Talent and Development Partner

Talent Davelopment Partner Hybrid Permanent

Hours: 37.5 hours, Monday to Friday

Location : Hybrid

Benefits and perks:

• Animpressive holiday allowancethat rises in line with your years of service.
• Additional day offfor your birthday so you can celebrate in style.
• Death in Serviceallowance to ensure your loved ones are provided for in the event of tragedy.
• Spend those crucial moments with your new-born baby with ourenhanced Maternity and Paternity leave.
• Complimentary day of annual leaveto cherish unmissable family moments - could be graduation, first day of school.
• Look after your wellbeing with access to ahealth and wellness program.
• Make the most of'Medicash Perks at Work'- a tool for CitySprint colleagues to enjoy a variety of high-street discounts and rewards.
• Ourride to workscheme means you can keep fit while saving money - what's not to like?!

Who are we?

CitySprint is on a Fast track to become the UK's leading courier services provider, with current market domination of the Same day service areas already.

Through regular investment in our people, our service offering and our customer proposition, we are paving the way for courier services to be more intuitive, more capable, and more responsive to our customers' needs than ever before!

Being this awesome takes a lot of hard work and commitment to our company values and vision. So naturally we need to secure top-notch talent to ensure we continue growing and improving every day.

Role Summary

CitySprint is seeking a dynamic and experienced Talent and Development Partner to play a critical role in driving colleague growth and engagement. You will partner with business leaders to identify talent and development needs, implementing our talent strategy and delivering impactful management, leadership, and talent programmes aligned to our people and business strategy.

Key Responsibilities

• Enhance and drive manager and leader capability to deliver performance and engagement across all teams.

• Collaborate with business leaders and HR teams to assess talent and capability gaps, ensuring these are addressed with the right learning solutions.

• Lead, design, develop, and deliver learning and development programmes tailored to individual, team, and business needs.

• Support talent identification and development, prioritising delegates to focus on business-critical needs.

• Support the performance management process, providing coaching for managers and leaders.

• Analyse talent metrics and provide insights to inform strategic business resource planning.

• Facilitate workshops, training events, and coaching conversations as part of broader programmes to build capability across the business.

• Partner with external providers and internal stakeholders to source and deliver learning solutions.

• Embed CitySprint values across all learning solutions.

• Stay up-to-date on talent and development trends and best practices to continually enhance the colleague learning and development experience.

• Evaluate all learning and development interventions, recommending continuous improvements in content and delivery.

• Innovate and automate learning solutions to maximise impact.

Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• Proven expertise in management and leadership development and performance management.

• Strong understanding of talent management frameworks and adult learning principles.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to influence at all levels.

• Strong relationship building and stakeholder management capabilities.

• Experience in learning solution design, delivery, and evaluation.

• Proactive, highly organised, results-oriented, flexible, and driven.

• Experience in career pathway design and development.

• Competence as a coach and facilitator.

• Engaging and energetic delivery style.

• Ability to use initiative in identifying areas for improvement and implementing practical solutions.

• Commercial acumen with the ability to connect and align activities to business needs.

• Attention to detail and accuracy.

• Excellent customer focus.

• Strong project management skills.

• Budget awareness and understanding.

• CIPD or equivalent qualification.

• Psychometric Practitioner Accreditation (Insights, Hoga, MBTI, Saville, Level A&B BPS).

• Relevant training qualification - CPP.

Why Join CitySprint?

At CitySprint, you will be part of a forward-thinking team driving performance, engagement, and career growth. You will have the opportunity to shape our talent strategy, work with senior leaders, and create a lasting impact on our people and business.