Leadership & Talent Specialist

Vodafone Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international telecommunications company is seeking a Leadership & Talent Specialist to manage and enhance leadership development initiatives. You will drive strategic programs, collaborate with internal stakeholders, and leverage data insights to refine solutions. The ideal candidate possesses expertise in human-centred design, facilitating training sessions, and data management. This role offers competitive benefits, including a yearly bonus and extensive leave options.

Benefits

Yearly bonus: 10%

Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays

Charity days: 5 days/year

Maternity leave: 52 weeks

Private medical and dental

Additional discounts on various services

Qualifications

• Experience in leading design and delivery of leadership and talent interventions.
• Skilled facilitator for training sessions and programs.
• Ability to work backwards from a vision to develop actionable solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead creation and implementation of leadership interventions.
• Partner with internal teams to enhance participant experiences.
• Measure program effectiveness and refine offerings.

Skills

Leadership development

Human-centred design

Data management and analysis

Video creation

Facilitated experience design

Tools

Power BI App

Learning Management System

Job description

Join Us

At Vodafone, we’re not just shaping the future of connectivity for our customers – we’re shaping the future for everyone who joins our team. When you work with us, you’re part of a global mission to connect people, solve complex challenges, and create a sustainable and more inclusive world. If you want to grow your career whilst finding the perfect balance between work and life, Vodafone offers the opportunities to help you belong and make a real impact.

What you’ll do

The Vodafone Leadership team is dedicated to designing and enabling the delivery of leadership development support across the Vodafone ecosystem. We believe in the pivotal role that leadership holds in driving Vodafone’s transformation and serving our purpose. Great leadership maximises the collective impact of our people, now and in the future.

We are trusted design partners for our Leaders, Learning and Performance Business Partner Community, HRDs and Senior Business Leaders, globally. By joining the Vodafone leadership team, you will play an active role in creating the future of Vodafone.

We are seeking to hire a Leadership & Talent Specialist to play an integral role in the team. The role of the Leadership & Talent Specialist is to manage the end-to-end design and delivery of leadership and talent interventions aligned to the Global Leadership Development Strategy, working in partnership with Leadership Consultants, and Learning and Performance Business Partners. It is also responsible for uncovering/implementing strategies to anticipate and respond to future leadership needs. The role encompasses both advisory and delivery aspects: consulting senior leaders on the leadership requirements necessary for executing Vodafone’s global and local business strategies and developing tailored solutions to meet those needs.

• Strategic Program Design and Delivery: Lead the creation and implementation of global leadership and talent interventions in alignment with the Leadership Development Strategy, partnering with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
• Human-Centred and Experience Design: Use design methodologies (e.g., 5Di) to address business challenges and create shared experiences—facilitated or leader-led—that engage leaders and improve performance.
• Digital and Campaign Design: Collaborate with the digital design team to develop performance support resources and impactful communicating and marketing campaigns that inspire local ownership and drive engagement with strategic priorities.
• Stakeholder Collaboration: Partner with HR, Internal Comms, business leaders, and market teams to co-create exceptional participant experiences and scalable delivery models.
• Delivery Enablement: Support market teams and facilitators to deliver centrally designed programs effectively, providing training and resources as needed.
• Vendor and Budget Management: Oversee vendors and manage budgets to ensure high-quality delivery and alignment with goals
• Impact and Improvement: Measure program effectiveness, leveraging insights to continuously refine offerings and maximise impact.
• Best Practices and Innovation: Identify global best practices and leverage resources to drive innovation and consistency across markets.
• Specific projects may include: Licence to Coach, Gen AI Leadership Development, Leadership Toolkit resource creation, Leads Leaders design, defining Director accountabilities, GTM for all products for VLO Summit, core curriculum measurements and ongoing improvement.

Who you are

• Expertise of fully blended leadership development including:
• Skilled in Human-centred design (e.g., 5Di): analysing and defining business problems, discovering audience needs, and designing solutions to shift behaviour and enable measurable performance improvement
• The ability to work backwards from a bold vision of the ideal solution (that doesn’t exist yet) to work out how it can be created, through rapid prototyping, testing and iterating based on user feedback and business impact
• Experience in driving measurable culture change through bold and / or very simple solutions: e.g.,
• Creation of elegantly simple resources (e.g., checklists, one-pagers, user guides) that enable and guide high performance
• Facilitated experience design (e.g., simulations, role-play, story/scene writing)
• Video creation (using video creation software for video and audio editing)
• Skilled facilitator both to deliver train the trainer sessions and end programmes
• Data management and analysis (e.g. to understand business requirements, to track participant data, measures of success) using software such as Power BI App etc.
• Knowledge of Success Factors/Learning Management System (LMS) to ensure the system supports the learning interventions (e.g. capturing learning hours)
• Language skills: fluent in English

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about empowering people and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to still apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another opportunity.

What’s in it for you

• Yearly bonus: 10%
• Annual leave: 28 days + bank holidays + the opportunity to buy/sell/carry over 5 days/year
• Charity days: 5 days/year
• Maternity leave: 52 weeks: the first 13 weeks are fully paid, followed by 26 weeks of half pay
• Private pension: You can contribute up to 5% of your basic pay with 2:1 matching from Vodafone up to 10%.
• Access to: private medical, private dental, free health assessments, share save scheme
• Additional discounts: Vodafone retail, gym, cinema, cycle to work, season ticket loan

Who we are

We are a leading international Telco, serving millions of customers. At Vodafone, we believe that connectivity is a force for good. If we use it for the things that really matter, it can improve people\'s lives and the world around us. Through our technology we empower people, connecting everyone regardless of who they are or where they live and we protect the planet, whilst helping our customers do the same.

Belonging at Vodafone isn’t a concept; it’s lived, breathed, and cultivated through everything we do. You\'ll be part of a global and diverse community, with many different minds, abilities, backgrounds and cultures. We’re committed to increase diversity, ensure equal representation, and make Vodafone a place everyone feels safe, valued and included.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, please refer to the following guidance: the URL for guidance is the careers page at careers.vodafone.com/application-adjustments/.

Together we can.