Talent Development Lead

United Infrastructure; England; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A growing organization in the UK is seeking a professional to enhance talent development and succession planning. This role involves designing effective career pathways and skills frameworks that align with business needs. You'll work collaboratively with various stakeholders to ensure that learning programs meet development expectations. Ideal candidates will have practical experience in L&D and a strong understanding of how progression and workforce planning intersect. This position offers an opportunity to impact long-term capability and retention.

Qualifications

• Experience in talent development or L&D.
• Practical experience in designing career frameworks.
• Understanding of learning and workforce planning.

Responsibilities

• Design clear career pathways across job families.
• Coordinate data-driven succession planning for roles.
• Develop skills frameworks aligned with job architecture.
• Evaluate learning effectiveness through feedback.

Skills

Talent development

Organisational capability

Skills frameworks

Succession planning

Stakeholder collaboration

Job description

United Infrastructure is a growing organisation with a broad and diverse workforce, operating across multiple pillars and disciplines. As the business continues to evolve, there is a real opportunity to further strengthen how people develop, progress and build their careers here.

You’ll focus on building and embedding career pathways, succession planning and skills frameworks that support long-term capability, retention and internal progression. Working with our People Business Partners, and our in-house training provider, you’ll ensure development activity is well‑directed, aligned to business needs and clearly connected to progression.

This is a role for someone who enjoys designing frameworks, joining the dots and making development practical, rather than delivering courses day to day.

Job Description

Design clear, accessible career pathways across key job families

Define progression criteria and development expectations at each level

Support managers and employees in understanding how roles, skills and progression fit together

Succession Planning

Coordinate and maintain data driven succession planning for critical roles

Support leaders in identifying talent, development needs and future capability gaps

Ensure succession planning outputs translate into meaningful development actions

Skills & Capability Frameworks

Develop skills frameworks that set out the technical and behavioural skills required at different levels

Ensure frameworks are practical, easy to use and aligned to job architecture

Use skills data to inform development priorities and workforce planning

Learning & Development Alignment

Work closely with the internal training provider to ensure learning programmes align to skills frameworks and career pathways

Translate business and capability needs into clear development requirements

Evaluate learning effectiveness through feedback, uptake and impact — not just attendance

Partner with HR, Talent, and business stakeholders to embed development practices

Continuously review and improve frameworks as the organisation grows and evolves

Support a consistent, fair and transparent approach to development across the business

Qualifications

You’ll likely have:

Experience in talent development, L&D, or organisational capability

Practical experience designing or maintaining career frameworks, skills frameworks or succession plans

An understanding of how learning, progression and workforce planning fit together

A collaborative, pragmatic approach and the confidence to work with a range of stakeholders

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