Job Title
Skills Proposition Lead
Closing Date
Monday 20 April 2026
Salary
£78,098 - £91,880
Location
Bristol, Halifax, Edinburgh or Leeds
Working Pattern
Full time. Hybrid: at least two days per week (or 40% of time) at one of our office sites.
Flexible Working Options
Job Share
About The Opportunity
Our purpose is to create an organisation fit for the future, set up with the right people, the right skills, and organised in the most efficient and effective way to deliver our transformation. This role invites you to own the Group skills vision, strategy and framework, inspiring the organisation to become agile and skill‑driven.
You’ll be responsible for:
* Setting and maintaining the Group skills vision, strategy and framework, informed by external best practice and future insights; aligning senior stakeholders to a clear, future‑focused direction.
* Defining, maintaining and embedding a future‑focused skills taxonomy and AI‑aligned job architecture, informing organisation design in partnership with the Organisation Effectiveness team and People Directors/Partners.
* Owning the Group development proposition and colleague experience, stewarding and creating impact through our “Growth Without Limits” employee value proposition.
* Defining and deploying compelling, impactful skilling propositions that address strategic capability gaps and create mobility and talent density.
* Leading engagement with recognised unions via the Skills Council, collaborating on upskilling efforts including through our Skills Champions.
* Determining the Group’s intentional learning culture and metrics that evidence progress; holding leaders to account for impact.
* Defining the skills development experience and technology/infrastructure to enable it.
* Activating skills at scale through campaigns, nudges, and personalised pathways including through our Skills Academies.
* Working with the People Data Hub team to establish and leverage a robust skills “data lake” to inform SWP, power colleague journeys, and address proficiency gaps.
* Identifying and leveraging a range of metrics/indicators to determine skills development proposition impact and operational efficiency; championing the reskilling proposition, optimising future role opportunities across the Group.
* Selecting and optimising core 3rd‑party content providers; driving utilisation and roadmap alignment.
* Adopting and embedding agile ways of working to accelerate delivery and impact.
What You’ll Need
* Strategic influencing: shapes and challenges organisational thinking by positioning skills as a critical lever for success.
* Skills development: designs and delivers solutions that build skills across a colleague’s full career journey.
* Commercial judgement: turns internal and external information into clear, actionable insight.
* Creative thinking: spots opportunities to simplify, automate, and modernise through experimentation, external insight and competitor awareness.
* Data‑driven decision making: interprets data, translates it into insight, and applies it confidently in day‑to‑day decisions.
Benefits
* A generous pension contribution of up to 15%
* An annual performance‑related bonus
* Share schemes including free shares
* Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, such as discounted shopping
* 30 days’ holiday, plus bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Equal Opportunity Employer
We offer reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the customers and communities we serve. We guarantee interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the role with a disability, long‑term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
Application Process
We keep your data safe. We request confidential or sensitive information only after a formal invitation to interview or an acceptance of a verbal offer. If you have any required adjustments throughout the recruitment process, please let us know.
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