Director of Talent Development at United Media

United Media; City Of London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic media organization in London is seeking a Director of Talent Development to lead learning and development initiatives. This role requires a strong communicator with ownership and organizational skills, offering the opportunity to truly impact team growth. The successful candidate will drive progressive change through strategic training and development programs. The position is on-site, Monday to Friday, near Victoria Station.

Benefits

Opportunity for significant operational experience

Travel opportunities for overseas conferences

Unlimited growth potential within the company

Qualifications

• Experience in business management.
• Ambitious and forward-thinking mindset.
• Relevant UK work permit.

Responsibilities

• Develop progressive learning and development opportunities for team members.
• Implement strategic plans for training needs.
• Create development programs to enhance team performance.
• Drive synergies across business functions.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Organizational skills

Proactive ownership

Interpersonal skills

Job description

Overview

London, United Kingdom

Director of Talent Development at United Media — you thrive in a fast-paced environment, take on significant responsibility, and are curious about people. If so, you might be our next Director of Talent Development.

About us

United Media focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc.

What we offer you

• Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
• Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
• Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
• Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.
• Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.

Responsibilities

• Building the most progressive learning and development opportunity for team members across levels of experience.
• Thinking progressively about how we can achieve our ambitious company goals through equipping our amazing employees with the right tools to achieve their goals.
• Developing and implementing strategic plans for learning and development, including identifying training needs and developing training programs to address them.
• Creating development programs that empower the team to continuously overdeliver and deliver 7-star experiences across business areas.
• Identifying and driving synergies across business functions.
• To dream big and pursue it relentlessly!

What we expect from you

We are looking for experienced business managers to help us reach our objectives. Industry experience is not a requirement, but you do need to be highly ambitious, forward-thinking and driven to inspire and lead our team. Furthermore, having a UK work permit is also a requirement.

Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:

• Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do;
• Possess an unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency;
• Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments;
• Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations;
• Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing;
• Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.

Start date

Flexible

Location: London (HQ next to Victoria Station). Monday - Friday we work from our office and do not offer remote work.