Job Details
Job Title: Senior Skills Development Partner – Technology & Data
Location(s): Bristol, Halifax, Edinburgh or Leeds
Salary: £78,098 – £101,068
Hours: Full time
Working Pattern: Hybrid – minimum 2 days per week (40% of time) at an office.
Job Description Summary
Our purpose is to create an organisation that is always fit for today and ready for the future. By ensuring we have the right people with the right skills at the right time, organised in the most efficient and effective way, we can build organisational confidence that we’re ready to deliver our strategy, no matter what.
We’re on a journey to becoming an agile, skills‑based organisation where colleagues understand the skills they need for today and for the future and where there is an expectation that they will invest in their own personal growth and development.
The Senior Skills Development Partner for Tech & Data is a pivotal role. The role-holder works in close partnership with the Executive Sponsor, Job Family leads and Executives across the Group to assess, shape and determine Skills priorities, informed by domain expertise and market intelligence. The role-holder will draw upon the wider Group propositions, taxonomy and skills intelligence engine, to deliver measurable uplifts in proficiency and business outcomes.
This isn’t just another Learning & Development role; this is about activating Skills as the currency that drives organisational agility, capacity, capability and new ways of working, ensuring that we remain future fit at all times.
Responsibilities
* Creating the Tech & Data Skills vision, strategy and framework, providing a “north star” that looks systemically beyond learning to wider capability levers (work design, talent, tech, culture).
* Using deep domain expertise and experience to bring ‘next practice’ strategies to identify and address skills gaps.
* Activating and embedding the proposition – campaigns, marketing and adoption tactics; optimising the Tech & Data Skills Academies in Viva Learning and driving personalised pathways and recommendations.
* Leveraging the Skills architecture & intelligence (taxonomy, assessment, skills capture, dashboards) to inform Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP), measure proficiency and power colleague experience.
* Collaborating with the Group Skills Proposition Lead to identify where 3rd‑party content providers may be required to address specific skills gaps.
* Optimising the Skills tech/tooling to create modern, multi‑modal learning experiences at pace.
Qualifications & Skills Required
* Strategic influencing: shaping and challenging organisational thinking by positioning skills as a critical lever for organisational success.
* Skills Development: designing and delivering a skills vision, strategy, framework and interventions.
* Commercial judgement: turning internal and external information into clear, actionable insight.
* Creative thinking: spotting opportunities to simplify, automate and modernise through competitor awareness and external insight.
* Data‑driven decision making: interpreting data, translating it into insight and applying it confidently.
* Agile understanding: operating effectively in an Agile way of working.
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, with bank holidays on top
* A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies
Diversity & Inclusion
Our ambition is to be the leading UK business for diversity, equity and inclusion supporting our customers, colleagues and communities. We’re committed to creating an environment in which everyone can thrive, learn and develop. We were one of the first major organisations to set goals on diversity in senior roles and offer dedicated initiatives such as a menopause health package and a Working with Cancer initiative. We also provide reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities.
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