Executive Leadership Development Specialist

BT Group; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BT as an Executive Leadership Development Specialist, where you will support leadership capability development to drive organizational success. As part of the People & Culture team, you’ll manage succession planning and create impactful leadership programs that align with BT’s business strategies. Your role will involve close collaboration with key stakeholders, providing you the opportunity to foster an inclusive and innovative culture at BT.

Benefits

10% on target bonus

18 weeks equal family leave at full pay

Enhanced women’s health support

25 days annual leave, increasing with service

24/7 private virtual GP appointments

2 weeks carer’s leave

World-class training and development opportunities

Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

Qualifications

• Helps employees gain and develop leadership competencies.
• Develops a clear business case for interventions.
• Facilitates talent review programs.

Responsibilities

• Deliver leadership assessment and inform development activities.
• Drive and oversee BT wide succession planning process.
• Consult with business stakeholders to build effective development products.

Skills

Leadership Development

Talent Management

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Management

Relationship Building

Commercial Acumen

Job description

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Function: HR

Unit: HR

Location:

One Braham (4140), London, United Kingdom

Job Title:Executive Leadership Development Specialist

Location: Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester

Join BT as an Executive Leadership Development Specialist

About People & Culture Team
The BT People and Culture team is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, innovative, and engaging work environment where every employee can thrive. We focus on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, ensuring that our workforce is equipped with the skills and support needed to drive our business forward. By championing diversity & wellbeing, promoting continuous learning, and being focused on delivering value for our organisation, we create a culture that empowers our people to deliver exceptional results for our customers and communities. Aligned with BT's vision to "connect for good," we amplify the power of people and technology to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges and build meaningful connections.

The Executive Leadership Development Specialist supports the Senior Specialist in driving the Executive Leadership Development and Succession Planning Agenda, supporting the definition, deployment and ongoing management of new products and owning BAU relevant processes.

They will deliver leadership assessment and inform development activities and programmes that generate a significant shift in leadership capability and drive and oversee BT wide succession planning process and support People & Culture BP’s and other key touchpoints with advisory and upskilling.

What you'll be doing

• Deliver leadership assessment and inform development activities and programmes that generate a significant shift in leadership capability
• Drive and oversee BT wide succession planning process and support People & Culture BP’s and other key touchpoints with advisory and upskilling.
• Gather and analyse data to understand the leadership shifts required and translate into tangible actions to address gaps and use diagnostics and other tools as appropriate to support data driven development activity
• Consult with the business and work closely with stakeholders including suppliers and SMEs to build effective executive leadership development products and assure quality and buy in of deliverables
• Defines and clearly articulates business case for the approach and frameworks that deliver meaningful value to BT and is anchored in the business strategy
• Measures, monitors and analyses the outcomes and impact of executive leadership development programs and initiatives and analyses and interprets data to foster data-driven decision making and insight.
• Keeps up to date with industry best practice in leadership development and implements best practice and improvements.
• Drives the design, development, management and ongoing maintenance Executive Leadership development products and programs within the organization, owning product definition through to development and deployment, leading a delivery team of specialists and/or professionals throughout the product lifecycle.
• Measures, monitors and analyses the outcomes and impact of Executive Leadership initiatives and programmes, as well as external data and workforce trends, fostering data-driven decision making and insight.
• Owns the Executive Leadership product portfolio, ensuring coherence and consistency of products within their portfolio and the broader People & Culture function, alignment with the BTs goals, and overall quality assurance.

Skills and Experience You’ll Need:

• Leadership Development: Helps employees gain and develop leadership competencies and prepares them for management and leadership roles within an organisation.
• Talent Management: Inclusively identifies, develops, and retains talented employees to support the effectiveness of the organisation as a whole. Facilitating activities and opportunities that get the best out of talented employees.
• Talent Review: Plans, prepares and facilitates a talent review program in which leaders review employees' strengths, development areas, and potential career trajectories.
• Commercial acumen: can clearly articulate the current business performance and leverage the people levers to enhance performance or productivity
• Business case development: is able to develop a clear business case that outlines the context, insight, the proposal and a method to evaluate the impact of the intervention
  Storytelling, leveraging data and insights to drive business outcomes.
• Data Analysis: Collects and interprets data in order to uncover patterns and trends.
• Stakeholder Management: Organises, monitors and improves relationships with stakeholders.
• Relationship Building: Connects with others and forming positive relationships.
• 10% on target bonus
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues
• 2 weeks carer’s leave
• World-class training and development opportunities
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes

A Few Points To Note:

Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.

We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.

Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.