Flexible (4 days a week, Monday to Thursday)

Regular travel in the Yorkshire region and occasional national travel

Why Greencore?

We are a leading manufacturer of convenience food in the UK and our purpose is to make every day taste better. Join us and be part of our great team.

In FY23 we manufactured 779m sandwiches and other food to go products, 132m chilled prepared meals, and 245m bottles of cooking sauces, pickles and condiments. We carry out more than 10,400 direct to store deliveries each day. We have 21 world-class manufacturing units across 16 locations in the UK, with industry-leading technology and supply chain capabilities. We generated revenues of £1.9bn in FY23 and employ approximately 13,600 people.

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What you'll be doing

We are looking for our next Talent Manager to join our award-winning Talent, Development & Inclusion team. You’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of our workforce. You will lead our efforts in talent and career management, ensuring that we attract, develop, and retain top talent. Your expertise will inform our annual talent review processes. You will oversee our established performance and career cycle, our investment in development centres and our early careers, apprenticeships and skills offer. You’ll directly manage our annual talent action plans, our education programmes for high potential leaders and our inhouse coaching and mentoring programme. This is an exciting opportunity to lead an experienced and skilled team.

Key accountabilities include

• Managing Talent Review: Overseeing, supporting and facilitating our annual talent review process, ensuring we identify emerging talent and build succession strength
• Talent Management: Develop and execute strategies to attract, retain, and develop top talent across our organisation
• Performance & Career Management: Facilitate our performance management approach to enable colleague engagement, growth and productivity
• Coaching and Mentoring: Develop our established Coaching and Mentoring programme, enabling our coaches to add value to the organisation and colleagues
• Team Leadership: Inspire and manage a high-performing team, fostering a caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative work environment
• Early Careers: Enable our early careers programmes to attract, retain, and accelerate growth of new and diverse talent
• Apprenticeships: Oversee our investment in skills and education to underpin our organisational talent priorities

What we're looking for

• We are looking for an experienced Talent Lead, with proven experience managing a group wide annual talent review cycle, succession planning and performance and career process across a large complex organisation.
• You’ll be of graduate calibre and CIPD qualified (MCIPD/FCIPD), experienced and confident working with senior leaders, and skilled at building credibility in an FMCG or private label business.
• You’ll have demonstrable consulting skills, able to uncover the root causes, use data and insight to make decisions and fully able identify needs before proposing the options/solutions.
• You’ll have a strong track record of leading and managing successful and skilled teams, with excellent communication, coaching, mentoring and interpersonal skills. You’ll be able to work flexibly and manage multiple priorities effectively.
• In return, you’ll be joining an award winning and high performing team, that’s invested in one another. You’ll enjoy a flexible work schedule, working Monday to Thursday, 4 days per week. You’ll be part of an innovate team, committed to excellence. We offer professional growth, exposure and meaningful work that makes a difference. We have a supportive culture, and an inclusive environment where your contributions are valued, and your voice heard. We’ve an established
• development, performance and career offer for colleagues, known as Grow with Greencore and we are truly invested in enabling our colleagues to succeed. If this sounds like the team, and business for you, then reach out to one of our team to find out more.

We're not all the same at Greencore and our differences help us to make every day taste better for all our stakeholders. We truly put our people at the core and are proud of our diversity.

What you'll get in return

• Competitive salary and job-related benefits
• Car allowance
• Performance related bonus
• Performance share plan
• Private medical insurance
• 25 days Holiday p.a.
• Pension up to 8% matched
• Life insurance up to 4x salary
• Company share-save scheme
• Greencore Qualifications
• Exclusive Greencore employee discount platform
• Access to a full Wellbeing Centre platform

Throughout your time at Greencore, you will be supported with on-the-job training and development opportunities to further your career.