Senior Talent & Performance Leader

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

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Exposure to senior leadership

Broad remit across talent and coaching

Supportive People function

Job summary

PYVITAL Ltd is seeking a Senior Talent & Performance Manager to join its People team. The role is hybrid across UK offices, with senior stakeholder exposure and a broad remit spanning talent, succession, performance, leadership development and future skills.

You will partner with business leaders to shape frameworks, deliver practical solutions and embed a high‑performing culture that aligns with strategic priorities and inclusion objectives.

Qualifications

• 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.

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 employee experience and business impact.
• Lead talent identification, talent review and succession planning activity.
• Partner with senior leaders and HR Business Partners to build pipelines for critical roles.
• Analyse talent trends and identify capability risks.
• Develop practical actions to strengthen 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 are 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.

Job description

PYVITAL Ltd is seeking a Senior Talent & Performance Manager to join its People team. The role is hybrid across UK offices, with senior stakeholder exposure and a broad remit spanning talent, succession, performance, leadership development and future skills.

You will partner with business leaders to shape frameworks, deliver practical solutions and embed a high‑performing culture that aligns with strategic priorities and inclusion objectives.