Head of Talent & Learning

Reporting directly to the People Experience Director you will be responsible for designing, implementing and over-seeing comprehensive programmes aimed at nurturing talent, enhancing colleague skills and building our leadership culture across the organisation.
About You
You will be an accomplished and passionate Talent leader, with a natural inclination towards joining an organisation that prefers to move at pace and loves to develop talent from within. Energised and inspired by the opportunity to have a real impact, you'll love the idea of stepping into a role with plenty to build and create.
Naturally, you will have a breadth of experience across the Talent spectrum, ideally encompassing Talent Development, Learning, Leadership, Performance and Early Careers. An established leader in this space, you will bring the requisite knowledge and impact to influence colleagues from across the business and supercharge our efforts across the Talent agenda.
Qualifications
You'll be a strategy-shaping, inclusivity-championing, Talent superstar, with all the energy and positivity needed to drive forwards this critical agenda in a totally brilliant business.
You'll focus your time on:
Collaborating across the business to define and refine the learning development & talent strategy, ensuring this is cohesively aligned to the easyJet corporate strategy
Identifying emerging trends and best practices in talent, learning, early careers and leadership development to inform strategic decision making
Building and evolving the overall leadership development offer, ensuring our leaders are equipped with the capabilities needed for today and the future
Developing and implementing impactful learning programmes and development initiatives tailored to all employee levels and skills requirements
Day-to-day management of the Learning, Early Careers and Leadership COE, ensuring seamless delivery of programs and services
Ownership of the easyJet LMS and the digital learning experience for colleagues
Monitoring KPIs and metrics to assess the effectiveness and impact of learning initiatives, then making data driven improvements
Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards in all learning and development activities
Oversee the overall talent approach, ensuring we have full and diverse talent pipelines at all levels, and robust succession plans
Leading the senior leadership succession planning approach
Leading & overseeing the Performance Management framework & annual cycle
Overseeing the design and execution of early careers programmes including work experience, graduate schemes and apprenticeships
Leading a team of L&D and Early Careers SMEs, ensuring resources are aligned to areas of strategic need (circa 4-5 colleagues)

A track record of defining, designing and delivery in the Talent space
Passion for Diversity and Inclusion, understanding the importance of reflecting this in our learning offer.
High commercial acumen, able to build relevant, accessible programmes relevant for the business.
Innovative and change-driven, with a broad external network & knowledge of best external practise in other leading organisations.
An expert relationship builder, able to build credible relationships with all levels of the organisation.
Strong influencing and collaboration skills
Strong understanding of Early Careers and how to optimise the apprenticeship levy
Understanding & experience of working in a European, operational business as well as a unionised environment is desirable but not essential.
Undeniably strong people/team leadership capabilities

Head of Talent & Learning
The role will be required at our Luton Airport office 60% of the month according to our hybrid working policy.
This role will be open until Friday 3rd January at 9am and your application will be reviewed after this point.
About Us
We are easyJet - a FTSE-100 listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you're reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you'll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe.
We fly more than 1,000 routes, connecting 35 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We're on a mission to make low-cost travel easy - and whatever your role here, you'll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe's best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.
It takes a real team effort to run an operation as big and logistically complex as ours - and regardless of where you join us, no one day will ever be the same. One thing that does stay the same though is our people. They are energised, positive, inclusive, united by purpose, ready to meet problems head-on, and they have your back. We're here to win together. We call that our 'Orange Spirit'. It's what makes our teams fun to be a part of and what brings us together.
An Outstanding Opportunity
As we embark upon our next phase of growth and success, easyJet are now seeking a Head of Talent & Learning to take our Talent, Learning, Leadership, Performance and Early Careers agenda to new heights!