Executive: Talent and Performance Management at Immersion Group

Job Function:

Define and execute all strategies, frameworks, policies and procedures relating to talent and performance management. Partner and collaborate across business in the definition of talent management practices and initiatives to enable business priorities, succession and retention of talent. Drive a single Imperial talent agenda that promotes a group wide talent pipeline, retention and progression of the top talent across the business.

Key performance areas

Talent management:

• Design and deploy talent management strategies, policies, practices and procedures in line with business priorities and growth
• Design practices to identify, manage, retain, succession and develop top talent
• Design and ensure talent management implementation across all operating companies
• Align the HR calendar and routines to business calendars, budget cycles and priorities
• Lead the group wide STR, calibration and talent pipeline development and reporting, annually
• Represent talent in all Imperial business and group conversations and reporting
• In partnership with HR Business Partners, facilitate talent matches for key succession decisions across business
• Partner with L&D, Comp and Benefit and other specialist teams where talent retention or scarce skills are identified
• Facilitate senior leadership talent movement through internal talent forums to drive talent development and mobility across the group
• Establish framework and practices for the use and application of psychometric batteries and reporting (refresh annually or as required) and is governed
• Source and manage all psychometric suppliers and partners, rate cards and alignment to the Imperial Way
• Support the P&CBP’s in using psychometrics in people and team development, talent acquisition to uphold our EVP and industry ethics

Performance management:

• Own and lead the My Imperial People Way: “Focus Me” (performance management practices and framework)
• Ensure all practices, templates and guides are updated and socialised in line with the HR calendar
• Design and deploy a goal setting, cascading, monitoring and review practice in collaboration with the HR Business Partners and My People Central (Success Factors)
• Ensure the integration and alignment across the talent and performance management practices to drive a meaningful employee experience

Qualifications required:

• Bachelor Degree, preferably in Industrial Psychology
• Post graduate degree or registered Psychometrist

Skills and experience required:

• Up to 8 years of HR generalist experience or leading the talent and performance practice of a large scale organisation
• A minimum of 5 years operational leadership / specialist experience

Technical Competencies:

• Advanced knowledge of the HR value chain
• Ability to start-up new practices and processes in a federated HR model
• Strong knowledge and experience in talent and performance management in practice
• Strong analytical abilities
• Experience in interpreting and providing feedback on psychometric reports
• Able to put complex data into simple, graphic format