Capability and Competency Manager

Hitachi; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global transportation company is seeking a Competency and Capability Manager in London. This role focuses on developing and aligning capability frameworks with strategic business needs, collaborating with HR units for talent development, and ensuring data governance related to competencies. The ideal candidate should have strong metrics skills and cross-functional experience in HR and IT. This position offers a full-time contract in a dynamic environment committed to inclusion and equal opportunities.

Qualifications

• Ability to align frameworks and programmes with business strategy.
• Strong cross-functional engagement with HR and IT.
• Use of metrics and data to inform decisions.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for supporting the implementation of global HR processes.
• Collaborate to support accurate implementation in HR systems.
• Ensure competence and capability data governance.

Skills

Compliance Management

Administrative Functions

Oversight

Budget Preparation

Facilities Management

Tools

Workday

Job description

Location

London, United Kingdom

Job ID

R0114432

Date Posted

Company Name: HITACHI RAIL LIMITED

Job Category

Human Resources

Job Schedule

Full time

Remote

No

About Us

A career at Hitachi Rail will help create a legacy. With operations in every corner of the world our work goes to the cutting‑edge of digital transformation and technology. From the multi‑cultural strength of our global organisation to the sustainable and innovative ways we work to bring people together theres something for everyone to get stuck into. And thats where you come in.

Job Description – Competency and Capability Manager

Permanent – London / Remote The Competency and Capability Unit ensures the capability development strategy. This unit is responsible for developing, maintaining and embedding the job architecture framework ensuring alignment with regional and business priorities and needs, strategic workforce planning, talent development and business transformation initiatives. The unit ensures the definition and design of the career pathing framework and process to support employee growth, mobility and engagement.

Responsible for supporting the regional implementation of global framework processes, initiatives and tools providing the right level of expertise and process improvement solutions aligned to the relevant regional unit / geo area needs.

Design, maintain and govern the companys competence and capability model and framework (e.g. job architecture, job families, job levels and job descriptions) in alignment with business and corporate strategy, collecting relevant requirements, needs and priorities from regional HR units, HR CoEs, HR business partners and corporate.

Collaborate with HRBPs, Regional HR, Shared Services and CoE Units to support accurate implementation in the HR systems (e.g. Workday).

Collaborate with HRBPs regional HR and COEs to integrate internal talent pipelines into strategic workforce planning.

Ensure the design of competence and capability Model in alignment with external frameworks (e.g. Mercer, Korn Ferry) where needed.

Define and design structured career paths within and across job families to support employee development and internal mobility in strict collaboration with the other HR Units and in alignment with HR strategy and corporate guidelines.

Create tools and guidelines to support career conversations between managers and employees.

In alignment with business strategy and corporare initiatives ensure the collection of capability reskilling/upskilling needs through regional HRBPs, CoEs in order to propose and design global upskilling/upslkilling initiatives based on business transformation future skill requirements and talent insights.

Ensure competence and capability data governance model aimed at ensuring data integrity and transparency related to roles, competencies and capabilities within HiNext.

Define, monitor and report competence and capability global KPIs (e.g. role coverage, job description completeness, mobility patterns).

Use analytics to provide strategic insights on capability gaps and workforce readiness in collaboration with HRBPs, CoEs and regions.

Ensure the global competence and capability process design in order to support the strategic skills development including digital and niche capabilities.

Partner with HRBPs regional HR and CoEs to define Learning & Development needs and relevant initiatives to be implemented at global / regional level to close capability gaps.

About You – Qualifications

• Ability to align frameworks and programmes with business strategy.

• Strong cross‑functional engagement with HR, Talent Acquisition, Compensation & Benefits and IT.

• Use of metrics and data to inform decisions and track progress.

• Driving continuous improvement and adoption of new systems and practices.

• Knowledge of leadership models, technical skill taxonomies and cultural values.

• Knowledge of career development theory, workforce planning and organisational mobility practices.

• Ability in designing upskilling initiatives and addressing skills gaps.

• Familiarity with platforms like Workday and learning management systems.

• Capability to develop a collection, organisation and interpretation of data. Capability to analyse data to support the planning and forecasting processes. Knowledge of the main statistical models/techniques and tools for the development of analysis about specific figures.

• Knowledge of the main techniques and tools aimed to create and to update a work plan. Capability to define to plan and to estimate the activities required to reach a specific goal. Ability to create documents, diagrams or meetings to discuss the important issues to be addressed the objectives to be met and the strategy to be followed. Capability to develop forecasting analysis.

Key Skills

• Compliance Management
• Administrative Functions
• Oversight
• Administrative Activities
• Administrative Tasks
• Budget Preparation
• Facilities Management
• Daily Operations
• Account Management
• General Ledger Accounts
• Personnel Files
• Administrative Management
• Financial Statements
• Administrative Operations
• Annual Budget

Employment Type

Full‑Time

Experience

years

Vacancy

1

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