Talent Advisor

As a Talent Advisor you will be Leading and taking ownership of the HS2 talent strategy and succession plan, including tools, frameworks and capability tools. Leading on the end-to-end talent process; defining talent, finding the right talent internally, growing talent capabilities, creating diverse talent pools through the Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) strategies and enabling the business to make the best talent decisions. This is not a talent acquisition role but will work closely with the Resourcing team to ensure robust pipelines of Talent and critical strategic capabilities across HS2.

About the role:

• Support the Talent Manager in creating the HS2 Talent Management Strategy
• Create the succession planning processes and tools
• Create talent assessment tools to enable potential to be assessed effectively and accurately, including talent development, assessment and development centres
• Oversee and coordinate the Graduates, Interns and Apprentice programmes in line with the early Talent Strategy
• Working with our existing and new HR systems to ensure that data is captured in the most effective way to support the talent strategy
• Produce talent/ succession reports in a timely fashion
• Develop strong relationship with key stakeholders within HR and across the business

About You:

• Proven capability in supporting talent, performance management, leadership and management development
• Proven capability in technologies used to capture talent/ succession data
• Proven capability in overseeing early talent programmes
• Able to demonstrate good analytical, planning and organisational skills
• CIPD Qualified or equivalent experience that would be relevant for this role.
• Knowledge of the latest thinking on talent management and succession planning
• Knowledge of good practice in relation to early talent programmes
• Knowledge of operating in a multi-cultural environment.

It is expected that you will actively promote and embed Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.

About Us:

High Speed 2 (HS2) will be the UK's new high speed rail network. As well as improving capacity, the new scheme will shorten journey times between a number of Britain's major population centres, boost the economy and create thousands of jobs.

HS2 Ltd is a safety critical organisation with safety being one of our core values. Employees are required to ensure reasonable care of their own and others' health and safety by taking personal responsibility for working to the HS2 'Safe at Heart' programme principles and following safe working procedures at all times.