Job Description
Head of Learning & Leadership
Location: Edinburgh or Birmingham or London (Hybrid)
Sector: Life & Pensions
Salary: Competitive + excellent benefits
The Opportunity
We are partnering with a leading Life & Pensions organisation to recruit a Head of Learning & Leadership. This is a high-impact, strategic role responsible for shaping the organisation's approach to leadership, learning, and coaching, driving capability across the business.
You'll play a pivotal role in designing and delivering a modern, scalable learning ecosystem, working closely with senior talent leaders to enable sustainable growth, strengthen leadership capability, and enhance organisational performance.
The Role
As Head of Learning & Leadership, you will:
* Define and deliver the organisation-wide learning and leadership strategy
* Partner with Heads of Talent to design impactful learning, leadership and talent interventions
* Lead and develop a specialist internal team covering talent, performance, and E-learning
* Build and manage relationships with high-quality third-party providers to deliver best-in-class solutions
* Oversee robust talent assessment practices, performance management frameworks, and talent reporting
* Own and evolve a modern, seamless mandatory learning and E-learning suite
* Manage the central training budget, ensuring effective allocation and measurable ROI
* Embed innovative, technology-driven learning solutions, enabling an "always-on", self-serve learning culture
* Establish partnerships with leading external organisations to enhance leadership development opportunities
* Measure and report on the impact and outcomes of learning initiatives, ensuring alignment with DEI objectives
What We're Looking For
We're looking for a strategic, credible learning leader who brings:
* Proven experience delivering end-to-end learning strategies
* Strong track record of leading and developing learning teams
* Experience across both learning and leadership development functions
* Demonstrable budget management capability
* Expertise in managing and optimising third-party learning providers
* A recognised Learning & Development practitioner background
* Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence at senior level
* A passion for innovation, leveraging technology to scale learning solutions
Why Apply?
* Opportunity to shape learning and leadership at scale within a market-leading organisation
* High visibility role with senior stakeholder engagement
* A chance to build innovative, future-ready learning ecosystems
* Competitive salary and excellent benefits package
* Hybrid working from Edinburgh
Guidant, Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.