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Talent & Development Partner
Department: People
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: UK - London
Description
As Talent & Development Partner at CFC, you’ll shape and deliver our enterprise-wide talent and development strategy, bringing a clear focus on leadership capability, succession, and organisational impact that goes beyond traditional L&D.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll turn strategy into action, designing and embedding high-impact programmes that elevate performance and accelerate internal mobility. You’ll lead on leadership development and high-potential programmes, ensuring everything you deliver is aligned to business priorities and makes a measurable difference.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll turn strategy into action, designing and embedding high-impact programmes that elevate performance and accelerate internal mobility. You’ll lead on leadership development and high-potential programmes, ensuring everything you deliver is aligned to business priorities and makes a measurable difference.
Key Responsibilities
- Partner closely with the Head of Talent & Development to deliver a consistent, high-impact approach to talent and succession planning across the business.
- Design and deliver leadership development programmes (including Management Essentials and Emerging Leaders) that build capability, strengthen performance, and support long-term growth.
- Lead the annual talent review process for senior populations, working with HRBPs and business leaders to identify future successors, assess readiness, and define clear, actionable development plans; evolving frameworks in line with business growth.
- Develop targeted pathways for high-potential talent; accelerating readiness for critical roles; strengthening leadership and specialist pipelines.
- Promote internal mobility by shaping clear, practical career pathways, working in partnership to ensure frameworks are relevant, accessible, and used across the business.
- Use talent data and insight to inform workforce planning, identify gaps, and guide decision-making.
- Support the ongoing development of CFC’s performance framework, ensuring it is clear, practical, and aligned to business priorities.
- Lead the annual performance cycle; driving clarity, consistency, and strong adoption across teams.
- Equip leaders with the tools and confidence to set meaningful goals and have effective performance and development conversations.
- Track impact through data and feedback; using insight to continuously improve the effectiveness of talent and performance initiatives.
- Support calibration and governance processes to ensure fairness, consistency, and rigour across the organisation.
- Refresh tools and templates to improve usability; and bring the experience in line with a more modern, best-in-class Talent & Development function.
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
- Experience in financial services, insurance, or a fast-paced commercial environment, with a clear understanding of how talent drives business performance.
- Proven track record delivering leadership and high-potential programmes that strengthen capability and support progression.
- Strong experience in succession planning and talent reviews, able to run credible, pragmatic processes with senior stakeholders.
- Data-led in approach, using insight to inform decisions and measure impact.
- A confident facilitator and collaborator, able to influence, manage priorities, and deliver at pace.
- Experience working with external partners and learning tools, with a focus on quality, relevance, and value.
- A clear communicator with a commercial, outcome-focused mindset.