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This is a 12 month Fixed term contract

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

This is a 12 month Fixed term contract

We’re Kingfisher, A team made up of over 74,000 passionate people who bring Kingfisher - and all our other brands: B&Q, Screwfix, Brico Depot, Castorama and Koctas - to life. That’s right, we’re big, but we have ambitions to become even bigger and even better. We want to become the leading home improvement company and grow the largest community of home improvers in the world. And that’s where you come in.

At Kingfisher our customers come from all walks of life, and so do we. We want to ensure that all colleagues, future colleagues, and applicants to Kingfisher are treated equally regardless of age, gender, marital or civil partnership status, colour, ethnic or national origin, culture, religious belief, philosophical belief, political opinion, disability, gender identity, gender expression or sexual orientation.

We are open to flexible and agile working, both of hours and location. Therefore, we offer colleagues a blend of working from home and our offices, located in London, Southampton & Yeovil. Talk to us about how we can best support you!

A brand new role which will see you play a lead role in operationalising Kingfisher’s talent management strategy with the aim of building strong, deep and diverse talent pipelines into senior leadership roles.

What's the job?

• In partnership with the Head of Talent, lead the delivery of Kingfisher’s internal talent management strategy, focused on building capabilities for strong, deep, and diverse leadership pipelines for the Top 120 executive roles across Banners, Functions, and geographies – the Kingfisher Leadership Team.
• Build strong relationships across the banner HR and talent and learning teams to help establish a community of best practice
• Create best practise talent and capability tools and frameworks and tools that help us to consistently identify and develop talent across the Kingfisher group
• Ensure diversity in succession plans, gender diversity and beyond, and is accountable for measuring and reporting on progress.
• Identify gaps in long term succession pipelines, and build plans to mitigate these
• Regular reporting and presentation of progress to key stakeholders including the Group Executive. Oversees the setting, tracking and reporting of key talent, diversity and talent metrics.
• Bring focus on continual improvement of talent and capability development approaches, build rigour and consistency where appropriate and simplify and build ‘fit for purpose’ solutions. These should support active, forward looking career progression and development conversations between line managers and colleagues.
  
  

• Experience of working cross borders, in an international context and in a matrix organisation. Kingfisher has a decentralised operating model so the role holder needs to be very comfortable at influencing outcomes without direct control and should be able to overcome resistance and deal with ambiguity
• Deep knowledge of internal talent management, including potential assessment, succession planning, talent reviews, and capability development practices and frameworks.
• Experience in building strong, deep and diverse leadership talent pipelines
• Strong presentation skills and the ability to create insight and conclusions from data
• Experience managing multiple stakeholders at a senior level
• Strong attention to detail and organisation skills with the ability to juggle multiple projects at any one time
• Curious and able to bring new ways of thinking
• Build successful partner relationships, engaging confidently with leaders and colleagues across the business and the People Function
• Demonstrate curiosity about our business; build connection to our retail Banners and Functions. Retail experience is advantageous
• Comfortable taking the initiative and navigating ambiguity
• Experience of successfully influencing and working with senior leaders, building relationships that promote trust and confidence
  
  

• I listen to my customers
• Curious and able to bring new ways of thinking
• I use available data to help make decisions
  
  

• I do the right thing
• I am respectful
  
  

• I build and share new ideas
• I try new things and share my learnings
  
  

• I have courage to be creative
• Done is better than perfect, I aim for 80/20
  
  

• I embrace allyship
• I have self-awareness and a desire to learn
  
  

• I own my actions
• I understand the Kingfisher plan and how it relates to my role
  
  

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Not Applicable

Employment type

• Employment type

  Contract

Job function

• Job function

  Human Resources

• Industries

  Retail and Human Resources Services

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