People Development Coordinator

Quilter; Southampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday 26 days

Pension Scheme

Healthcare Cash Plan

Benefit Allowance

Incentive Scheme

Job summary

Quilter is seeking a detail‑driven People Development Coordinator to join our HR team in Southampton on a 12‑month fixed term contract. You will coordinate learning programmes, support onboarding, manage learner communications and maintain accurate records across Workday Learning and related platforms.

You will partner with learning providers, help deliver priority development initiatives and report on governance information, contributing to a positive colleague experience and a high‑performing

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a Learning & Development Coordinator, Learning Administrator, People Development Coordinator or similar role.
• Experience coordinating learning programmes, workshops, learner communications and programme logistics.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain high levels of accuracy.
• Experience producing reports and maintaining data across learning or people systems.
• Experience using Learning Management Systems (LMS) or learning technologies. Experience of Workday Learning, Sana, Degreed or similar platforms would be beneficial.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate the day-to-day administration of learning programmes, events and workshops across leadership, culture, skills, early careers and mandatory learning.
• Manage invitations, registrations, attendance tracking, evaluations and learner communications.
• Act as a first point of contact for learning-related enquiries, providing a helpful and efficient service to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Maintain programme documentation, learner records and operational processes.
• Support onboarding, induction and priority learning initiatives, helping ensure a positive colleague experience.
• Provide operational support for Workday Learning, Sana and related learning technologies.
• Coordinate content publishing, maintenance and review activity across learning platforms.
• Support subject matter experts with administration, guidance and agreed content updates.
• Assist with maintenance of learning assets, learning pathways and resource libraries.
• Escalate technology issues appropriately and support testing and user adoption activities.
• Coordinate people development activities, ensuring information and documentation are accurate and up to date.
• Manage Early Careers rotations, cohort development activity and ongoing programme administration.
• Coordinate intern and manager engagement to support a consistent, high-quality programme experience.
• Support administration of Skills & Growth Levy funded programmes and apprenticeships.
• Maintain relationships with learning providers and support learner onboarding and progress tracking.
• Coordinate capability and talent reporting activities and support preparation of governance information.
• Help maintain records that support workforce capability and skills development activity.
• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve ways of working.
• Maintain operational standards, process documentation and colleague guidance.
• Support culture, leadership and change initiatives through event coordination, communications, stakeholder administration and programme logistics.
• Help ensure specialist colleagues can focus on strategic and advisory work by providing effective operational support.

Skills

Learning & Development Coordination

Learning Administration

Programme logistics

Stakeholder management

MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Teams)

Data reporting

Tools

Workday Learning

Sana

Degreed

Job description

About The Business

Quilter plc is a leading wealth management business, helping to enable brighter financial futures for every generation. Quilter oversees £157.4 billion in customer investments (as of August 2026). It has an adviser and customer offering spanning financial advice, investment platforms, multi-asset investment solutions, and discretionary fund management. The business is comprised of two segments: Affluent and High Net Worth. Affluent encompasses the financial planning business, Quilter Financial Planning, the Quilter Investment Platform and Quilter Investors, the multi-asset investment solutions business. High Net Worth includes the discretionary fund management business, Quilter Cheviot, together with Quilter Cheviot Financial Planning – offering a highly personalised service to private clients, charities, trustees, and professional partners. Quilter Cheviot has presence throughout the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands. At Quilter we never stand still. Our foundations are rooted in our extraordinary expertise, which is trusted by hundreds of thousands of customers, but we have great ambitions to stay one step ahead and make an even greater difference to the people and communities we serve, including our colleagues. Our business is transforming, continually modernising, and becoming even more customer centric. So, if you want to be bold in the pursuit of your ambitions, bring new ideas, and challenge and evolve what we do, it’s the perfect time to join us!

About The Role

Level: 3
Department: HR
Location: Southampton, United Kingdom (with some travel to London / other Quilter offices as required)
Contract Type: Fixed Term Contract
Contract Length: 12 months
Regulated/Non-Regulated: Non-Regulated
Quilter is creating new ways for colleagues to build skills, develop their careers and adapt to changing ways of working. As a People Development Coordinator, you will play a critical role in supporting the delivery of Quilter's people development agenda. You will provide operational and administrative support across learning, leadership, culture, capability, skills and early careers activities, ensuring programmes, systems and processes are well organised and colleagues receive a high-quality experience.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone who enjoys organising, coordinating and improving processes while developing a broad understanding of learning, talent and capability development within a large organisation. You will help enable the successful delivery of priority programmes that support Quilter's culture, leadership, workforce capability and AI transformation ambitions.

