Head of Talent Development and Learning

Overview

As Head of Talent Development and Learning, you will lead an enterprise-wide capability-building program to deliver leadership, professional, and technical skills aligned with Kainos’ strategy. You’ll partner with senior leaders to shape a scalable learning ecosystem, boosting leadership effectiveness and talent pipelines across a global business. Your work focuses on measurable learning impact, governance, and the responsible adoption of innovative approaches like AI. This is a strategic, collaborative role with a strong people-first culture at its core.

Responsibilities

• Shape and execute the enterprise Talent Development and Learning strategy and roadmap
• Analyse learning needs, skills data and feedback to define the 70:20:10 approach and curriculum
• Design, deliver and evaluate scalable leadership, management and professional development programmes
• Partner with senior leaders to enhance leadership effectiveness, team performance and coaching capability
• Use data to assess and report on learning/talent programme impact, ROI and business performance
• Lead the evolution of the learning ecosystem, governance, technologies, content, external partners and investment priorities
• Identify and develop future leaders and critical talent to meet current and future needs
• Lead strategic initiatives including responsible adoption of AI and other innovative technologies
• Support development of learning and skills frameworks tied to organisational needs
• Bring external thought leadership on talent and learning to continuously improve
• Lead and develop the Talent Development and Learning team with clear priorities
• Manage budgets, suppliers, tools and partner relationships, prioritising investments by business value

Key requirements

• Significant experience in talent, management, leadership and learning development in an enterprise context
• Ability to translate business strategy and workforce needs into talent and learning priorities
• Experience leading high-performing teams and driving innovation and accountability
• Experience influencing senior leaders and building alignment across a complex organisation
• Proven design and implementation of scalable talent/leadership/learning solutions with measurable outcomes
• Experience using data to evaluate impact and ROI of learning solutions
• Strong commercial acumen, budget and external partner management
• Excellent communication, facilitation, coaching and stakeholder relationship skills
• Solid understanding of blended/digital learning, learning technologies and AI-enabled approaches
• Degree-level qualification, professional qualification or equivalent experience

• strong communication and facilitation
• coaching and relationship-building
• influence and stakeholder management
• learning technologies
• digital content
• AI-enabled learning approaches

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