Head of Talent Development

Contract Type:

Job Title: Head of Talent Development

People Leader: People Director

Business Area: People

Grade: G

Who we are

Belron UK Ltd (trading as Autoglass® and Laddaw®) are part of the global Belron® group of companies, the world's leading vehicle glass repair and replacement business. Home to 29,000 employees, Belron operates across over 40 countries and 6 continents to ensure all our customers receive the best quality service.

Our Values of Caring, Genuine, Collaborative and Driven are our DNA and underpin everything we do by shaping how we interact with our people internally, and our external partners and customers.

Our purpose as one of the Belron® group of companies, is making a difference with real care.

Role Purpose

Reporting to the People Director, this role is accountable for the development and delivery of Learning & Development for Belron UK, and developing strategies to enable colleague retention and engagement, linked to an organisational culture that inspires and enable our people to make a difference

At the heart of this role, and as part of the overall People strategy, the role holder will be responsible for leading the Learning & Development strategy for Belron UK, ensuring a ‘growth’ mindset is embedded in our culture, supported by an end- to-end programme of learning solutions across all roles, up to and including senior leadership level.

The role holder will lead our talent development agenda, ensuring that we have the right leadership and people capabilities in place to support continued business success. Driving the agenda in partnership with People Business Partners and Business Leaders to achieve our strategic goals, there

will be strong emphasis on building capability and performance across all roles. The role will also have a keen focus on strengthening the leadership succession pipeline to drive a high-performance culture, during a time of significant transformational change and business growth.

Working closely with the People Director, this role holder will also help drive our cultural plans, with a focus on developing a diverse and inclusive workplace, developing a strong employer value proposition to enable us to attract and retain the best people to our organisation. Through world-class listening strategies, the role holder will also take a lead position in supporting the development of our engagement strategy to enable Belron UK to deliver an inspiring and exceptional people experience, measured against best-in-class organisations.

Providing thought leadership on the full spectrum of this discipline, which includes, development of our Employer Value Proposition, onboarding, performance management, coaching, talent development and succession, engagement and retention, the role holder will lead a team of subject matter experts who will work with the business to enable our ambitious growth plans and support our purpose of making a difference with real care.

Working closely with your peers, they will also be instrumental in supporting the People function to deliver the broader people strategy, developing capability of the People function.

Using substantial talent development experience and expertise, the role holder will work at both a strategic and operational level, and establish and maintain strong, effective and trusting relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders, including the Belron UK Executive team and Belron International People Team. In addition, the role holder will collaborate and share accountability with other leaders on key cross-functional projects for the successful development and implementation of the business strategy.

This role holder will be comfortable working at pace, often in a rapidly changing environment where the context is shifting and sometimes ambiguous, capable and confident in decision making and often managing multiple priorities at the same time. They will be confident in appropriately challenging current thinking in order to support the wider People agenda.

Key Accountabilities

What is the scale of this role?

Head of Talent will lead a team of 3 direct reports. The role will also have significant influence across the business as part of our Senior Team, working cross functionally to achieve our strategic plans.

Who are my key stakeholders?

How will I know if I’m doing a good job?

When we’re looking at how our business is doing, we look at 4 areas; people, customer, shareholders and what progress we have been making in each of these:

Living Our Values

Our Values are our DNA and underpin everything we do by shaping how we interact with our people, our partners, and our customers.