Talent & Performance Lead - Houghton Regis

Job Title: Talent & Performance Lead

Salary: £34,000 - £39,000 + up to 10% bonus + Bens

Contract Type: Permanent

Location: Dunstable, LU5 5XE, hybrid working, 3 days a week in the office, 2 days from home

We are recruiting a Talent & Development Lead who will report into our Head of Talent. The Talent & Performance Lead is responsible for leading the annual talent and performance cycle in Support Centre (Head Office) and Operations across the UK and Germany. The purpose of the role is to build high performing teams by delivering simple and effective processes that develop meaningful insights and drive tangible actions.

Your remit would span our entire business from salaried team in our hotels and restaurants right through to senior executives, leveraging our new Dayforce HR platform, performance framework and talent cycle to give our teams the opportunity to grow, develop and be their best. No barriers to entry, no limits to ambition.

The key skills which we'd be looking for will be strong project management skills as the team work to an annual plan with key markers throughout the year. We will also need strong data analysis skills which would include intermediate excel skills. Stakeholder engagement will also be very important as you'll be working very closely with our HR Business Partners, Learning & Development team, Insights and Resourcing teams.

We're Whitbread the UK's largest hospitality business with over 1,200 hotels and restaurants across the UK but we're more than that. We're the 38,000 people who make everyday experiences special that delight over 5 million guests every month.

We are proud to have been recognised as a Top Employer for 14 consecutive years, voted a top apprenticeship employer by Department of Education and Rate my Apprenticeship, this year we placed in the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index for our commitment to LGBTQIA+ inclusion at Whitbread and have been awarded as a Top 25 Exemplary Employer in the Investing in Ethnicity Parliamentary Matrix as the only hospitality company leading the way in terms of Inclusion.