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Senior Succession & Talent Manager

Aggregate function:  Human Resources
Business Area:  Vodafone Learning Organisation
Posting Country:  United Kingdom
Date Posted:  16 Apr 2024
Full Time / Part Time:  Part Time
Contract Type:  Permanent

At Vodafone, we’re working hard to build a better future. A more connected, inclusive and sustainable world. As a dynamic global community, it's our human spirit, together with technology, that empowers us to achieve this. 

We challenge and innovate in order to connect people, businesses, and communities across the world. Delighting our customers and earning their loyalty drive us, and we experiment, learn fast and get it done, together.

With us, you can be truly be yourself and belong, share inspiration, embrace new opportunities, thrive, and make a real difference.

Role purpose

(Part time position - 24 hours per a week)

 

Develop the Technology Vodafone Business & Corporate Functions leadership team & succession pool health to meet the future organisation capability and design. 
 

What you’ll do

Succession Management

  • Define succession and talent development strategy for a defined area, ensuring alignment with overall Vodafone Talent framework / business strategy.
  • Develop the Succession Pools, delivering improvements to the overall health and diversity (availability, readiness, capability, diversity and inclusion profile).
  • Assess health of ‘Head of’ top talent population, identifying appropriate interventions and overall strategy for talent development. 
  • Measure and report on the effectiveness of succession and talent management activities.

Senior leadership team

  • Lead selection assessment, onboarding, development assessment and off-boarding activities for SLTs. 
  • Lead on targeted interventions to build individual and collective capability across the SLT.

Board / Group Executive reporting

  • Provide input into the Board and Group Executive reporting on SLT (appointments, diversity) and succession management and talent development activities.

Operational 

  • Running End of Year process senior leader calibrations for 4x Corporate Functions, Group Commercial, Technology and Vodafone Business  March/April time each year  
  • Lead on the Succession and Talent Acceleration Review (STAR) packs for Technology- ensuring all data captured, accurate and stakeholder aligned. Ensuring all actions are completed.

Technology E Band Top Talent & Tech Experts

  • Lead selection assessment, onboarding, development assessment and off-boarding activities Tech Experts. 
  • Design and lead on high end Expert Talent frameworks and award panels

Who you are

  • Experience delivering talent management solutions in a complex, global organisation essential
  • Related qualifications (CIPD or Chartered Psychologist) preferable
  • Explore/advise the strategic capability requirements with the Learning & Performance and Skills teams to drive programmatic content work.​
  • Work with the HRDs / Learning & Performance BP/ HRBP to build top talent requirements and cascade frameworks.​
  • Build strategic partnership with area Leadership team to understand the priorities for SLT acquisition, development, and promotion.​
  • Drive relationship with broader Resourcing, OE & D&I teams to build alignment and drive broader succession requirement

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

What's in it for you

  • Yearly bonus: 20%
  • Company car: company funded car of £580 per month + private fuel or cash alternative of £630
  • per month.
  • Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
  • Charity days: 5 days/year
  • Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
  • Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
  • Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
  • Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan
     

Together we can

Vodafone is committed to attracting, developing and retaining the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised and rewarded. We are committed to promoting Inclusion for All with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business. We actively encourage everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey.

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