Talent Learning & Development Manager

Katie Bard; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Katie Bard is seeking a Talent, Learning & Development Manager to help map current capabilities, identify future skills and design pathways for people development.

You will lead competency frameworks, strengthen performance processes, design blended learning, and partner with managers to translate needs into practical priorities. Experience with apprenticeships and succession planning is valuable; you will measure impact using data and outcomes.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in talent or learning and development.
• Experience building performance or competency frameworks.
• Ability to translate business needs into training priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop competency frameworks and a skills bank.
• Strengthen performance and development processes.
• Identify future skills needs with managers and translate into priorities.
• Design and deliver technical, professional and leadership development.
• Create career pathways and coordinate apprenticeships and external training.

Skills

Competency framework development

Workshop facilitation

Learning analytics

Stakeholder management

Tools

Learning Management System (LMS)

Job description

We are recruiting a Talent, Learning & Development Manager to help an organisation understand the skills it has, the skills it will need and how its people can develop to meet that need.

Reporting to the Head of HR, you will work closely with managers across the business. This is a hands-on role with responsibility for both the structure behind talent development and the programmes employees experience day to day.

This highly diverse role will entail:

• Developing competency frameworks and a skills bank to give the business a clearer view of its capabilities and gaps.
• Strengthening performance and development processes, including probation reviews, one-to-ones and individual development plans.
• Working with managers to identify future skills needs and translate them into practical learning priorities.
• Designing and delivering technical, professional and leadership development through workshops, digital learning, mentoring and learning on the job.
• Creating career pathways that support progression, internal mobility and succession planning.
• Coordinating apprenticeships, professional qualifications and external training providers.
• Managing the learning system and mandatory training records, and measuring the impact of development through feedback, skills data and business outcomes.

Applicants will have substantial experience in talent or learning and development, including building performance or competency frameworks and delivering blended learning. You will know how to work with managers to get beneath a training request, understand the capability issue and agree what will help.

Applicants will also be confident facilitating workshops, using workforce data and showing whether an initiative has made a difference. Experience with apprenticeships and succession planning would be valuable.

For someone who enjoys giving people a clearer path to progress while helping a business prepare for what comes next, this is a role with plenty to get your teeth into.

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