Overview
Talent Partner – Booker Group
Location: Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, NN8 1LT
Shift Hours: 38 hrs per week (Mon – Fri)
Salary: Competitive
Are you passionate about developing future leaders and shaping talent strategy across a complex, fast paced business?
We’re looking for an experienced Talent Partner to lead talent and succession planning across Booker Group. This is a highly visible role where you’ll work closely with senior leaders to identify future capability needs, strengthen leadership pipelines and create meaningful development opportunities for colleagues
You’ll be at the heart of how we build future talent, using insight, data and business priorities to shape practical talent plans that make a real difference. Working across Booker and the wider Tesco Group, you’ll help ensure we have the leadership capability, succession strength and talent pipelines needed to deliver our ambitions.
If you enjoy influencing senior stakeholders, turning insight into action and helping colleagues reach their full potential, we’d love to hear from you.
- Leading the Booker talent and succession planning cycle, helping leaders identify critical roles, strengthen succession plans and develop future talent.
- Partnering with senior leaders, People Partners and the People Director to build and deliver a talent strategy aligned to business priorities.
- Using colleague insight, talent data and business performance indicators to identify risks, opportunities and areas for investment.
- Equipping managers and People Partners to confidently deliver talent, development and career conversations.
- Driving fair, transparent and inclusive talent processes that create opportunities for colleagues across the business.
- Working closely with Learning & Development, Talent Acquisition and Organisation Development teams to align talent priorities with future capability needs.
- Creating and facilitating career development opportunities, secondments and cross-functional moves across Booker and the wider Tesco Group.
- Acting as Booker’s key connection into wider Tesco Group Talent teams, ensuring best practice, consistency and continuous improvement across talent programmes.
- Experience in Talent Management, Talent Development, HR Business Partnering or a similar people focused role.
- Strong knowledge of talent planning, succession management and leadership development.
- Experience working with senior stakeholders and influencing decision making through insight and evidence.
- The ability to interpret colleague feedback, talent data and business priorities to create practical solutions.
- Excellent facilitation, coaching and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and programmes simultaneously.
- Confidence using people systems to analyse data and communicate insights.
- A collaborative approach and a passion for building an inclusive culture where colleagues can thrive.
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