Senior Talent and Performace Manager

PYVITAL; United Kingdom; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Exposure to senior leadership

Job summary

PYVITAL is seeking a Senior Talent & Performance Manager to join its People team. You will shape talent, performance and leadership development, partnering with senior leaders to build strong pipelines and robust succession plans.

This is a senior, hands-on role combining strategic thinking with practical delivery. You will drive the organisation's performance framework, foster continuous feedback, and embed career development across the business, aligning with current priorities and future

Qualifications

• Significant experience in Talent Management, Performance Management or Leadership Development.
• Proven ability to design and deliver talent, succession or career programmes.
• Strong stakeholder management and change management capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Lead development of the organisation's performance framework and annual processes.
• Foster a culture of continuous feedback and high-quality performance conversations.
• Evaluate initiatives using feedback, data and insight.
• Identify opportunities to improve employee experience and business impact.
• Lead talent identification, review and succession planning activities.
• Partner with senior leaders to build pipelines for critical roles.
• Analyze talent trends and drive leadership and succession readiness.
• Design and deliver talent, leadership and career development programmes.
• Support and streamline promotion processes for senior levels.
• Develop workforce planning and talent insight dashboards.
• Translate people data into actionable recommendations for senior stakeholders.
• Collaborate with DE&I and other functions to improve representation and progression.

Skills

Talent management

Performance management

Leadership development

Stakeholder management

People data

Change management

Strategic thinking

Job description

Location: Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Northampton or London (Hybrid Working)

Salary: Competitive + Benefits

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent

About the Role:

We’re recruiting for a Senior Talent & Performance Manager to join the People team of a leading UK law firm. This is a senior, hands-on role responsible for shaping and delivering the organisation’s talent, performance and leadership development agenda.

Working closely with senior business leaders, HR Business Partners and the wider People function, you’ll help build a high-performing, future-ready workforce by strengthening talent pipelines, improving succession planning, supporting career progression and embedding a culture of meaningful performance conversations.

This role combines strategic thinking with practical delivery, so you’ll be expected to move confidently between designing frameworks, influencing senior stakeholders and implementing solutions that support both current business priorities and future workforce needs.

Key Responsibilities:

Performance & High-Performance Culture

• Lead the ongoing development of the organisation’s performance framework and annual performance processes
• Drive a culture of continuous feedback, accountability and high-quality performance conversations
• Evaluate the effectiveness of performance initiatives using feedback, data and insight
• Identify opportunities to improve both employee experience and business impact

Talent Management & Succession Planning

• Lead talent identification, talent review and succession planning activity
• Partner with senior leaders and HR Business Partners to build strong pipelines for critical roles
• Analyse talent trends and identify organisational capability risks
• Develop practical actions to strengthen future leadership and succession readiness
• Design and deliver talent, leadership and career development programmes
• Identify capability priorities with business leaders and HR teams
• Develop targeted interventions to support progression, growth and succession
• Evaluate programme effectiveness and continuously improve content and outcomes

Promotions & Career Progression

• Support and enhance promotion processes, including senior and Partner-level promotions
• Ensure promotion processes remain fair, transparent, inclusive and commercially aligned
• Provide insight and recommendations to support effective promotion and talent decisions
• Help strengthen career pathways and progression opportunities across the organisation

Future Skills & Organisational Capability

• Identify emerging skills and capability requirements linked to future business strategy
• Partner with HR, Emerging Talent and business leaders to develop future-focused interventions
• Support talent strategies for key populations and emerging talent pathways
• Help ensure the workforce is prepared for changing capability and skills requirements

Workforce Planning & Talent Insight

• Support workforce planning activity alongside Finance, HR and senior business stakeholders
• Contribute talent and capability insight to future workforce decisions
• Develop dashboards, metrics and reporting to identify talent trends and risks
• Translate people data into clear, practical recommendations for senior stakeholders
• Ensure talent, performance, succession and promotion approaches support inclusion objectives
• Work with DE&I colleagues to improve representation and progression outcomes
• Support communication, engagement and change management around new talent initiatives
• Develop guidance, resources and toolkits to support adoption
• Bring external best practice and innovation into the talent and performance agenda

Candidate Profile:

• Significant experience within Talent Management, Performance Management or Leadership Development
• Proven experience designing and delivering talent, succession or career development programmes
• Strong experience partnering with senior leaders and influencing talent decisions
• Excellent stakeholder management and change management capability
• Strong ability to use people data and insight to drive decision-making
• Experience working within a complex, fast-paced organisation
• Strategic and commercially minded, with the ability to translate business priorities into practical talent solutions
• Collaborative, curious and solutions-focused
• Experience supporting workforce planning or strategic capability initiatives
• Background within legal, professional services, consulting, financial services or another partnership-led environment
• Experience supporting senior or Partner promotion processes
• Experience developing talent dashboards, metrics and workforce insight reporting

What Our Client Offers:

• Hybrid working across multiple UK office locations
• Opportunity to shape a high-profile talent and performance agenda
• Direct exposure to senior leadership and key business stakeholders
• Broad remit across talent, succession, performance, leadership development and future skills
• Supportive and collaborative People function