General information
City/town:
London, Watford
Job field:
Business Support and IT
External closing date:
Friday, October 3, 2025
Type of contract:
Permanent
ID:
5514
Description and requirements
As the L&D Manager you will deliver learning and development initiatives that drive talent development, employee competencies and organisational performance. To partner with Operating Unit leadership, project directors and line managers to embed a culture of continuous learning and development aligned with Skanska's values.
What you'll do:
* Lead the development and implementation of learning and development initiatives aligned with the Building Services operating unit and 'one Skanska' philosophy
* Collaborate with senior leadership and project teams to identify skill gaps, future talent needs, and critical capability requirements.
* Deliver and evaluate learning interventions that enhance technical skills and leadership capabilities across the operating units (e.g. line manager training, team building).
* Design and deliver local interventions where required, collaborating with BU learning professionals to adopt and adapt existing content
* Partner with a BU Capability area to identify and address competency gaps using learning needs analysis
* Build and maintain strong relationships with OU leadership, project directors, HRBPs, line managers, as well as L&D Managers in other operating units and the central HR function, to ensure L&D initiatives meet evolving business needs.
* Support the OU quarterly Talent Review process and demonstrate tangible outputs in relation to the development of OULT successors.
* Monitor and track employee completion of mandatory training programs to ensure compliance with organisational and regulatory requirements
* Partner with Project team to create learning and development budget and required spend for compliance training and development interventions
* Provide data reporting as required to stakeholders
What you'll bring to the role:
* An ability to build relationships with stakeholders, coach line managers, and influence senior leaders.
* Ability to role model Skanska's values.
* Experience in leading learning and development initiatives in a complex, project-based environment
* Experience of key L&D functions including training facilitation; succession planning; learning needs analysis.
* Data and reporting
Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.
Flexible working
We welcome you to ask about flexibility at interview stage and we will explore what is possible for the role.
Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us using or call – Option 5 & 1, if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.
More information about the role
Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska. For a full role profile, please contact us:
Closing date
The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.
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