Senior Manager - Learning and Development

Hargreaves Lansdown; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading investment platform in Bristol is seeking a Senior Manager of Learning & Development. This role involves leading a high-performance team to deliver effective learning solutions aligned with business goals. Applicants should have expertise in content creation and a strong understanding of skills-based workforce planning, along with excellent communication and leadership skills. The position offers a flexible hybrid working model and numerous benefits including enhanced parental leave, private medical insurance, and a discretionary bonus.

Benefits

Discretionary annual bonus

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Flexible working options

Enhanced parental leave

Private medical insurance

Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution

Wellbeing support and counseling services

Paid volunteering days annually

Qualifications

• Experience in leading a high-performing Learning and Development team.
• Successful in in-sourcing learning provision.
• Excellent communication skills to influence across multiple levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a team of L&D professionals.
• Own the operational delivery of learning and development.
• Collaborate with HR and business teams as a learning business partner.

Skills

Content curation and creation

Stakeholder engagement

Data literacy

Leadership

Education

Relevant professional qualifications (CIPD Level 5+)

Tools

Digital learning platforms

Learning Management Systems

Job description

Excited to grow your career? Our purpose is to make it easy for people to save and invest for a better future. We are looking for great people to join us, so please come and invest in YOUR future at Hargreaves Lansdown.

We know that sometimes people can be put off applying for a job if they don't tick every box. If you're excited about working for us and have most of the skills or experience we're looking for, please go ahead and apply. We’d love to hear from you!

About the role

Our Learning & Development team helps people build the skills they need to do great work and grow their careers. We focus on practical, relevant learning that supports HL’s goals and gives colleagues the confidence to adapt and succeed.

The Senior Manager of Learning & Development is responsible for leading the operational delivery and continuous improvement of HL’s skills strategy, delivered through a responsive and high-impact learning and development offering. The role ensures HL has the right capability in the right place to achieve its strategic goals, enabling a workforce of high-performing individuals.

This role is instrumental in ensuring HL attracts, engages and retains talented individuals who thrive in an environment where they can develop their careers. It manages the design, development, delivery and evaluation of learning resources and experiences, grounded in a deep understanding of HL’s business priorities. All learning provision is tailored to specific organisational needs, agile in its delivery, and aligned to strategic workforce planning.

A key focus of the role is to evolve the learning function by building internal capability in the assessment, creation and curation of learning content—reducing reliance on external providers and embedding a sustainable, scalable model for learning delivery.

The role also oversees the business-as-usual management of HL’s digital learning infrastructure, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and continuously evolve to meet the needs of the organisation.

What you’ll be doing

• Own the operational delivery of HL’s learning and development offer, ensuring it is responsive to business priorities and aligned with the organisation’s skills strategy
• Lead and manage a team of L&D professionals, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting career development and skills growth within the team
• Lead the transformation of the learning function, leading the in-sourcing of content creation and curation to reduce reliance on external providers and embed a sustainable delivery mode
• Lead the transition of HL to become a more ‘skills based’ organisation in the way we identify, develop and mobilise skills across the organisation
• Act as a learning ‘business partner’, collaborating with the Talent & Careers, DEI, HR and business area teams to ensure HL’s learning offer supports solving critical business needs
• Investigate, design, deliver and evaluate learning resources and experiences that are tailored to HL’s strategic workforce needs and grounded in a deep understanding of business context
• Critically evaluate the business-as-usual management of HL’s digital learning infrastructure, including the LMS and eLearning platforms, ensuring they remain fit for purpose and continuously evolve
• Use data and analytics to monitor learning effectiveness, generate insights and inform continuous improvement of the L&D offer
• Stay informed of external trends and innovations in learning, bringing fresh thinking into HL’s learning strategy and delivery

About you

You’ll ideally have experience of leading a high-performing Learning and Development team, with a passion for progressive transformation in how to diagnose, design and deliver training needs across an organisation.

Essential

• Expertise in content curation and creation, with a strong portfolio of internally developed learning resources across digital and blended formats
• Demonstrated success in in-sourcing learning provision, building internal capability and reducing reliance on external vendors
• Strong understanding of skills-based workforce planning, with experience in transitioning to a skills-based organisation
• Experience acting as a business partner and/or consultant, working with business functions to diagnose business issues
• Advanced data literacy, with the ability to use learning analytics to generate insights, measure impact and inform continuous improvement
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills, with the ability to influence across multiple levels and functions
• Experience leading and developing L&D teams, fostering a high-performance culture and supporting career growth

Desirable

• Experience in a regulated or complex organisational environment, preferably within financial services
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and their application in learning design and delivery
• Relevant professional qualifications (e.g. CIPD Level 5+, digital learning design, project management)

Interview process

This will be a two-stage process including competency questions and an assessment task.

Working Schedule

We are based in Bristol, BS1 5HL. This role is a permanent role and full time. For this role we offer a hybrid flexible working pattern to allow you the flexibility of working from home and coming into the office.

Why us?

Here at HL, we’re the UK’s number 1 investment platform for private investors, based in Bristol. For more than 40 years we’ve helped investors save time, tax and money on their investments.

To achieve our mission, we believe we have a workplace like no other, with constant learning, dynamic teams, and a great ethos. We're steered by core values that promote service, quality, innovation, and opportunity in everything we do.

What's on offer?

• Discretionary annual bonus * and annual pay review
• 25 days * holiday plus bank holidays and 1-day additional Christmas closure
• Option to purchase an additional 5 days holiday **
• Flexible working options available, including hybrid working
• Enhanced parental leave
• Pension scheme up to 11% employer contribution
• Income Protection and Life insurance (4 x salary core level of cover)
• Private medical insurance*
• Health care cash plans - including optical, dental, and out patient care
• Health screening programme
• Help@hand - confidential support including mental health counselling and remote GP
• Wellhub - unlimited access to fitness provider s and w ellness c oach sessions
• Variety of travel to work schemes with bike storage and shower facilities
• Inhouse barista and deli serving subsidised coffee and sandwiches
• T wo paid volunteering days per year

* dependant on role level

** only available to select during our annual benefits window, in November each year

Hargreaves Lansdown is an inclusive employer that values diversity in its workforce. We encourage applications from all individuals without regard to race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, disability or age.

This role may also be available on a flexible working or part time basis – please ask the Recruitment & Onboarding team for more information.

Please note, we are unable to provide employment sponsorship to candidates.