Learning operations and programme coordination

• Coordinate the day-to-day administration of learning programmes, events and workshops across leadership, culture, skills, early careers and mandatory learning.
• Manage invitations, registrations, attendance tracking, evaluations and learner communications.
• Act as a first point of contact for learning-related enquiries, providing a helpful and efficient service to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Maintain programme documentation, learner records and operational processes.
• Support onboarding, induction and priority learning initiatives, helping ensure a positive colleague experience.

Support Learning Technology And Digital Learning Experiences

• Provide operational support for Workday Learning, Sana and related learning technologies.
• Coordinate content publishing, maintenance and review activity across learning platforms.
• Support subject matter experts with administration, guidance and agreed content updates.
• Assist with maintenance of learning assets, learning pathways and resource libraries.
• Escalate technology issues appropriately and support testing and user adoption activities.

Support people development programmes and processes

• Coordinate people development activities, ensuring information and documentation are accurate and up to date.
• Manage Early Careers rotations, cohort development activity and ongoing programme administration.
• Coordinate intern and manager engagement to support a consistent, high-quality programme experience.
• Support administration of Skills & Growth Levy funded programmes and apprenticeships.
• Maintain relationships with learning providers and support learner onboarding and progress tracking.
• Coordinate capability and talent reporting activities and support preparation of governance information.
• Help maintain records that support workforce capability and skills development activity.

Enable efficient and effective delivery

• Identify opportunities to simplify processes and improve ways of working.
• Maintain operational standards, process documentation and colleague guidance.
• Support culture, leadership and change initiatives through event coordination, communications, stakeholder administration and programme logistics.
• Help ensure specialist colleagues can focus on strategic and advisory work by providing effective operational support.

About You

You are an organised learning and development professional who enjoys coordinating programmes, managing operational processes and creating a positive colleague experience. You have experience supporting learning, development or people programmes and are comfortable working with learning technologies, data and multiple stakeholders. You take pride in ensuring programmes run smoothly, information is accurate and colleagues receive excellent support throughout their development journey.

Skills And Experience

• Previous experience in a Learning & Development Coordinator, Learning Administrator, People Development Coordinator or similar role.
• Experience coordinating learning programmes, workshops, learner communications and programme logistics.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities and maintain high levels of accuracy.
• Experience producing reports and maintaining data across learning or people systems.
• Experience using Learning Management Systems (LMS) or learning technologies. Experience of Workday Learning, Sana, Degreed or similar platforms would be beneficial.
• Strong customer service and stakeholder management skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office, particularly Excel, PowerPoint and Teams.
• Experience supporting talent, apprenticeship, skills or early careers activity would be advantageous.

Inclusion & Diversity

We value diversity and strive to promote inclusivity in all aspects of our culture. We believe in equal opportunities for all, ensuring that no applicant encounters less favourable treatment based on anything but their skills, qualifications, experience, and potential. We celebrate the unique contributions of a diverse workforce and create a respectful, nurturing environment where every colleague can thrive.

Values

• Do the right thing: We act with integrity and are proudly committed to going above and beyond in service of our clients and the support we provide our communities.
• Always curious: We continuously seek new ideas and knowledge so we’re one step ahead of our clients’ needs. We look for inspiration everywhere and encourage experimentation, recognising that this is how we create brilliant solutions for brighter futures.
• Embrace challenge: We aim high to transform our potential into meaningful outcomes. With ambition as our driving force and a steadfast commitment to growth, we succeed for the good of every generation.
• Stronger together: Combining our diverse talents, we accomplish more collectively than we ever could do alone. We speak openly, actively listen, and support each other, and constructively challenge and embrace new ideas. We seek empowerment and demonstrate ownership and trust, with the confidence to make impactful decisions.

Core Benefits

• Holiday: 182 hours (26 days)
• Quilter Incentive Scheme: All employees are eligible to participate in incentive scheme, to incentivise business performance and their contribution.
• Pension Scheme: A non-contributory company pension scheme that can be boosted through personal contributions.
• Healthcare Cash Plan: Jersey employees only.
• Benefit Allowance: A cash benefit allowance is payable in lieu of some of our core benefits.

In addition to our core benefits, we offer a range of flexible benefits to UK employees that you can choose from and pay for conveniently via a salary deduction.