Head of Talent Strategy & Succession

Tesco PLC; Ayot Green; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus up to 20%

25 days holiday + personal day

Private medical insurance

Maternity leave 26 weeks

Paternity leave 6 weeks

24/7 virtual GP

Employee Assistance Programme

Job summary

Tesco Stores Limited is seeking a senior leader to own and drive the Group's talent and succession strategy. You will translate priorities into practical action, align markets and functions, and build robust leadership pipelines across the organisation.

You will oversee talent reviews, governance, and the use of data to guide decisions, while partnering with external talent providers and delivering measurable outcomes that support Tesco's strategy.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in talent management and succession planning.
• Experience partnering with senior leaders on leadership pipelines and critical talent.
• Experience designing and embedding enterprise-wide talent approaches.
• Experience leading talent reviews, governance and succession discussions.
• Experience using talent insight and data to inform decisions and actions.
• Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and stakeholders.
• Experience working with external talent partners.

Responsibilities

• Lead Tesco's Group approach to talent and succession, ensuring leadership pipelines and critical talent support current and future business priorities.
• Own the Group talent planning and succession approach, creating consistency in how talent is identified, reviewed, developed and moved across Tesco.
• Translate Group talent priorities into practical action, ensure markets, functions and people teams are aligned on the outcomes that matter most.
• Drive stronger succession for critical and senior leadership roles by identifying risks, improving readiness and building diverse talent pipelines.
• Lead Group talent reviews and governance ensuring talent priorities are visible, discussed and translated into clear actions.
• Use talent insight, data and external market intelligence to identify risks, inform decisions and improve talent outcomes.
• Lead the ongoing development and embedding of Tesco's approach to careers, potential and talent management.
• Build strong partnership across Markets, Functions, Executive Resourcing, Capability, Workforce Planning, DE&I and business partnering teams to deliver joined-up talent outcomes.
• Provide expert talent advice, challenge and guidance to the Group talent community, building capability and improving the quality of talent and succession decisions.
• Bring external insight to continuously evolve Tesco's approach to talent, succession and careers.
• Lead the partnership with Tesco's external strategic talent partner.

Skills

Talent management

Succession planning

Leadership partnering

Enterprise talent strategy

Talent analytics

Cross-functional leadership

External talent partnerships

Job description

Tesco Stores Limited is seeking a senior leader to own and drive the Group's talent and succession strategy. You will translate priorities into practical action, align markets and functions, and build robust leadership pipelines across the organisation.

You will oversee talent reviews, governance, and the use of data to guide decisions, while partnering with external talent providers and delivering measurable outcomes that support Tesco's strategy.