK business.

• Supporting the Equans purpose, values, and growth plans as a member of the UK HR Leadership Team.

• Providing leadership support and direction to the Talent & Development teams, ensuring strategy and plans are in place to deliver the required outcomes for the business and support its growth ambitions.

• Facilitating the UK talent boards across all divisions and feeding back to Group, where warranted including UKBU Excom succession planning & team development support

• An appreciation of HR operations, providing simplified processes that enables a fulfilment of meeting their skills gaps and always ensuring a peer review by building an annual cycle of communication and development events for all.

• A consideration of European Legislation, managing with transparency with regards to performance and talent whilst providing best practise with regards to Employment Law and providing a timetable of upskilling modules as and when required.

• A confident approach to the performance cycle with leading edge thoughts on looking beyond the standard ritual offerings and providing a clear process of development for our leaders.

• Development of a listening strategy that looks beyond the Equans Echo Survey results, providing HR colleagues with the tools and ensuring we are responsive to all our employees.

• Focus on the Learning strategy with regards to career pathways, early careers, how we reverse the current age pyramid for the future, whilst aligning with Our Fundamentals and leaning into the skill sets of our older workers.

• Working closely with the Head of Recruitment to engage the right populations at universities, colleges, and schools to create a diverse and agile future pipeline of skills, with a balance of engineering, advanced digital and AI capabilities, as well as enhancing internal opportunities with regards to a clear process for secondments.

• Continuous engagement with the Divisional CEO's to ensure the Talent and Development teams target operating model is optimised, fits their individual business needs and delivers an outstanding service to its customers, e.g. a structure to support strategic future growth and/or evolution in operational delivery

• Engagement with Equans/Bouygues Group colleagues from UK entity's view, on all global learning and development initiatives and programmes, representing the UK&I and supporting subsequent implementation and communication.

• Collaborating with operational stakeholders to drive service improvement and enhance employee upskilling to deliver operational excellence, to build and boost the FM skills set.

• Ownership of the Learning & Development budget, including managed service providers, ensuring spend is maintained within agreed limits and optimised to deliver the best service to customers, as well as considering how training programmes could increase revenue by successfully selling our products to external markets.

• Creating the Learning & Development strategy with regards to the cultural transformation of the business by having a continuous cycle with regards to accreditations that enhance our employee brand, including award nominations externally.

• Enabling our operational partners with access to accurate data through MyLearn and have transparent access to development opportunities whether statutory, essentials training, health & safety, D, E & I or leadership.

• Leading the development of the Equans management upskilling programme through the Academies, developing all managers to become people managers, and expanding the talent pipeline.

• Able to integrate across divisions a learning culture, with exposure to technology and cultivating a climate of responsibility for own development.

• A leading contributor to the CSR agenda.

• Works in partnership with the Head of HRIS, ensuring development modules meet the needs of the learner, business, and Group.

• Applies a Simplifying for You approach to all Talent & Development activities, to meet and enable Operational Excellence, Productivity and Servant Leadership within our operational teams.

What can we offer you?

On offer is a competitive salary, company car or car allowance, bonus and enhanced benefits package, which includes;

• Generous annual leave allowance (+ public holidays)
• Life Cover
• Private Medical Insurance
• Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
• Gym membership discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Holiday purchase scheme
• 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
• Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
• Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
• Access to our growing employee networks
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app

Who are you?

• Managed a range of Talent & Development teams in a large FM, or equivalent, organisation.

• Shaped a Talent & Development strategy to support operational excellence beyond the immediate needs.

• Able to develop training solutions internally and externally.

• Proven history of simplifying delivery.

• A strong appreciation of technical, health & safety, quality, and compliance.

• Previous integration experience advantageous.

• The ability to influence and coach effectively across all levels and stakeholders, internally and externally.

• A collaborator, who sets an example for others to follow.

• Action oriented, delivery focused and ability to work in an international matrix organisation.

• Experience in contributing to new system implementation projects.

• A passion for compliance and quality, in turn creating positive impact on learning environments.

• Strong leadership skills and listening skills.

Who are we?

In the UK & Ireland, Equans is a provider of sustainable facilities management and regeneration, and cutting-edge energy and digital services. Our 15,000 employees combine these activities to deliver decarbonisation across the built environment and help businesses, communities, public sector organisations and government to accelerate the transition to a low carbon, resilient world.

Globally, Equans is a world leader in the energy and services sector with operations in 20 countries, 90,000 employees working on 5 continents and a turnover of 19.2 billion euros in 2024. Equans is a subsidiary of the Bouygues group.

Our ambition

At Equans, we are driven by our ambition to be recognised for our operational excellence and as the best place to work for our employees. This commitment extends to achieving global and sustainable performance through Impact, ensuring that everything we do aligns with our core values-Accountability, Respect, Team Spirit, and Service Focus.

We take ownership, act with integrity, and set high standards. We listen, support, and care for one another. We collaborate and build trust to achieve shared goals, always striving to meet our customers' needs in a proactive and pragmatic way. These values shape our culture, strengthen our community, and inspire us to deliver excellence every day.

What's next?

If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.

As part our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.

At Equans we're committed to delivering a culture where everyone's voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you'll find a welcoming and open workplace where you're supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.

You'll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), Veterans & Reservists, WOMEN Together (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.

For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a re-location package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.

The Equans Resourcing Team manage this requirement. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries should come to the resourcing team not direct to Equans Managers.