Global Talent Manager

Job Description:

Job Title: Talent Manager

Corporate Title:  SVP

Location:  London

Company Overview:

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection.  We do this by driving Responsible Growth and delivering for our clients, teammates, communities and shareholders every day.

Being a Great Place to Work is core to how we drive Responsible Growth.  This includes our commitment to being a diverse and inclusive workplace, attracting and developing exceptional talent, supporting our teammates’ physical, emotional, and financial wellness, recognizing and rewarding performance, and how we make an impact in the communities we serve.

At Bank of America, you can build a successful career with opportunities to learn, grow, and make an impact.  Join us!

Location Overview:

Our London office is based just a stone’s throw from the magnificent St. Paul’s Cathedral on bustling King Edward Street. Here you’ll find modern workspaces and a state-of-the-art auditorium space. In addition, we’re proud to host an onsite restaurant that shares our commitment to sustainability by providing delicious seasonal menus which have been created with the planet in mind. Make sure to take time for yourself and head up to our rooftop terrace and take in the spectacular views across London. Finally, your physical wellness is well-catered for with our onsite gym facilities and medical centre.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a Talent Manager to join the International Talent team to support several leaders across lines of business and legal entities with their personal, team, organisation development and business priorities. This includes identifying opportunities, strategies and solutions whilst partnering with Global Talent, Human Resource Generalists, The Academy, Opportunity and Inclusion and Talent Acquisition teams to support leaders and their teams with delivering people strategies. 

The successful candidate will be influential, results-oriented professional who can develop and manage relationships across the company and with a wide variety of partners based on trust, knowledge, and teamwork.

Responsibilities:

• Build and manage relationships with senior executive stakeholders and business leaders to provide strategic talent and development consultancy, ensuring deliverables are aligned to support business, people, and performance objectives.
• Leads, designs, and implements key leadership development processes and HR initiatives such as talent and succession planning, performance management, organizational design and effectiveness, manager development, executive onboarding, 360 feedback, employee engagement, and development program nominations in line with Enterprise approach.
• Execute talent management strategy and organizational design across local, regional, international and enterprise teams and partners while ensuring compliance with rules and regulations.
• Provides consultative support and coaching to key leaders focused on promoting and developing top talent.
• Maximizes business and enterprise objectives and outcomes by implementing strategic talent solutions leveraging quantitative and qualitative data.
• Consult with leaders on organisational change including assessing operating model and org design effectiveness, preparing org design proposals and communication plans.
• Serve in an advisory role for horizontal initiatives across the line of business, GHR and Talent organization.
• Support of regulatory requirements for key talent across the lines of business, in partnership with regulatory partners.

As a Talent Manager your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

• Significant and demonstratable experience in senior level roles across leadership development, organisational development or talent management.
• A demonstratable track record of leading end to end talent and capability initiatives with measurable outcomes. 
• Relationship management skills with ability to consult, advise, and influence senior leaders.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills. Ability to manage multiple priorities with multiple senior stakeholders in a heavily matrixed environment
• Tenacious, solutions focused, positive and resilient with the ability to overcome obstacles and challenges and remain agile to changing business needs and priorities.
• Highly motivated self-starter with strong analytical skills and a results oriented mindset and comfortable with operating in the grey, navigating ambiguity.
• Operational excellence mindset with high attention to detail. Ability to have a strategic view and be across all elements of a process interchangeably.
• Experience leading projects within scope, timeframe and budget while meeting/exceeding stakeholder expectations.

Benefits of working at Bank of America:

• Private healthcare for you and your family plus an annual health screen to help you manage your physical wellness with the option to purchase a screen for your partner
• Competitive pension plan, life assurance and group income protection cover if you become unable to work as a result of a disability or health reasons
• 20 days of back-up childcare including access to school holiday clubs and 20 days of back-up adult care per annum 
• The ability to change your core benefits as well as the option of selecting a variety of flexible benefits to suit your personal circumstances including access to a wellbeing account, travel insurance, critical illness etc.
• Access to an emotional wellbeing helpline, mental health first aiders and virtual GP services.
• Access to an Employee Assistance Program for confidential support and help for everyday matters
• Ability to donate to charities of your choice directly through payroll and the bank will match your contribution
• Opportunity to access our Arts & Culture corporate membership program and receive discounted entry to some of the UK’s most iconic cultural institutions and exhibitions.
• Opportunity to give back to your community, develop new skills and work with new groups of people by volunteering in your local community.

Bank of America:

Good conduct and sound judgment is crucial to our long term success. It’s important that all employees in the organisation understand the expected standards of conduct and how we manage conduct risk. Individual accountability and an ownership mind-set are the cornerstones of our Code of Conduct and are at the heart of managing risk well.

We are an equal opportunities employer and ensure that no applicant is subject to less favourable treatment on the grounds of sex, gender identity or gender reassignment, marital or civil partner status, race, religion or belief, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origins, age, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity, socio-economic background, responsibility for dependants or physical or mental disability. The Bank selects candidates for interview based on their skills, qualifications and experience.

We strive to ensure that our recruitment processes are accessible for all candidates and encourage any candidates to tell us about any adjustment requirements.