Head of Talent & Succession

The Role & Key Responsibilities

Job Title: Head of Talent & Succession

Location: Hybrid, home working with regular visits to our Peterborough Head office

Are you an experienced Talent & Succession professional looking to further your career in a global blue chip organisation? If so this newly created role could be the perfect next chapter in your career story.

We are looking for someone who will manage the overall internal talent and succession processes and activities for AB Agri ensuring management teams have the tools and resources required to manage succession internally. Bringing external knowledge and practice you'll ensure we're continuously innovating how we manage talent for the success of the business.

We want to elevate our Talent and Succession approach to become truly strategic and proactive. In this role you'll know who our internal talent is and will keep in touch with them in between our talent review processes championing them for new positions. You'll collaborate with other areas of the Talent & Engagement function such as talent development to ensure the right development programmes are in place and with D&I to ensure our internal pipelines are diverse and accessible to everyone. This role is not about designing or delivering training programmes but instead is about championing and driving actions that deliver job outcomes for our internal talent in addition to our talent review process. You'll be responsible for supporting business and HR leaders to develop effective structures that deliver succession opportunities; developing career paths and connecting gaps between succession needs and talent potential across the group. You will also be responsible for ensuring effective career conversations and personal development planning support individual growth, strategic workforce planning and organisation design – having the right people, in the right roles, at the right time.

What you'll bring:

• Demonstrable strength and experience in talent, succession management & coaching

• Proven manager, experienced in coaching and developing performance in own team

• Evidence of continuous learning and development of own skills in talent and succession management

• Experience of coaching managers supported by a relevant coaching qualification

• Experience of using data and insight in decision making and process improvement

• Understanding of organisational design processes

• Experience of strategic workforce planning execution

• Experience of developing career paths

About The Company

Rewarding your passion

When you join us, you'll do meaningful work and be rewarded fairly for it. From annual salary reviews and incentive bonus, ongoing career development and enhanced family, financial and wellbeing benefits – these are just some of the ways we reward you – from day one.

About us

We're AB Agri, part of Associated British Foods (ABF plc) and we're passionate about feeding the world responsibly and affordably by making quality animal feed, creating nutrition and technology–based products, and offering data services for the agri–food industry. What sets us apart is how we delight our customers – and that's because of great people like you. People with different life experiences who share common values. Together we're building a fair, innovative and inclusive culture.

As a Disability Confident employer, we're committed to ensuring our application and recruitment processes work for everyone so if you need any additional support (like alternative formats for your application, bringing a support dog to the offices, a sign language interpreter – or anything else) just let us know.

Application Notes

We hope you feel that AB Agri is somewhere you can thrive and so we'd love to hear from you. We get a lot of applications for our roles and sometimes need to close the process early so register your details and upload your CV via our careers website as soon as you can – it will only take a few minutes.

When you do, we'll ask you some equal opportunities questions just to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive – or show us areas we can improve. This information is anonymised, separate from your application and is never seen by the hiring panel. You can choose not to answer these questions and this won't affect your application.

Apply today or contact our recruitment team for more information.

Agencies and media sales

AB Agri group politely requests no contact from recruitment agencies or media sales. We don't accept speculative CVs from recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.