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About the Role
At The Crown Estate, our purpose is to create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation. As the Leadership, Performance & Talent Director, you will play a pivotal role in shaping how leadership, performance and talent are enabled across the organisation. This role is the enterprise lead for leadership, performance and talent, responsible for creating the systems, standards and conditions that support high performance at scale. You will ensure our leadership framework and performance approach are translated into clear, consistent and evidence led practices, helping leaders make better decisions, develop future capability and deliver long-term value.
Responsibilities
- Owning and evolving the enterprise wide leadership, performance and talent framework.
- Embedding leadership expectations and performance standards into everyday practice across the business.
- Leading the approach to talent identification, succession planning and leadership pipeline development.
- Using data, diagnostics and insight to assess capability, measure impact and inform investment decisions.
- Shaping leadership development and coaching strategies, ensuring programmes deliver meaningful performance outcomes.
- Providing governance and oversight of executive and senior hiring frameworks to ensure alignment with future capability needs and equitable decision making.
- Acting as the business owner for performance technology, driving adoption, governance and continuous improvement.
- Ensuring leadership, performance and talent decisions are fair, consistent, evidence based and aligned to organisational priorities.
- Working collaboratively across Business Partnering, Learning, Talent Acquisition, Reward and business leadership teams to deliver sustainable organisational impact.
Requirements
- Significant experience designing and leading enterprise-wide leadership, performance and talent strategies aligned to business objectives.
- Strong expertise in evidence led practice, drawing on organisational psychology, behavioural science, assessment methodologies and workforce insights.
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives to influence complex talent, leadership and succession decisions.
- A track record of delivering outcomes through collaboration, influence and partnership rather than direct authority.
- Strong analytical capability, with experience using data and insight to evaluate effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
- The ability to balance organisational priorities, make strategic decisions and focus resources where they will create the greatest impact.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively and build trusted relationships.
- A values-led approach, demonstrating a commitment to equity, inclusion and fair decision-making.
Skills
- Leadership
- Performance
- Talent Management
- Organisational Effectiveness
- Strategic Planning
- Data Analysis
- Stakeholder Management
- Communication
Location
- The Crown Estate
Work Type
- Flexible working
Experience Level
- Director
Salary/Compensations
- Competitive salary
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Pension
- Performance related bonus
- Flexible working
- Market leading family policies
- Shopping discounts in the West End
- Private healthcare
- Life cover
- Critical illness cover
- 28 days holiday
- Option to buy more holiday
About the Company
- The Crown Estate's purpose is to create lasting and shared prosperity for the nation.
- We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a proud disability confident employer and operate the offer of interview scheme Disability Confident employer scheme - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
- We are happy to offer alternative application methods or formats and can be flexible on our process to enable you to have the best opportunity.