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Join GoCardless as they are looking for a Head of Talent Development
Overview
Salary
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Location
London, UK
Expires
Expires at anytime
About us
At GoCardless we believe bank payments are the best way to pay and get paid. We also believe that bank account data is a powerful tool to make better, faster decisions. We’re making it easy to use both- for businesses everywhere.
GoCardless is used for domestic and international payments by 75,000+ organisations and counting, processing more than $30 billion across 30 countries. We’re an award-winning London based fintech, with additional offices in Riga, Paris and Melbourne.
The role
Reporting to the Director, People Partnering and Talent Development, this is a critical role that will have a high impact on GoCardless’ ability to deliver on its ambitious strategy to become the world’s bank payment network.
Over the next few years we expect to accelerate the growth and learning of our employees by enabling an inclusive, high performance and quality feedback culture. You will build the Talent Development roadmap and be responsible for the design and roll out of all our performance frameworks and targeted growth programmes.
What excites you
- Creating and driving the strategy for the Talent Development function, in alignment with overall business strategy and annual objectives
- Leading the performance and career review process to ensure powerful conversations are held focusing on career development and performance enhancement
- Creating a productive feedback loop with the business to continually improve our ability to deliver impactful programmes to GeeCees.
- Embedding Diversity, Equity and Inclusion principles in all programmes and specifically building inclusive leadership capabilities
- Driving action using insights from the engagement survey and ensuring we are differentiating based on our diverse populations
- Developing strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business to feed into our understanding of business needs
- Own the setup and continuous improvement of talent development tools and systems related to the processes under your responsibility
- Continually think about how to improve the impact of our targeted programmes and the measurability of our talent development
- Partner internally to embed D&I into every aspect of our talent development strategy, in alignment with other parts of the business
- Act as a change leader, in partnership with the business, operationalising our Talent development vision and delivering on our roadmap
What excites us
- Demonstrated experience of building a culture aligned to the people vision through an integrated talent and development plan
- Experience in delivery of learning programmes that embed core business principles and support people through different career stages
- Knowledge of implementing talent management initiatives such as assessment of potential or company-wide succession planning
- Product and customer mindset to ensure we build simple, smart people products with the end user and point of need always in mind
- Strong facilitation skills, whether in a learning environment, leadership offsite or within a senior talent calibration session
- A skilled stakeholder manager and influencer with the ability to communicate clearly and simply at all levels of the organisation
- Data driven and insight led to be able to take information and turn it into meaningful actions
- Balancing the ability to think and do in order to go from concept to delivering at pace, prioritising in flight and managing multiple projects
We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.
(some of) The good stuff
- Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
- Work away scheme - you can apply to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
- Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
- Equity -all permanently employed GCs get equity to help you make a valuable contribution
- Parental leave -to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
- Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
- Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (‘GC Fridays’)
Life at GoCardless
We're an organisation defined by our values; We start with whybefore we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.
Diversity & Inclusion
We’re building the bank payment network of the future and our ambition is to move money anywhere, for anything, for anyone. If we’re going to achieve this goal, we need to build a team of ‘GeeCee’s’ that is as wonderfully diverse as the world we live in - with a multitude of perspectives, experiences & backgrounds.
We’ve got a long way to go, but here’s how we’re doing as of June 2022;
Female Employees - 46%
Ethnic background - 32%
Identify as LGBTQIA - 10%
Neurodivergent- 9%
We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.
If you want to learn more, you can read about our Employee Resource Groups and objectives here as well as our latest D&I Report
Sustainability
We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. In 2021 we became co-founders of the Tech Zero coalition, a group of businesses committed to taking climate action as part of the UNFCCC Race to Zero. We aim to reduce our impact and to create positive change on the natural world. Check out our sustainability action plan here.
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