In a nutshell

This role ensures the smooth running of our Leadership Development proposition and products. Provides SME support to the team to enable design, development and deployment of a wide range of executive leadership development interventions across Sainsbury’s.

 

What I am accountable for 

Support the Head of Exec Development and Exec Leadership Specialists in working with range of stakeholders across the organisation to understand requirements aligned to strategic priorities and validate content of proposed offers and products. Support the broader Leadership Development and Talent & Performance teams in setting up and managing our talent pools so that we have full visibility of development plans across DD/SM and pivotal roles. Research and carry out benchmarking activities of external market leadership development propositions contributing insight to support impactful design and development decisions. Co-ordinate coaching activities in support of Head of Exec Leadership Development; including managing a tracker that details who is receiving coaching, who our Master Coaches are coaching, as well as the total expenditure.   Be the point of contact and main co-ordinator for any external ESG talent offers e.g. NED, Governors for Schools, including managing a tracker that details who is receiving the offers etc. Be the point of contact and main co-ordinator for DEI initiatives as they relate to our leadership and talent offers e.g. WiHTL/DIR. Provide support for bespoke Exec HiPO Talent interventions / programmes. Act as a first point of contact for all Exec Leadership Development queries.  Work with relevant team members across TC&D to respond promptly providing the appropriate advice to the end user. Responsible for supporting the Head of Exec Leadership Development and Head of Talent and Performance with any people data and reporting requirements. Administer evaluation methods across programmes providing periodic updates to stakeholders on evaluation metrics and attendance. Administer of learning assessment and third-party tools in support of programmes delivery. Work flexibly across a portfolio of projects, managing multiple timelines and switching priorities as needed to respond to evolving business needs. Administration, logistics and general facilitator support for any Exec Leadership programmes as required. Manage Our Sainsbury’s content pages across Talent, Performance and Development teams.

 

What I need to know 

Essential

Ownership: Drive and ownership to deliver against plan resolving issues and making sound decisions. Agility: Ability to work well under pressure; managing within tight deadlines, ambiguity and changing priorities.  Can think long-term and act proactively to deliver long-term, sustainable outcomes. Project/Programme Management: Handles a project or portfolio of projects as they progress through the typical stages of the project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution and closure. Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to confidently present. Stakeholder Management: Ability to work and influence a range of stakeholders across the organisation to ensure seamless execution of products and programs. Relationship Building: Connects with others and forming positive relationships across the People function and with other key internal / external stakeholders. Continuous Improvement: Continuously strives to improve products, services, or processes. Role-model continuous professional development and demonstrate ability to learn from and share feedback. Risk Management: Identifies, evaluates and manages risks by developing and implementing strategies, frameworks, policies, procedures and practices. Commercial acumen: can clearly articulate the current business performance and leverage the people levers to enhance performance or productivity  Strong analytical skills to assimilate data and new information quickly and effectively, can collect and interpret data to uncover patterns and trends. Confident, experienced user of Microsoft Office

Desirable

Project management qualification (Prince2, Agile etc) Background in leadership development, talent management or programme management

What I need to show

All people colleagues should be consistently driving all four Leadership Performance Expectations, all the time. The Leadership Performance Expectations are: 

Obsessed with the customer 

You must: 

Use data and insight to understand customer needs and solve customer problems  Use our Purpose to support decision making everyday  Role model living our customer commitments and guide teams to do the same 

Obsessed with performance 

You must: 

Know and be accountable for your part to play, delivering it brilliantly  Align team goals and ruthlessly prioritise resources to deliver our Customer Commitments  Assign clear accountabilities, hold people accountable (in your team and out) and act on performance both good and bad 

Lead beyond boundaries 

You must: 

Actively share and seek to understand the big picture, both internal and external  Story tell our Next Level Sainsbury’s strategy to drive end-to-end thinking  Build productive partnership inside and outside our organisation 

Lead fearless teams 

You must: 

Create the environment for diverse perspective and challenge, where we are always looking to raise the bar  Grow everyone around you (up, down and across) through adult-to-adult feedback and coaching  Know yourself (strengths, weaknesses and impact on others) and continuously develop