Closing date: 30.04.2025
Location: Birmingham/Manchester
Are you enthusiastic about people development, inspiring teams and making a real impact? Are you looking for an exciting new opportunity to work within an ever-growing team that will support you to excel as an individual and develop your career.
The role:
Due to the continued growth of the firm, we are looking for an in-house Talent Development Manager to join us in one of our offices in Birmingham or Manchester. Working closely with the Senior Leadership Team to assist with one-to-one coaching, personal development, resourcing/workload management, HR tasks, coordination, and review of learning activities.
We are looking for someone who has experience within professional services with the following background and experience:
- Minimum of three years experience (Manager) in a professional services development role with a level of exposure to recruitment and HR in practice.
- Experience in dealing directly with individual coaching; providing robust constructive feedback to learners, in verbal and written forms, to support their development and provide stretch and challenge.
- CIPD qualification in People Management.
- Proven experience in a Learning and Development role.
- Effective communication and people skills to collaborate with individuals and teams across our organisation with the ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders.
- Excellent organisational skills to prioritise and manage multiple improvement initiatives.
- Coaching or mentoring qualifications would be advantageous.
- Ability to build relationships, engage, and influence others.
- Proficiency in MS Teams, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and knowledge of SharePoint and learning platforms, familiar with professional services training requirements.
- Understanding of CPD requirements and how to ensure professional staff comply.
- A good working knowledge of the recruitment process and onboarding.
Key Responsibilities:
Coaching and Training support: Undertake individual coaching sessions with staff at all levels in the firm on a regular basis including obtaining feedback and manage goal setting and personal development. Prepare staff for promotion. Manage underperformers to enable them to meet expectations.
Learning Program. Work closely with the senior leadership team to identify learning needs, design effective/implement training sessions, drive course uptake, follow up with teams, and embed new practices. Work with new starters to deliver targeted development programs. Coordination of company mandatory training. Conduct people skills training.
HR: Manage HR function, including conducting performance improvement plans, grievance and disciplinary meetings in reality such events are minimal.
Recruitment: Manage, coordinate, and develop the recruitment program, reviewing candidate CVs, liaising with recruiters and candidates, and appointing relevant interviewers
Analyse and Report: Collect and evaluate feedback to continuously assess the effectiveness of our training and solutions, to evaluate and ensure continuous improvement adding to the success of our programs, resources & solutions. Collaborate with colleagues in the wider team to ensure the best solution is identified and developed.
Travel to each of our offices across the UK to conduct in-person meetings with the team.
Resource planning: Identify needs and coordinate workload across service lines.
This role is full-time, and office based.
Only those applicants who have a legal right to work in the UK and have an appropriate amount of practical relevant UK professional services experience, as outlined above, will be considered for this role.
Salary and benefits:
We regularly benchmark our salaries to ensure we are competitive and attracting the best talent. You will also have the opportunity to join our All-Employee Share Reward Scheme which entitles every employee to a share of the firm’s profits above a fixed threshold, plus a generous benefits package (including voluntary benefits). We think you will be pleasantly surprised (financially speaking)!
Why Claritas?
- Respect for one another’s work/life balance
- A chance to join one of the UK’s fastest-growing independent, full-service tax practices.
- High-quality work and people
- Strength in depth of experience across all areas of tax
- Being part of an exciting growth journey and national expansion
