Talent & Development Senior Manager

In this Talent and Development Senior Manager role, you will lead the strategy, standards, frameworks, and processes for succession management and successor development across the organisation. You will be responsible for overseeing the full lifecycle of succession planning—from initial design and implementation to ongoing readiness and capability development of identified successors. Your focus will include continuous improvement, digitisation of processes, and ensuring alignment with broader talent strategies.

You will work closely with senior stakeholders, including ExCo and HRD-level leaders, to embed succession planning into business priorities and measure its impact effectively.

You will act as a trusted partner to leadership teams, building relationships and influencing talent outcomes at the highest levels. Your expertise in succession planning and talent development will be critical in driving long‑term leadership readiness. You will also contribute to colleague development projects, collaborate with teams focused on digital transformation, and maintain external partnerships to bring in best practices. communication skills—both written and verbal—are essential, as you will be expected to present structured briefs and insights to senior audiences.

This is a high‑impact role requiring strategic thinking, stakeholder influence, and a deep understanding of talent dynamics.

To be successful as a Talent and Development Senior Manager, you should have experience with:

• Experience in defining and leading succession planning strategies, frameworks, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Ability to engage and influence senior stakeholders to embed succession planning into leadership agendas.
• Demonstrated capability in measuring the effectiveness of succession plans and ensuring successor readiness.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to present structured insights and recommendations.

You may be assessed on the key critical skills relevant for success in role, such as risk and controls, change and transformation, business acumen strategic thinking and digital and technology, as well as job‑specific technical skills

Your role can be located from our London or Glasgow office.

To design and implement programmes and initiatives that support the growth and development of the bank’s employees and leaders.

• Development and implementation of training and development programmes and initiatives, including creation and execution of training sessions, workshops, and other learning opportunities.
• Collaboration with HR and hiring managers to analyse the current and future development needs of the organisation.
• Design and delivery of classroom and digital based training content, programmes and associated User Experience.
• Management of onboarding programmes including training, onboarding materials, introduction meetings and providing support throughout the onboarding process.
• Analysis of data and metrics to measure success of talent development programmes and initiatives.
• Development and implementation of coaching and mentoring programmes, train the trainer programmes for facilitators and relevant educational materials.
• Develop and implement talent pipelining processes, identifying, managing, progressing and promoting talent capability across the bank with succession management and career progression’.

• To contribute or set strategy, drive requirements and make recommendations for change. Plan resources, budgets, and policies; manage and maintain policies/ processes; deliver continuous improvements and elevate breaches of policies/procedures.
• If managing a team, they define jobs and responsibilities, planning for the department’s future needs and operations, counselling employees on performance and contributing to employee pay decisions/changes. They may also lead a number of specialists to influence the operations of a department, in alignment with strategic as well as tactical priorities, while balancing short and long term goals and ensuring that budgets and schedules meet corporate requirements.
• If the position has leadership…