EY Talent Development Manager - Strategy Transactions 

United Kingdom, England, London 

905559255

Based Birmingham or London

This Manager position is accountable for the oversight and management of a portfolio of Talent Development projects across a technical and non-technical curriculum for people in the SaT, from student hire through to partner development.

Learning Strategy

• Own and drive the identification of learning and development needs in line with business priorities, appropriately engaging with business stakeholders.
• In collaboration with SaT business and Talent Development leaders, define and design the Talent Development strategy for SaT, in alignment with EY learning strategy.

Design and Develop Learning

• Design, develop and evaluate learning and development programmes and strategic initiatives, delivering high quality learning deliverables.
• Adopt consulting skills to develop deep understanding of business issues, building close working relationships with colleagues and collaborating with external experts as required.
• Engage SMEs for learning design and build of local content as required, including managing pilots.

Deploy Learning

• Create learning deployment plans and budgets and oversee their execution.
• Provide clear project updates and communicate at all stages of the project lifecycle.
• Work with business stakeholders and learning and development champions to drive the uptake and completion of courses to targets.

Team management

• Lead and manage team members and invest in their development.
• Act as a counsellor, coach and mentor, participate in recruitment, drive team development, and manage performance.

Financial Management

• Support and manage monthly/annual team finance activities, tracking for budgeting and spend as needed.
• Manage team resources, including budget to achieve business targets, adopting a commercial mindset and approach.
• Manage commercial supplier relationships.

Brand

• Build brand and credibility for the SaT Talent Development team, aligning offerings with EY’s leadership model and DE&I priorities.
• Deliver effective communication to generate high levels of learner and stakeholder engagement across SaT.

Facilitation of learning programmes

• Facilitation of key courses and workshops as needed.

Skills and attributes for success

• Skills and experience in Talent Development including design, learning deployment and facilitation.
• Strong commercial acumen and business awareness.
• Agility and adaptability to move with emerging business needs and attention to high quality services and products that meet business requirements.
• Stakeholder management and business consulting with a strong ability to engage and influence others.
• Strong client focus with the ability to network, manage relationships and work virtually and across borders and cultures
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders across the organisation at all levels
• Strong presentation skills (both verbal and written presentations)
• Team Management, coaching and interpersonal skills with an ability to manage difficult conversations
• Encourage an environment of open communication, inclusion, participation and self-development
• Data management and analysis, ability to generate and present evidence-based insights
• Strong IT skills - MS Teams, Word, Excel, Outlook and Sharepoint.
• Evidence of identifying and implementing process improvements and creation of best practice
• Working in international and diverse environments.

Essential requirements

• An experienced Manager with at least two years’ experience in a Manager role with demonstrable project and people management skills.
• Experience of working in HR/Talent/Talent Development in professional services or a large, complex matrix corporate environment.
• Strong team working and team management skills, with an enthusiastic, can-do, flexible approach, and ability to collaborate to work as ‘one team.’
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.