Talent Development Specialist

Job title – Talent Development Specialist

Grade - Manager

Location – London

About Federated Hermes;

Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $845.7 billion in assets under management, as of August 1st, 2025. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset, and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide.

Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks, and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has more than 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com

Main Function of the role:

Support the FHL Talent Development Partner in the delivery of Talent Development programmes. This includes designing and implementing learning interventions to enhance employee skills and performance through various instructional methods, coordinating leadership development programs, and supporting the smooth running of talent processes.

Additionally, this role is responsible for comprehensive program administration, including the management of study support requests, talent development mailbox, intranet site management and early careers ( apprenticeships and intern programmes) administration.

Key task and responsibilities:

1. Support FHL Talent Development Partner in the delivery of Firm-wide Talent Development Strategy:

Design and Implement Training Programs:

• Develop and execute training programs to enhance employee skills and performance.
• Utilize various instructional methods, including e-learning, facilitated workshops, and on-the-job training.
• Develop success metrics and feedback mechanisms to support continuous improvement of programmes

Leadership Development

• Manage leadership development programs to enable employees to grow their leadership skillset whether as first-time leaders or experienced leaders
• Facilitate workshops and seminars focused on leadership skills.

Talent Programs and processes

• Support and maintenance of talent programmes and processes, for example, performance management and global mentoring programme; includes employee support and development/delivery of firmwide training and communication activities

Consultative Partnering

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders to understand their talent development requirements and recommend relevant resources or develop tailored solutions, where appropriate

Programme Administration

• Talent Development mailbox management of FHL requests.
• Invoice processing
• Management of study support requests
• Management of coaching arrangement administration
• Management of UK Talent Development Intranet and Sharepoint site.
• Management of early careers initiatives (apprenticeships and intern programme)
• Management of RFP requests
• Event management for face to face and virtual sessions
• Monitor team trackers (e.g. coaching arrangements, mentor pairings)
• Produce reports: (e.g. training completion, compliance reports, feedback reports and ad hoc reports)

Minimum knowledge & experience required:

• Minimum 5-7years’ experience in learning and development, talent management or related role (A qualification in a related field is desirable)
• Proven experience managing learning management systems
• Demonstrated experience in designing and facilitating learning interventions (e.g. workshops, webinars, interactive meetings, curated content solutions)
• Experience with learning administration and event coordination
• Experience of process redesign and implementation of updated processes (Desirable to have direct experience of redesigning talent development processes)
• Ability to navigate complexity and ambiguity effectively

Candidate Profile:

The role will suit someone with a keen interest in Talent Management and Development approaches. This role comprises multiple challenges and demands and the role holder will need to deal efficiently with detail oriented administrative tasks, while also being able to contribute to design and development of new content and processes, resulting from the FHL/FHI integration.

The ability to provide excellent employee support, alongside proactive management, tracking, monitoring and controlling of Talent Development processes and projects, is essential.

• You will have a team approach and strong passion for working with people. You will be highly organised and will work on your own initiative to ensure projects are delivered.

• You will be highly competent and interested in the use of technology including Word, PowerPoint, Excel, MS Teams, MS Forms SharePoint and Learning Management Systems. Advanced knowledge of Office365 applications is desirable.

• You will have experience in the delivery and facilitation of learning & development solutions, and you will have the desire to grow your skillset in this regard.

You will be highly competent in drafting project plans, reports and training materials and you will be effective in the proactive management of these tools to ensure they are impactful and appropriately maintained.

Diversity, Inclusion and Flexible Working

We believe in genuine opportunity, fairness, and respect for all applicants and aim to ensure that no current or prospective employee is subject to discrimination or treated less favourably on the basis of their disability, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or disability.

We understand that applicants may have different needs and expectations related to their working arrangements and are committed to a discussion on flexible working. Please raise these with your Recruitment contact to discuss what type of arrangements can work for you and the role for which you are applying.

We welcome applications from all eligible candidates, and we particularly encourage applications from qualified candidates who identify as women and/or are from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services sector.

We are a Disability Confident Employer and participate in the “Offer of Interview” scheme, intended to actively encourage applications from people with a disability or long-term condition and offer an interview to those who meet the minimum criteria set out within this job description. You will need to let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme by contacting Jessica Sheehan at [email protected] or +44 207 702 0888. You do not need to share details of your disability or long-term condition.

If you would benefit from alternative methods of applying or for workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please also let us know by contacting Jessica Sheehan at [email protected] or +44 207 702 0888 to discuss the support you need.