Talent & Development Partner

Description

As Talent \& Development Partner at CFC, you’ll shape and deliver our enterprise\-wide talent and development strategy, bringing a clear focus on leadership capability, succession, and organisational impact that goes beyond traditional L\&D.

This is a hands\-on role where you’ll turn strategy into action, designing and embedding high\-impact programmes that elevate performance and accelerate internal mobility. You’ll lead on leadership development and high\-potential programmes, ensuring everything you deliver is aligned to business priorities and makes a measurable difference.### Key Responsibilities

• Partner closely with the Head of Talent \& Development to deliver a consistent, high\-impact approach to talent and succession planning across the business.


• Design and deliver leadership development programmes (including Management Essentials and Emerging Leaders) that build capability, strengthen performance, and support long\-term growth.


• Lead the annual talent review process for senior populations, working with HRBPs and business leaders to identify future successors, assess readiness, and define clear, actionable development plans; evolving frameworks in line with business growth.


• Develop targeted pathways for high\-potential talent; accelerating readiness for critical roles; strengthening leadership and specialist pipelines.


• Promote internal mobility by shaping clear, practical career pathways, working in partnership to ensure frameworks are relevant, accessible, and used across the business.


• Use talent data and insight to inform workforce planning, identify gaps, and guide decision\-making.


• Support the ongoing development of CFC’s performance framework, ensuring it is clear, practical, and aligned to business priorities.


• Lead the annual performance cycle; driving clarity, consistency, and strong adoption across teams.


• Equip leaders with the tools and confidence to set meaningful goals and have effective performance and development conversations.


• Track impact through data and feedback; using insight to continuously improve the effectiveness of talent and performance initiatives.


• Support calibration and governance processes to ensure fairness, consistency, and rigour across the organisation.


• Refresh tools and templates to improve usability; and bring the experience in line with a more modern, best\-in\-class Talent \& Development function.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

• Experience in financial services, insurance, or a fast\-paced commercial environment, with a clear understanding of how talent drives business performance.


• Proven track record delivering leadership and high\-potential programmes that strengthen capability and support progression.


• Strong experience in succession planning and talent reviews, able to run credible, pragmatic processes with senior stakeholders.


• Data\-led in approach, using insight to inform decisions and measure impact.


• A confident facilitator and collaborator, able to influence, manage priorities, and deliver at pace.


• Experience working with external partners and learning tools, with a focus on quality, relevance, and value.


• A clear communicator with a commercial, outcome\-focused mindset.

About CFC

CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting\-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.

Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Austin, Madrid, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 1100 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries.

At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.

CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.

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