Talent Management & Development Specialist

Quilter

Talent Management & Development Specialist at Quilter, focusing on developing skills and capabilities for a customer centric organisation. Collaborating across teams to address workforce needs and drive impactful development initiatives.

Posted 7/28/2026contractSouthampton • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in talent management and development strategies, with a strong focus on data-driven insights and stakeholder engagement to enhance workforce capability and performance. Proficient in managing apprenticeship programs and leveraging insights for continuous improvement in talent development initiatives.

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Talent ManagementData-Driven MindsetStakeholder ManagementApprenticeship Levy UtilisationCapability Development Initiatives

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Hard Skills

Workforce Capability AnalysisSkills AssessmentCapability Framework DevelopmentTalent Pipeline ManagementSuccession PlanningLearning Journey DesignImpact MeasurementGovernance and ComplianceData AnalysisReporting

Soft Skills

Relationship BuildingCommercial AwarenessResults-Focused Approach

Industry Keywords

Talent DevelopmentLearning InitiativesFuture SkillsAI and Digital UpskillingTraining Providers

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Support the design and delivery of Quilter’s talent management and development strategy across our organisation:
Identify, analyse and prioritise organisational and functional capability gaps aligned to business strategy and future workforce requirements.
Maintain a clear view of priority capability needs and development activity across the organisation.
Gather and analyse workforce, learning and talent data to provide evidence-based capability insights.
Support the development of capability frameworks, skills assessments and workforce capability reporting.
Provide recommendations to HR and business stakeholders on emerging capability risks and opportunities.
Lead the coordination of Quilter's annual talent and succession review process, ensuring consistency, quality and timely completion across the organisation.
Maintain oversight of talent and succession information and reporting, ensuring accurate data supports workforce planning and decision-making.
Identify succession risks, critical role dependencies and future leadership capability requirements.
Produce talent and succession insights on bench strength, succession readiness, talent pipelines and organisational risk.
Use talent and succession insights to inform capability-building and development priorities.
Support continuous improvement of talent and succession processes, tools and reporting.
Translate workforce capability priorities into practical development pathways, learning journeys and upskilling opportunities.
Support the design and delivery of targeted capability development initiatives aligned to identified skills gaps.
Partner with Learning and HR colleagues to ensure solutions address organisational capability needs.
Monitor participation, completion and impact measures to assess the effectiveness of development interventions.
Ensure development activity remains aligned to evolving business priorities.
Lead day-to-day management, governance and optimisation of Quilter's Skills & Growth Levy.
Identify opportunities to use levy funding to address priority organisational capability gaps.
Manage relationships with training providers and external partners.
Monitor levy utilisation, programme effectiveness and return on investment.
Ensure compliance, governance and reporting requirements are met.
Provide regular reporting on levy utilisation, outcomes and future opportunities.
Build effective relationships across HR, Learning, and business teams.
Act as a key link between workforce capability insight, talent management, development solutions and programme delivery.
Provide evidence-based recommendations to support workforce and talent decisions.
Develop and maintain reporting across workforce capability, skills gaps, talent, succession and development activity.

Requirements

What you’ll need

A passion for developing talent , with experience delivering learning, skills and development initiatives that help people and businesses thrive.
Knowledge of apprenticeships and apprenticeship levy utilisation , including working with training providers to deliver impactful programmes.
A data-driven mindset , using insights and metrics to measure success, track progress and identify opportunities.
An interest in future skills , with experience or exposure to AI and digital upskilling programmes being a plus.
Strong stakeholder management skills , enabling you to build trusted relationships across HR and the wider business.
Commercial awareness and a results-focused approach , turning insight into meaningful action that drives capability and performance.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.
Benefit Allowance: A cash benefit allowance is payable in lieu of some of our core benefits. In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.