Pathway Programme Manager NE - Nordhavn

Join Us in Shaping Future Leaders    To strengthen our Partner Development team, we’re searching for a Pathway Programme Manager to join us in strengthening the leadership pipeline by maintaining a transparent, structured, and business-driven assessment framework and ensures that Partners enter their roles with the right capabilities to succeed.  At Specsavers, we’re dedicated to making eye and hearing care accessible to all. As pioneers and a global leader in innovative technologies, we help people optimise their vision and hearing. We foster your expertise, welcome you into a supportive family, and propel your growth. Grounded in our collaboration, curiosity, courage, and compassion values, we strive to challenge the status quo and invite you to team up with us.    Your role  As our Pathway Program Manager, you will lead, optimize, and implement a structured and centralized approach to candidate assessment, ensuring high standards, consistency, and fairness in evaluating potential Partners. Working closely with Partner Development, Recruitment, and Country Stakeholders, this role ensures that assessments align with business needs and that candidates receive valuable feedback and development opportunities. The Pathway Program Manager is also responsible for continuously improving the assessment processes, engaging key stakeholders, and elevating the candidate experience.    Your primary tasks and responsibilities include:  Lead and implement a consistent and centralized approach to assessing internal and external candidates for partnership.  Organize and lead assessment days, ensuring Specsavers is perceived as an attractive and professional employer.  Implement an assessment framework that ensures candidates possess the necessary leadership skills and business acumen to succeed as Partners, ensuring a fair, professional, and inclusive process.  Maintain an updated overview of candidates and ensure all candidates receive high-quality feedback, fostering their growth and readiness for partnership.  Engage with key stakeholders to promote and drive engagement in the assessment framework, fostering alignment, transparency, and active involvement.  Collaborate closely with business leaders and Recruitment to align assessment processes with business needs, ensuring transparency in candidate volume and procedures.  Establish and maintain a group of experienced Partners from various roles and countries to participate in candidate evaluations, supporting consistency and fairness.  Optimize and refine the assessment process in collaboration with country stakeholders, utilizing digital tools and assessment technologies to streamline the evaluation process.    This role involves occasional travel to engage with stakeholders and support the assessment process for Partner candidates.    Your new team  As our new Pathway Program Manager, you’ll report directly to the Head of Partner Development for Northern Europe. You’ll become an essential part of the vibrant Partner Development team, working closely with a group of talented and passionate colleagues.  Our team operates both on-site at our offices in the Northern Europe region (Norway, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, and Denmark) and embraces hybrid work, offering flexibility. This role will be based in Copenhagen.    Here are some of the benefits you’ll enjoy as part of Specsavers:  Join our global team of friendly, talented, and passionate colleagues. Enjoy a competitive salary package with perks such as pensions, (health insurance), free eye care vouchers, and more.  Grow in your role with free access to online learning, monthly one-on-one discussions with your manager, personalised development plans, and increased responsibility.  We offer a fun work environment with great coffee, laughter, table tennis tournaments, birthday surprises, holiday celebrations, virtual Friday quizzes, and more.     Your qualifications For the role as our Pathway Programme Manager, we are seeking an excellent facilitator with outstanding presentation and communication skills, and the ability to engage and inspire stakeholders.    To thrive in this role at Specsavers, you should meet the following requirements:  Strong experience with assessment processes or recruitment.  Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage and influence key business leaders.  A structured and detail-oriented approach to process management and continuous optimization.  Strong commercial awareness and understanding of business in a retail environment.  Experience working in a matrix organization, collaborating across different functions.  Strong project management skills, with the ability to drive process improvements and lead change initiatives.    Your development  Within 3 months, you’ll:    Receive a structured onboarding to help you settle into the role and connect with colleagues across the business.  Build a strong understanding of the Pathway Programme by engaging with UK colleagues and speaking to key stakeholders in your region.  Begin identifying improvement areas within the current assessment process and explore potential solutions.      Within 6-12 months, you:    Take ownership of the Pathway Programme agenda in your region, ensuring active involvement from key stakeholders.  Confidently navigate our matrix organisation, building strong cross-functional and cross-market relationships.  Establish yourself as the go-to expert on Partner candidate assessment.  Begin shaping and co-creating the future assessment process in collaboration with stakeholders.    Further development:  We have a strong focus on your personal development plan to make sure that your competencies and skills continue to be best in class  You can grow professionally in an organisation that recognises your skills and personality.      Curious to learn more? Apply today  To apply, please send us your CV using the button below. We want to respect your time, so including an application letter is optional. Feel free to apply as soon as possible.    Please avoid including any photos or references to your age in your CV. It contributes to a fairer and more unbiased assessment.   We review CV’s and call in for interviews continuously and in standard, our recruitment process consists of a screening, 2-rounds of interviews including personality assessment feedback.   If you’re interested in learning more about the incredible team you’ll be joining and our shared goals as a family business, visit our pages: This is who we are, and This is what we do.    Diversity & Inclusion at Specsavers  Specsavers will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other legally protected factor.    In line with our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, we integrate these principles into all aspects of our work, from product development to team building.  #LI-LF1 About Specsavers It’s 1984, on the small Channel Island of Guernsey, when the optometrist couple Doug and Mary Perkins lay the foundation of their new optical company. 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