Head of Learning & People Capability

Head of Learning & Leadership

Location: London or Birmingham or Edinburgh (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.