Talent Management Partner

We're ASOS, the online retailer for fashion lovers all around the world.

We exist to give our customers the confidence to be whoever they want to be, and that goes for our people too. At ASOS, you're free to be your true self without judgement, and channel your creativity into a platform used by millions.

Everyone needs some help showing up as their best self. We're Disability Confident Committed - let our Talent team know if you need any reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

As Talent Management Partner, you will play a key role in delivering ASOS' talent management agenda, helping us build the skills and capabilities we need and develop, deploy and retain talent, so we have the right people in the right roles at the right time.

Reporting to the Head of Talent Management, you will drive the development of our skills framework and skills-based approach to talent, oversee performance management, and support the delivery of talent reviews and succession planning. Working closely with leaders, People Partners, Talent Acquisition and Reward, you will help ensure our new EVP and Values are reflected in every talent decision. 

Skills and Capability

• Driving the design and roll-out of a common skills language and skills profiles across ASOS.
• Working with leaders to identify the priority skills and capabilities the business needs now and in the future, and assessing current capability gaps.
• Developing skills-based development pathways, resources and guidance that help ASOSers grow their capabilities and careers.
• Partnering with Talent Acquisition on build, buy, borrow or redeploy decisions for priority capabilities.
• Supporting the pilot of an internal opportunity marketplace, connecting ASOSers to projects, roles and development opportunities based on their skills.
• Contributing to workforce plans and capability pipelines for priority business capabilities.
• Using skills data to track capability growth and report on progress.

Performance Management

• Overseeing the annual performance cycle, from objective setting linked to our functional OKRs, through quarterly check-ins, to year-end review.
• Coordinating and supporting calibration sessions to ensure high-performance ratings are consistent and fair across functions.
• Designing and continually improving manager guidance, FAQs and calibration resources that support a consistent, high-quality performance cycle.
• Analysing and formatting performance data to identify and share trends, flagging inconsistencies and tracking completion.

Talent Reviews and Succession

• Partnering with the Head of Talent Management to deliver the annual talent review cycle: building data packs that drive meaningful discussion, coordinating sessions with leaders and tracking agreed actions.
• Supporting the identification and recording of top talent across all functions.
• Supporting managers to record development plans in Workday for top talent.
• Maintaining succession data and reporting on bench strength and readiness.
• Analysing talent data to identify key trends and help ensure outcomes are fair and inclusive.

Talent Philosophy and Values

• Supporting the roll-out of the ASOS Talent Philosophy across all functions.
• Embedding our values and behaviours into performance, talent review, succession and promotion processes.
• Creating toolkits, guides and resources for managers and ASOSers.

Stakeholder Partnering

• Partnering with Talent & Culture Team, leaders and People Partners to deliver talent processes on time.
• Coaching managers to hold effective performance, talent and career conversations.
• Using Workday, people data and AI tools to report on progress and simplify processes.
• Supporting our culture by championing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion strategies.

We believe being together in person helps us move faster, connect more deeply, and achieve more as a team. That’s why our approach to working together includes spending at least 3 days a week in the office. It’s a rhythm that speeds up decision-making, helps ASOSers learn from each other more quickly, and builds the kind of culture where people can grow, create, and succeed.

About you

• Experience of skills-based talent practices, such as building skills frameworks, assessing capability or designing skills-based development.
• Experience delivering performance management, talent review or succession planning processes within a fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of talent management best practice, including potential, readiness and development planning.
• Proven project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities and workstreams simultaneously.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to influence and challenge at all levels.
• Experience using people data and analytics to identify insights and inform decisions.
• Strong understanding of DE&I principles, with a commitment to fair, evidence-based decision-making.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including creating clear guidance and toolkits.
• A collaborative working style that reflects our values.
• Experience with Workday or similar HR systems.

BeneFITS’

• Employee discount (hello ASOS discount!)
• Employee sample sales
• 25 days paid annual leave + an extra celebration day for a special moment
• Performance related bonus
• Private medical care scheme
• Opportunity for personalised learning and in-the-moment experiences that enable you to thrive and excel in your role.