Head of Talent, Workforce & Learning Delivery

Aldermore Bank; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus potential

Core benefits

Job summary

Aldermore Bank is hiring a Head of Talent, Workforce & Learning Delivery to shape how we attract, develop and prepare talent for the future. This senior role translates business strategy into workforce planning, talent management and enterprise learning, influencing senior leaders and delivering measurable impact.

The role leads a team to deliver leadership assessment, development programmes and a portfolio of learning initiatives across the Group, ensuring evidence-based decisions and strong

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading workforce planning, talent management and succession strategies.
• Strong experience designing and embedding enterprise-wide talent and performance frameworks.
• Expertise in leadership assessment, leadership development and management capability programmes.
• Experience leading large-scale learning, talent or people programme portfolios and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret workforce data and MI to support decisions.

Responsibilities

• Lead Aldermore's strategic workforce planning approach aligned to business priorities.
• Own and evolve talent and succession frameworks with diverse pipelines for critical roles.
• Lead the enterprise performance framework to support development and business objectives.
• Shape leadership assessment and development programmes and drive succession planning.
• Oversee manager and leadership development programmes across the Group.
• Oversee enterprise learning initiatives focused on measurable impact.
• Partner with Talent, Learning, and capability teams for a joined-up approach.
• Provide senior leaders with workforce and performance insights for risk and opportunities.

Skills

Workforce planning

Talent management

Succession planning

Leadership development

Performance frameworks

Leadership assessment

Stakeholder management

Change management

Team leadership

Governance & compliance

Job description

Let Us Tell You a Bit About The Opportunity

We're looking for an experienced and strategic Head of Talent, Workforce & Learning Delivery to play a pivotal role in shaping how Aldermore attracts, develops and prepares talent for the future.

This is a highly visible leadership role, responsible for translating business strategy into an integrated approach to workforce planning, talent management, succession, leadership development and enterprise learning. You'll work closely with senior leaders across the Group to ensure we have the capability, leadership strength and organisational readiness needed to deliver our ambitions.

You'll have the opportunity to influence organisation-wide frameworks and programmes, using insight and evidence to drive decision-making and demonstrate measurable business impact. Leading a talented team, you'll help create a culture where colleagues can thrive, grow and perform at their best.

What will your day look like?

• Lead Aldermore's strategic workforce planning approach, ensuring future workforce and capability requirements are aligned to business priorities.
• Own and continuously evolve the Group's talent and succession frameworks, building strong and diverse pipelines for critical roles.
• Lead the enterprise performance framework, ensuring it supports colleague development, organisational performance and business objectives.
• Shape and oversee leadership assessment and development programmes that strengthen leadership capability and support succession planning.
• Lead the design and delivery of manager and leadership development programmes across the Group.
• Oversee a portfolio of enterprise learning initiatives, ensuring learning priorities are evidence-based, accessible and focused on measurable impact.
• Partner with colleagues across Talent, Learning and specialist capability teams to deliver a joined-up approach to colleague development.
• Provide senior leaders with meaningful workforce, talent, performance and succession insights, helping identify emerging risks, opportunities and priorities.
• Establish and track measures of success across the portfolio, using workforce data, feedback and evaluation to demonstrate value and inform decisions.
• Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders across the business to support delivery of strategic objectives.
• Champion a culture of continuous learning and high performance across the organisation.
• Lead, coach and develop the Talent, Workforce & Learning Delivery team, creating a collaborative, high-performing environment.

What do we expect from you?

We're looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with strong delivery capability and a passion for developing people and organisational capability.

You’ll bring:

• Significant experience leading workforce planning, talent management and succession strategies.
• Strong experience designing and embedding enterprise-wide talent and performance frameworks.
• Expertise in leadership assessment, leadership development and management capability programmes.
• Experience leading large-scale learning, talent or people programme portfolios and delivering measurable outcomes.
• Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret workforce data and management information to support decision-making.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working effectively with senior leaders and cross-functional teams.
• Proven ability to lead complex organisational change and drive adoption across multiple business areas.
• Experience leading and developing high performing teams.
• An understanding of governance, risk and regulatory considerations within workforce, talent and learning activities.

What can you expect from us?

• A hybrid working policy, 3 days per week onsite in our Manchester office.
• A friendly and flexible culture, the same as how we work with our customers.
• Opportunities for career progression
• A drive for continuous improvement, which you will be empowered to get behind from day one.
• And of course, you will be rewarded competitively, with a good range of core benefits and bonus potential.

Aldermore Group – why we exist

Let us tell you a bit about us

We’re Aldermore – the award-winning bank, trusted and highly rated by over a quarter of a million customers for more than a decade. With our range of specialist mortgages, savings accounts and business finance solutions, we're backing more people to go for it.

We thrive by saying “yes” to our customers. We respect the ingenuity of entrepreneurs and their startups; we give first-timers a leg-up onto the property ladder; we open up the lending market to many; and thousands of customers chose MotoNova Finance every week to buy their next car, van or motorbike.

This is where you come in. We are on a journey. A journey defined by a destination; to deliver on our purpose.

Still curious?

Join us and we’ll make the same promises to you as a colleague, as we do to each of our customers. We’re committed to building a working environment that values respect, diversity, and compassion. We welcome people regardless of age, disability, gender identity, marital status, race, faith or belief, sexual orientation, socioeconomic background, and whether you’re pregnant or on family leave.

Please note that we have a thorough referencing process, which includes criminal record checks.