Talent Development & Performance Management Lead

About the role

Absa Group is looking for a Talent Development & Performance Management Lead in Gaborone, Botswana. This role sits at the centre of talent strategy and learning delivery, with responsibility for strengthening how the business identifies, develops, retains, and measures talent. The position supports the creation of a strong performance culture and helps translate talent and learning activity into better business outcomes and return on investment.

With more than 100 years of history, Absa presents itself as a locally rooted bank with regional and international reach. The organisation describes this opportunity as part of a wider journey to build the future of the bank and contribute to a proudly African group.

Role summary

The successful candidate will lead and support talent management across the business, while also shaping and delivering technical, basic, and soft-skills development initiatives. The role is strategic and requires reviewing workforce capability needs, suggesting practical talent solutions, and improving the systems and processes that support talent management at Absa Bank Botswana.

Key responsibilities

• Guide People Business Partners through talent reviews, talent mapping, and the design of development actions for high-potential employees.
• Keep talent policies, procedures, and guidelines current and ensure they are applied consistently across the end-to-end talent process.
• Work with people partners to build manager capability on Absa talent processes, including Workday tools, assessment methods, career planning, development, and exit processes.
• Maintain accurate records for top talent, critical skills, and succession planning within the country.
• Execute talent development and retention actions agreed during talent reviews and engagement discussions.
• Track outputs from people plans for critical individuals and follow up on agreed actions.
• Advise People and Culture leaders on current thinking and emerging approaches in talent management and retention.
• Develop practical direct-to-market talent sourcing solutions, including candidate pipelines and online recruitment channels.
• Support psychometric testing, assessment centres, and development centres, and help translate outcomes into development plans.
• Research competitor practices, build industry networks, attend relevant events and job fairs, and connect with labour agencies and wider talent sources.
• Analyse workforce development needs arising from business-as-usual and change initiatives, and recommend the most suitable response.
• Design and deliver learning curricula that strengthen core technical and leadership capability across the organisation.
• Ensure learning delivery is cost-effective and adapted to cultural, educational, and technology considerations while still meeting performance goals.
• Stay aligned to key business priorities and understand how each function contributes to the wider organisation.
• Set up monitoring and evaluation methods for development initiatives so performance improvements and return on investment can be measured.
• Plan, coordinate, and deliver training and coaching aligned to country learning and development plans.
• Manage graduate development and internship programmes end to end so that the business attracts, develops, and retains strong early-career talent.
• Create and use tools to track the effectiveness of training and broader people-development activities.
• Work with the Head of Leadership, Learning and Talent to define relevant metrics and ensure data is captured to assess performance against them.
• Maintain the talent scorecard and vacancy tracker so sourcing progress and overall talent performance can be monitored.
• Analyse relevant workforce and talent data to identify trends, support policy development, and contribute to group-level thinking.
• Ensure talent management and learning policies are correctly implemented throughout the business.

Requirements

• A Bachelor's Degree in Psychology is required.
• Demonstrated experience in talent management, learning and development, succession planning, or related people-development work is implied by the scope of the role.
• Ability to work with assessment tools, talent data, and performance metrics.
• Strong advisory, stakeholder management, and facilitation skills.
• Capacity to design training solutions and improve talent processes in a business environment.

Additional information

The role is based in Gaborone, Botswana and is a full-time, onsite position. No salary, stipend, opening count, or start date has been provided in the source information.

The role also references the management of a Graduate Development Program and Internship Program, as well as the use of Workday, psychometric assessments, assessment centres, development centres, a talent scorecard, and a vacancy tracker.

Absa’s description of the employer emphasises a long history, regional and international expertise, and a commitment to helping employees design their future through career development support.

About the employer

Absa Group presents itself as a proudly African financial services group with more than a century of history and a strong local presence. The organisation highlights its regional and international capability and frames this opportunity as part of a broader growth and transformation journey.