Head of Learning Delivery

Rolls-Royce; Derby; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company seeks a Head of Learning Delivery to spearhead their learning strategy, ensuring compliance and enhancing employee capabilities. This pivotal role involves managing global learning delivery teams and fostering a culture of continuous learning across the organization.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Bonus

Employee Support Assistance

Employee Discounts

Qualifications

• Specialist knowledge in Learning and Development.
• Experience in Skills-Based Organisation.
• Ability to lead through influence.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for delivery of learning services across the Enterprise.
• Responsible for £20 million+ annual learning budget.
• Ensure learning solutions are compliant with policy.

Skills

Learning and Development

Vendor Management

Programme Management

Business Acumen

Collaboration

Job description

Job Description

Head of Learning Delivery

Full time

UK – Hybrid

This position is being advertised to form a pipeline of candidates for current and future positions within Civil Aerospace, therefore applicants should not expect feedback immediately. However, we will endeavour to review your CV in a timely manner.

What you will be doing

The Head of Learning Delivery brings our Leatro learning strategy to life, focused on us building capability, meeting our regulatory obligations, in addition to driving the learning culture we aspire to have. You will lead the global learning delivery team and the associated vendors to deliver learning to all employees across the enterprise. We have the opportunity to leverage learning in delivering enhanced value for the organisation – as well as enabling our colleagues to thrive in the future world of work. This role is pivotal in delivering these outcomes.

This role promotes learning and develops learning agility and strong learning culture across the enterprise. You will be working closely with the Head Office SME team, Business leaders and Divisional specialists to ensure that all employees are maximising the learning opportunities that exist to continually evolve their capability. You will be supporting the #AlwaysLearning culture by ensuring that all learning technology is connected, easily accessible across the Enterprise and evolves to support communities of practice within the business. Owns the governance of digital learning content quality for the Enterprise. Responsible for ensuring a great Employee Experience for all new learning technology and managing key internal and external partners to enable that

Why Rolls-Royce?

Rolls-Royce is one of the most enduring and iconic brands in the world and has been at the forefront of innovation for over a century. We design, build and service systems that provide critical power to customers where safety and reliability are paramount.

We are proud to be a force for progress, powering, protecting, and connecting people everywhere.

We want to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that has shaped our history continues into our future, and we need people like you to come and join us on this journey.

We’ll provide an environment of caring and belonging where you can be yourself. An inclusive, innovative culture that invests in you, gives you access to an incredible breadth and depth of opportunities where you can grow your career and make a difference.

What we offer

We offer excellent development opportunities, a competitive salary, and exceptional benefits. These include bonus, employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Your needs are as unique as you are. Hybrid working is a way in which our people can balance their time between the office, home, or another remote location. It’s a locally managed and flexed informal discretionary arrangement. As a minimum we’re all expected to attend the workplace for collaboration and other specific reasons, on average three days per week.

Responsibilities

• Accountable for the delivery of learning services across the Enterprise to required safety, cost, quality and delivery time.
• Accountable for the service costs with our vendors and the through spend the Business Divisions make in investing in employee learning. This role is responsible for £20million + annually. As our learning needs and colleague expectations grow this role is accountable for ensuring the service stays relevant, progressive and of benchmark value to Rolls-Royce plc.
• Responsible for the mobilisation of strategic intent into enterprise reality in partnership with Head Office subject matter experts.
• Accountable for supplier management of learning services including benchmark value, and the evolution of our supplier strategy.
• Responsible for the development/procurement of solutions that build the skills needed and prioritised by the Enterprise.
• Accountable for the colleague experience of all services associated with our ‘Leatro’ learning brand and improving that experience in line with strategy.
• Provide insights and best practice to support the Enterprise in its utilisation of learning to develop necessary skills.
• Responsible for learning services and products to be compliant with relevant policy and legislation.
• Ensure our learning and development offering is fully understood across the wider People Function and develop collateral that can be used by People teams within all parts of the Enterprise.
• Work with Talent Acquisition teams to ensure that learning and development is accurately reflected in our People Deal.
• Ensure that our People calendar (and processes) are supported with just-in time high quality learning solutions and work with Internal Communications teams to deploy these.
• Ensure that colleagues and People teams are aware of and know how to access any new learning technology implemented in the organisation.
• Work to actively develop the habit of learning, and a culture of ‘growth mindset’ & ‘learning agility’ across the organisation.
• Ensures that all learning solutions are easy to find and access and are increasingly integrated within the normal flow of work; served up on an automated basis (leveraging AI enabled solutions & technologies) for colleagues.
• Monitors and measures learner engagement, learner reach & business impact.
• Work with Communications teams to create, and refresh colleague testimonials related to learning and communicate these across the Enterprise.
• Ensure that harder to reach audiences have the same access and opportunity to learning (i.e. shop floor & field-based colleagues).
• Own the build out of Learning Metrics and the provision of ongoing learning data at Enterprise level and provide pro-active Insights for the Divisions and Enabling Functions to act upon.

Who we’re looking for:

• Specialist knowledge in Learning and Development, particularly in the learning operations & delivery space, with proven focus on continually evolving and keeping up to date with industry trends
• Experience of working within a Skills-Based Organisation/an organisation that has been on the journey to implementing a Skills-Based approach – as a minimum an understanding of what is required to deploy learning in an agile Skills-Based environment
• Experience and/or enthusiasm in the use of AI and advanced technologies in order to move learning delivery operations to a ‘Performance Support’ based approach; fully integrates into the flow of work
• A leader who has demonstrated their ability to mobilise both internal teams and supplier vendors to lead performance and change and has successfully made a step change in Learning culture in another organisation
• Global mindset and cultural sensitivity to effectively work across Enterprise, Regions, Divisions & Functions
• Ability to build relationships and collaborate across a matrix organisation. Ability to lead through influence
• Business acumen, vendor management and programme management skills required

At Rolls-Royce we put safety first, do the right thing, keep it simple and make a difference. These principles form the behaviours that guide us and are an essential component of our assessment process. They are the fundamental qualities that we seek for all roles.

We are an equal opportunities employer. We’re committed to developing a diverse workforce and an inclusive working environment. We believe that people from different backgrounds and cultures give us different perspectives which are crucial to innovation and problem solving. We believe the more diverse perspectives we have, the more successful we’ll be. By building a culture of caring and belonging, we give everyone who works here the opportunity to realise their full potential.

We welcome applications from people with a refugee background.

You can learn more about our global Inclusion strategy at Our people | Rolls-Royce

Closing date: 20th May 2025

Job Category Human Resources Posting Date 06 May 2025; 00:05 Posting End Date 20 May 2025