Senior Talent & Performance Leader

PYVITAL

Greater London

Hybrid

GBP 90,000 - 120,000

Full time

9 days ago

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Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working across UK locations

Exposure to senior leadership

Career development opportunities

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

PYVITAL is seeking a Senior Talent & Performance Manager to lead the talent, performance and leadership development agenda within the People team. You’ll work with senior leaders to strengthen pipelines, succession planning and career progression.

This senior, hands-on role blends strategic thinking with practical delivery, designing frameworks, influencing stakeholders and delivering solutions that align with current priorities and future workforce needs.

Qualifications

Significant experience within Talent Management, Performance Management or Leadership Development
Proven 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

Responsibilities

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
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
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
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
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