Rentokil Initial

Group Talent Management – Succession Manager

Rentokil Initial

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Crawley • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Succession Mapping: Audit our current critical roles and build a 12-month plan to find or work in conjunction with the Head of Talent Development to build capable talent for them.
  • Agile Executive Sourcing: Execute targeted external searches for senior leadership roles. You’ll be expected to headhunt directly where possible to reduce our reliance on expensive search firms.
  • Building the Toolkit: Help us select and embed the right low-cost, high-impact AI sourcing and assessment tools to make our talent process more efficient.
  • Stakeholder Partnering: Act as a credible advisor to senior leaders, providing "outside-in" market intelligence on what our competitors are doing.
  • Assessment developing benchmarks and tools to measure capability and potential that can be effectively applied both internally and externally.
  • Internal Development Tracking: Work with Regional HR leads and Head of Talent Development to ensure that "Ready in 2 years" internal candidates actually have the development support they need to become "Ready Now." in place and we can measure our progress as a team and organisation, at reducing risk, managing our talent and planning for our future success.
  • Candidate Experience and search management: Manage end-to-end seamless active search processes to attract, assess, select and onboard internal and external talent.Embed exceptional internal and external candidate experiences and learnings and manage 3rd party relationships with search and executive firms where required.

Requirements

  • Proven Experience: You’ve likely worked in an in-house Talent Management function or a high-end Executive Search firm with pipeline management experience.
  • The "Hunter" Skillset: You are excellent at identifying and engaging passive talent directly.
  • Relationship Builder. You are able to navigate matrix organisations and influence at all levels.
  • Assessment Interest: Experience (or a strong desire to develop) in leadership assessment tools (e.g., Hogan, PAPI).
  • Grit: You are happy to "muck in." We are building the plane while flying it, so you need to be comfortable with ambiguity and limited resources.
  • Commercial Mindset: You understand that every internal promotion we land and every direct hire we make saves the business significant cost.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and bonus scheme
  • Hybrid working
  • Rentokil Initial Reward Scheme
  • 25 days holiday, plus 8 bank holidays
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Death in service benefit
  • Healthcare
  • Free parking
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Hard Skills & Tools
succession mappingexecutive sourcingtalent assessmentpipeline managementleadership assessment tools
Soft Skills
relationship buildinginfluencingadaptabilitygritstakeholder partnering