Talent Learning & Development Manager

Katie Bard (Angela Mortimer Plc); Birmingham; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Katie Bard is recruiting a Talent, Learning & Development Manager in a hybrid role offering a salary of £50,000–£55,000. You will map the organization’s skills, develop competency frameworks and lead learning programmes that support progression and succession planning.

You will work with managers across the business, designing development actions, mentoring and workshops while ensuring training aligns with strategic needs and data-driven outcomes.

Qualifications

• Substantial experience in talent or learning and development, including building performance or competency frameworks.
• Experience delivering blended learning.
• Ability to work with managers to translate needs into practical learning priorities.

Responsibilities

• Develop competency frameworks and a skills bank to map capabilities and gaps.
• Strengthen performance and development processes including probation reviews and PDPs.
• Identify future skills needs and translate them into practical learning priorities.
• Design and deliver technical, professional and leadership development through workshops, digital learning and mentoring.
• Create career pathways to support progression, mobility and succession planning.
• Coordinate apprenticeships, professional qualifications and external training providers.
• Manage the learning system and mandatory training records; measure impact with data and outcomes.

Skills

Competency frameworks

Learning & development

Workshop facilitation

Data-driven decisions

Mentoring & coaching

Education

Relevant degree or equivalent

Tools

Learning management system

Job description

Talent, Learning & Development Manager

Hybrid £50,000-£55,000

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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