Future Talent Lead

Phoenix; Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading long-term savings and retirement firm in Birmingham is seeking a Future Talent Lead to drive innovative early careers strategies. This role involves designing programs to attract and nurture exceptional talent, enhancing employer brand, and ensuring alignment with organizational needs. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in future talent programs and a strong ability to collaborate across teams. A competitive salary of £70,000 - £80,000, plus bonuses and benefits, is offered.

Benefits

16% bonus up to 32%

Private medical cover

38 days annual leave

Excellent pension

12x salary life assurance

Income protection

3x volunteering days

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Early Careers/Future talent.
• Ability to take an enterprise-wide view while balancing operational delivery.
• Innovative approach to designing modern skills-aligned programmes.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver Future Talent proposition aligned to workforce needs.
• Design and develop Future Talent programmes across the group.
• Measure programme effectiveness and use insights for continuous improvement.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Data analysis

Program design

Job description

Job Description

Job Type: Permanent

Location: This role will spend time working from the office and from home, with a contractual location of either Birmingham or Edinburgh

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process. You can read more about Phoenix Flex here.

Closing Date: Friday 24th October – please apply early as we’re reviewing applications as they come in!

Salary and benefits: £70,000 - £80,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked. We’re Phoenix Group, we’re a long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

We are looking for a Future Talent Lead to join our Employer Brand & Future Talent team. You’ll be a forward-thinking, passionate expert who can design, deliver and continuously enhance our Future Talent/Early Careers strategy. This role will be responsible for all Future Talent programmes across the group, ensuring we attract, nurture and retain exceptional talent who will shape the future of our business. This is a critical role that will design programmes which build the skills we need for the future and to help us meet our objectives of building a diverse and equitable organisation. It’s a fantastic and unique opportunity to rethink and build a brand-new proposition for a FTSE 100 organisation.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Design: Define and deliver our Future Talent proposition, aligned to the organisation’s workforce needs and long-term goals. This role will connect the dots across strategic workforce planning, talent, learning, DEI and organisational design to develop programmes that will deliver business outcomes and a fantastic colleague experience
• Programme Management: Design and develop programmes and initiatives across the group, ensuring they are aligned to the skills and capabilities we need in the future
• Oversee delivery: Working with third parties in-house teams to manage the delivery of all recruitment, learning and development activity, supported by an in-house Future Talent Coordinator
• Employer brand and experience: Work with the wider employer brand and future talent team to strengthen our brand in the early careers/future talent market and ensuring our programmes are aligned to our broader employer brand strategy and employer value proposition
• Data & Continuous improvement: Measure programme effectiveness such as progression, performance, retention, engagement, diversity and return on investment. Use insights and learnings to continuously evolve our approach
• Championing Future Talent as we develop the proposition: Drive awareness of our Future Talent strategy, using it as a strategic lever to ensure we are attracting and developing the skills we need for the future

What are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will be both strategic and hands‑on. You will be capable of building strong partnerships across the organisation, driving innovative approaches to strategy, programme design, recruitment and talent development which in turn will create an outstanding experience for our candidates, colleagues and leaders.

Skills

• Ability to take an enterprise-wide view whilst balancing the oversight of operational delivery
• Ability to use data and insight to shape programme design and measure outcomes
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills

Knowledge And Experience

• Significant experience in Early Careers/Future talent and designing an enterprise-wide proposition
• An innovative approach and ability to design modern and skills aligned programmes and interventions
• Deep understanding of how future talent/early careers programmes work in a large, complex environment and can both design programmes and oversee the delivery such as recruitment and learning

We Want To Hire The Whole Version Of You.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you. If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best. We’re reviewing applications as they come in, so apply early to avoid missing out.

Find out more about

• Guide for Candidates: thephoenixgroup.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
• Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.thephoenixgroup.com/careers/talk-to-us