If you want to put your leadership and development skills to use, creating a pipeline of apprentices and graduates that support future skills gaps – you belong at Bromford.
As our talent and development manager, you will be the lead in understanding the future skills gaps and creating a robust workforce plan. From here you will develop a pipeline of apprentices and graduates to fill the future resourcing needs. Working as part of a small team, you will get involved with all aspects of the talent and development work plan from time to time. However, your primary focus will be our apprenticeship and graduate programmes.
Your base can be at any of our offices in Wolverhampton (WV10), Tewkesbury (GL20) or Chipping Sodbury (BS37).
You will have the opportunity to design a competitive graduate programme, liaising with relevant leaders in the business to ensure a quality programme is in place. You will have scope to embed brilliant learning programmes for graduates and apprenticeships; investing in these relationships so our colleagues can thrive. You will also proactively manage the apprenticeship levy fund to maximise the usage, report regularly and recommend government initiatives.
It’s an exciting time to be joining the colleague development team with ample opportunity in this role to shape learning pathways, ensuring Bromford is future-ready. We are looking for a real learning and development expert, who has experience of working with competency frameworks, knowledge of current learning trends and has shaped a training offering to enable a learning culture.
As our talent and development manager, we would like to see:
CIPD or ILM, desirable
Educated to degree level (or equivalent experience)
Have a postgraduate qualification in a related discipline (leadership, management, organisational behaviour, occupational psychology, coaching, organisational design, HR management, business studies), or demonstratable working experience
Certificate in Workforce Planning, desirable
Level 3 assessor course, desirable
Proven experience of working in a similar role, experience managing apprenticeship and, or graduate programmes
Experience of implementing successful succession planning, workforce planning, talent pipelining
Experience of designing and delivering frameworks for learning interventions that demonstrate a change in behaviour and improvement in performance
Evidence of developing and implementing competency frameworks, including the assessment, evaluation of capabilities
A flexible working attitude with time, travel and demonstrated reliability
Subject matter expertise and experience working in the area of apprentices and graduates
A confident communicator and presenter, able to influence at a senior level
Strong financial and reporting writing skills
UK driving licence and access to your own vehicle
Be able to complete a Basic DBS check
A commitment to our DNA and be a great ambassador for Bromford.If you have experience in positions such as talent and development manager, talent manager, apprenticeships manager, apprenticeship delivery manager, we would love to hear from you.
A place to be you!
Being able to express yourself at work helps you connect with people and gives you the freedom to perform better at your job. We believe diversity helps drive success, so we want to build a culture where all our differences are celebrated. Everybody should feel that they belong and are able to bring their true, authentic selves to work. We want an organisation that reflects the communities and the people that we serve and if we can achieve this, we know that we will create an environment where everyone is included and can thrive.
Closing date for applications is Sunday 6th December.
If this sounds like you, you’ll feel right at home here. At Bromford we give both customers and colleagues the opportunity to realise their potential. In our team you’ll do incredible work and be rewarded for doing so. Not just in the smiling faces of the thriving communities that you help build, but in the trust, support, training, success and friendship you’ll find in our team.
If you can be bold, be honest, be you and be brilliant… you belong at Bromford. Apply now.
In addition to a competitive salary, we will offer you a fantastic benefits package. This includes; 27 days holiday (plus statutory bank holidays); a choice of defined benefit and defined contribution pension schemes; trust-based flexible working, and a £500 personal allowance to spend on your choice of things like private medical cover, dental treatment and gym membership. to see the full list.
Bromford Housing Group is committed to recruiting with care and safeguarding employees and customers, as a result we will carry out pre-employment checks. The nature of these checks will vary according to the role applied for, and may include details of current/previous employment, unspent criminal convictions, education and proof of relevant qualifications. We will also be asking for references for everyone who is offered employment with us which must cover the last two years. In addition to this, all employees will be asked for evidence of their right to live and work in the UK – further information is available on the .
We do not require recruitment agency support at this time – all speculative CVs will be treated as a direct application
