Talent Manager - Performance - 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

What’s in it for you

We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!

• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

As a Talent Manager for Performance, you will continually scan the external market to ensure the way we approach performance management is best in class and right for Tesco. 

You'll design the Group-wide blueprints, tools and resources for how we manage performance at Tesco and support talent and partnering teams to deliver this for colleagues.

You will be responsible for

• I bring Tesco’s performance approach to life, ensuring it is clear, consistent and works well for colleagues and leaders at every level.
• I lead the end to end Performance Cycle, owning how it is designed, timed and delivered so performance activities are meaningful and drive the right behaviours.
• I own the Performance Cycle blueprint, setting out what good looks like for each stage of the cycle and providing simple tools and guidance to support high quality performance conversations.
• I bring future thinking and external insight on how performance management can best support a strong, inclusive high performance culture, continuously improving how performance is experienced at Tesco.
• I am the business lead for the Performance Management System, working with Technology to improve how the system supports performance today and how it needs to evolve in the future.
• I enable talent and partnering teams to deliver performance activity well, setting clear expectations and ensuring a consistent, high quality experience across markets and functions.
• I work closely with market talent teams to understand what matters most to their businesses, embedding the performance approach locally and improving it through ongoing feedback.
• I work closely with Capability, DE&I and Workforce Planning to ensure our performance approach is connected, practical and aligned to wider talent priorities.

You will need

• People/HR operational experience
• Performance management experience 
• Stakeholder management and influencing experience
• Experience leading across cross functional and cross market initiatives 
• Experience driving simplification and scalable process improvements

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.