Corporate Learning Director

3 weeks ago


Manchester, United Kingdom City Football Group Full time
Unlocking Future Growth: A Strategic Role for the Head of Learning

The City Football Group is seeking an exceptional individual to drive its learning and development strategy across all CFG Clubs and Business Functions. As a strategic partner, the Head of Learning will collaborate with Leadership Team members and People Business Partners to diagnose, develop, and embed core capabilities that fuel the organisation's growth.

About Us

City Football Group, established in 2013, is the world's leading private owner and operator of football clubs, with total or partial ownership of twelve clubs globally. We invest in football-related businesses and serve as a global commercial platform for partners, while empowering better lives through football on a local and global scale.

Job Description

The successful candidate will implement a best-in-class learning and development programme across CFG Clubs and Business Functions. Key responsibilities include:

  1. Designing and implementing effective learning solutions to develop core capabilities across the organisation.
  2. Partnering with senior stakeholders and People Business Partners to identify gaps and risks to the organisation, developing strategic functional learning roadmaps to build skills and capability.
  3. Ownership of the digital learning estate, enhancing reach, and evidencing impact through innovative technological solutions.
  4. Developing robust business cases for learning and development initiatives, measuring ROI, and ensuring embedding of learning and effectiveness of courses delivered by suppliers.
  5. Identifying areas where Apprenticeship pathways can enhance our development proposition and build core skills into areas of business growth.
Requirements

To succeed in this role, you must have:

  • Experience operating in a matrix environment, partnering with senior stakeholders, ideally with a global customer base.
  • Experience conducting functional learning and development needs analysis to assess capability levels at a macro level.
  • Expert interpersonal and influential skills, with the ability to adapt communication preference dependent on audience and situation.
  • Strong analytical, process, and problem-solving skills, including end-to-end and critical thinking.
  • Experience in programme managing multiple projects across various geographies and stakeholders.
  • Use of data and analytics to inform business cases that influence decision-making at a senior level.
What We Offer

In return for your expertise, we offer a highly competitive salary of $120,000 per annum, plus additional benefits, including 26 days annual leave, private healthcare, and a simply health cash plan, annual discretionary bonus, and partnership and lifestyle discounts.

This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic organisation that empowers better lives through football. If you are passionate about driving organisational growth and development, please apply now.



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