Performance and Progression Assistant Manager, Partner Matters, Enabling Functions – 12 Month S[...]

Deloitte LLP; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global consulting firm in the UK is seeking an Assistant Manager to enhance partner performance management processes. In this role, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure effective performance evaluations and contribute to continuous service improvement. Ideal candidates should have a strong background in HR or performance management and excellent communication skills. This position offers growth within a supportive team environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working policy

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven experience relevant to performance management.
• Ability to build trusting relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Support delivery of partner performance experience throughout the annual cycle.
• Update performance experience documentation to reflect new approaches.
• Analyze data and maintain the Partner reviewer list.

Skills

Collaboration

Attention to detail

Analytical skills

Inter-personal communication

Commercial acumen

Education

Experience at Advisor/Assistant Manager level

Experience in HR or performance management

Job description

Connect to your Industry

This exciting role offers a great opportunity to help shape and deliver the performance management and progression portfolio for our partners. Performance Management plays a critical role in our partners’ experience within the firm and is essential to driving high performance across the partnership.

Belfast, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Milton Keynes, Newcastle, Reading

Business Line

Enabling Functions

Job Type

Permanent / FTC

Date published

28-Oct-2025

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Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, we help our clients' become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make everyday. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, welead the way,serve with integrity, take care of each other ,fosterinclusion, andcollaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Connect to your opportunity

There is an opportunity for a strong Assistant Manager to join the team, focused on partner performance and progression. Working closely with the performance and progression managers, you will have key responsibilities for supporting the delivery of the partner performance experience, throughout the annual cycle, including goal setting, mid-year, and year-end performance evaluations.

We are continuously working to enhance the partner’s performance experience and deliver quality outcomes. You will be involved in executing our ambitions for the partner performance experience and making sure that process updates are integrated seamlessly into our performance cycle and processes. The role requires strong and productive working relationships with stakeholders across the Business, Finance and HR and is an exciting opportunity to gain critical operational experience, working in a high performing team, with the firm’s most senior people.

Some key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Reviewing and updating all performance experience guidance documentation to reflect refreshed approaches;
• Updating and maintaining all performance experience articles in the Partner knowledge base (Service Now), ensuring a user friendly and positive experience for our Partners;
• Supporting the Performance and Progression Managers with key deliverables across the performance experience (goal setting, mid-year and year-end) including stakeholder engagement, creation of presentations, updating comms and materials, ownership of Teams sites;
• Managing and analysing the data required to support across the partner performance experience, including the maintenance of the Partner reviewer list, ownership of year-end peering data inputs, preparation of Partner Matters peering tool for use in peering meetings and monitoring goal setting completion rates;
• Supporting with the delivery of the promotion process into Equity Group 1, including setting the timeline, updating comms and materials and management of the Teams site.
• Owning the maintenance and updates required to the Partner Performance forms (Nintex system), including close collaboration with the development team and 1:1 support for stakeholders and Partners to resolve queries;
• Developing and maintaining strong working relationships with stakeholders at all levels, across HR, Partner Support Services, Finance, as well as across the Business including Chiefs of Staff and Business/Market leadership teams;
• Owning and maintaining the shared Partner Matters mailbox;
• Supporting the exploration and, where possible, leverage of digital solutions and AI into the performance processes;
• Contributing to continuous service improvement, identifying ways to streamline processes and improve the partner experience.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

• Demonstrated capability and experience at an Advisor/ Assistant Manager level.
• Ability to work collaboratively and build trusting relationships with senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrate a high level of attention to detail and deliver quality in all work, particularly in the creation of formal and informal deliverables. In addition, being analytical and able to work with, understand and present information and data.
• Have strong inter-personal skills, including verbal and written communication (including reports and presentations).
• Be professional in approach – instilling confidence that they can operate in sensitive environments with ease and handle confidential data appropriately.
• Demonstrate an appropriate level of commercial acumen expected of an Assistant Manager and be able to connect that to the role, our purpose, the decisions we make and the relationships that are established.
• Be able to work alone or part of the team and leverage resources where appropriate. Be responsive, adaptable, and open to change – doing what’s required to get the job done. You will be willing to learn, open to feedback and prepared to be challenged.
• Demonstrated experience in a talent-related field, such as HR, learning, talent, reward, or performance management.
• Understanding of our firm and its structure (internal and market facing) with an awareness of the key features and attributes of our partnership.

Connect to your business - Enabling Functions

Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. From IT to HR, marketing and more, our teams help to support the wider business in everything they do. Bringing your individual skills and specialist knowledge, you can make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

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"The amount of investment in me in terms of training and development has been incredible - it has undoubtedly helped me to progress my career." -Jim, Enabling Functions

Our hybrid working policy

You’ll be based in one of our UK offices with hybrid working.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That’s why we’ll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you’ll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You’ll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.

Connect your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers