Talent Management Lead

The Talent Management Lead is a senior subject matter expert role responsible for shaping and embedding UKAEAs organisationwide approach to talent management. Operating with a high degree of autonomy the role leads the design delivery and continuous improvement of frameworks that strengthen succession planning capability development and transparent career pathways across both leadership and technical tracks. Through robust analysis and professional judgement the post holder influences workforce strategy supports longterm organisational resilience and enables evidencebased talent decisions.

Working closely with senior leaders and colleagues across People & Culture the role acts as a trusted advisor providing expert insight that supports strategic decisionmaking and the effective deployment of capability across the organisation.

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Core responsibilities

• Define and embed the organisations approach to talent aligned to strategy values and future capability needs.
• Design and implement evidence-based approaches to identify high-potential individuals critical skills and business-essential talent.
• Provide insight tools and analysis to assess talent positioning capability gaps and succession risks enabling data-driven decisions.
• Lead the design and delivery of a consistent evidence-based succession planning framework for critical roles.
• Develop methodologies tools and standards to support organisation-wide succession planning and inform senior decision-making.
• Produce dashboards and analyse complex data to generate actionable workforce and succession insights.
• Develop frameworks and insights to shape targeted development pathways for key talent pools.
• Provide capability data and analysis to inform Learning & Development strategy and interventions.
• Create tools and guidance (with People & Culture CoEs) to embed stretch rotational and experiential development.
• Assess and benchmark capability practices to design a cohesive enterprise-wide capability and competency framework.
• Design transparent career pathways across leadership and technical/expert tracks.
• Establish talent governance manage dashboards and reporting align with Reward/Job Evaluation and ensure compliance with organisational policies.

Qualifications :

• Extensive experience in Talent Management Organisational Development or related HR disciplines operating as a subject-matter expert in complex or regulated environments.
• Proven expertise in designing and embedding talent identification succession planning capability frameworks and career pathways.
• Strong experience integrating competency frameworks across selection performance development and progression.
• Track record of influencing senior leaders and shaping strategic workforce decisions policy and frameworks.
• High data literacy with the ability to interpret workforce analytics build dashboards and generate insight-led recommendations.
• Experience delivering complex organisation-wide programmes with cross-functional scope.
• Degree-level qualification (or equivalent experience) in Organisational Psychology HR or OD with ongoing professional development in relevant areas.

Additional Information :

A full list of our benefits can be found here but highlights include: 

• 64115 base salary inclusive of specialist allowance 
• 7% corporate performance bonus 
• Final salary defined benefit scheme with an equivalent of21.5% employer pension contribution 
• 25 days annual leave plus 3 days Christmas closure 2.5 privilege days and 8 Bank Holidays 
• Flexible working options plus family friendly leave 

UKAEAs mission is clean energy for all and we welcome talented people from all backgrounds to help us achieve this goal. We are committed to equality diversity and inclusion and strive to ensure fair representation across our workforce. We particularly encourage applications from groups currently underrepresented in STEM including women and individuals from diverse ethnic backgrounds while ensuring all appointments are made on merit. Further information can be found here.  

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time