Skills & Capability Manager, London

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The Opportunity

This could be the role you’ve always wanted A brand-new opportunity awaits you as an experienced Skills and Capability Manager. This sits within our Chief People Officers team and your role would be to develop and deliver a skills strategy for EDF Renewables UK&I. Providing a skills anchor across the whole organisation, supporting external communications / promotions / Talent Acquisition and Learning & Development. In essence you’ll be leading the way for our skills approach.

We require someone who is already doing this role in a corporate environment, ideally in the renewables space. We are looking for someone who can operate with ambiguity, ruthlessly prioritise, executing to a high standard. You would be expected to lead on a newly created focus area for our business, identify trends and insights and develop solutions that truly set us up with the skills and capabilities to support our ambitious and exciting growth agenda.

Being part of our journey requires you to be able to operate strategically, whilst rolling your sleeves up and getting stuck in and you’ll be rewarded with some of the most competitive benefits in the industry.

Pay, benefits and culture

If you’re looking to join a company where you can work hard, have fun, and help to create a Net Zero future – then you’re in the right place’

Our passion for embracing new ideas and being open-minded to change helps us continue to grow successfully.

We’re committed to helping all of our people thrive during their time with us, recognising and rewarding every person for their hard work and commitment.

Alongside a competitive salary, bonus, and market-leading pension scheme, we offer a range of flexible benefits and employee discounts to help you thrive across all aspects of your life. You can spend your flexible fund on the benefits that matter to you, whether that’s an electric vehicle, private healthcare, additional holiday or one or more of our other benefits.

We’ll offer you the flexibility, freedom and responsibility to make an impact in your role; whether that’s on-site, in the office or hybrid working from home.

We’re committed to championing diversity representation across gender, ethnicity, LGBT+, disability and more. This applies to all our roles, underpinned by our Everyone’s Welcome inclusion programme.

We’re a disability confident employer and we’ll do all we can to help with your application, making adjustments as you need.

What you’ll be doing

In our growing business you’ll be leading on the development and delivery of our organisational learning and development strategy, ensuring learning is aligned to strategic priorities. You’ll build the effectiveness and capability of managers and colleagues and develop operational effectiveness and high performance in everything that we do.

• Identify critical skills areas of focus for the business and deliver strategies to reduce organisational skills gap risks.
• Manage the Operational training delivery team, identifying improved ways of working, monitoring and budgetary accountability.
• Act as the Learning & Development Intelligent customer for EDF-RE when dealing with external organisations.
• Establish a roadmap and support on workforce planning to secure the necessary pipeline of talent to deliver the business’s growth ambitions, identifying key interventions by government and industry.
• Deliver a programmatic structured approach to skills development for the industry, including a critical analysis of the current Sector Deal. This should include working with external stakeholders and delivering a partnership approach.
• Partner with Renewable UK/ Offshore Wind Industry Council (OWIC) and other sector governing bodies on a regional, national and international stage and build trust with the industry for skills development and approach.
• Lead the annual reporting and implementation of key recommendations of our Skills outcomes and performance.
• Anticipate future market requirements such as development of floating wind and hydrogen production and ensure business awareness and preparedness. Contribute to wider industry matters including skills development in onshore wind, electrification, and hydrogen.
• Manage the business approach to Skills promotion in community areas in collaboration with EDF UK, External Affairs, Strategy and other development teams.
• Define and manage the business wide approach to future Skills, (Graduates and Apprentices) working alongside the Talent and Acquisition functions and others to steer a strategic direction in this space aligned to current and future skills requirements of the business.

What do you need to be great at this role?

Business Knowledge and Experience

• A background in, or significant skills knowledge from a national, regional or industry perspective.
• Ability to develop effective relationships and build credibility with stakeholders at all levels, both internally and externally.
• Good written and oral briefing skills, showing an ability to tailor a subject matter to the audience.
• Knowledge of and practical experience using Project Management principles in an environment that is delivering change.
• Can provide independent review of theory and approaches others have used.
• Proven record of using initiative and making sound judgements.
• Understands all the aspects that are needed to create and deliver against a plan
• Demonstrable experience of leading system changes across a matrixed organisation, using a variety of different change adoption methods
• Ability to facilitate, coach and present confidently at senior level both internally and externally
• Can provide specific advice on projects and/or programmes of work
• Ability to quickly establish personal credibility and impact, building effective and lasting relationships
• Good overview of renewable energy with particular focus on wind energy and wind farm developers or suppliers.
• Experience of working with and developing complex policy.
• Experience representing an organisation and policy position at working to senior level meetings.
• Can build and hold responsibility for client relationships on projects, developing services to meet their needs.
• Data, translation, insight, business case, narrative (storytelling)
• Highly skilled consultant, business focused partner
• Defining, planning and documenting an organisation-wide approach to Skills
• Process Design: Development and continual improvement of processes, with the ability to innovate and problem solve.

Closing date for applications: 10th of December 2024
Location: Based from our Cardinal Place office in London. We're proud to offer a Flexible First, hybrid approach to work meaning you can work comfortably from home with our offices as your base location.

Why EDF Renewables?

At EDF Renewables UK & Ireland we’re committed to tackling climate change. Our rapidly growing team of 500 talented people share an ambition to create a net zero future where clean, green, energy powers all our lives.

It’s a huge ambition and time is of the essence if we are to play our full part in meeting the UK and Ireland’s challenging net zero targets. With our unique mix of technologies including onshore and offshore wind, solar PV, battery storage and green hydrogen we are the UK & Ireland’s most diverse generator of renewable energy.

To achieve our goal of generating a massive 10GW of renewable energy by 2035, we’re working with stakeholders and communities throughout the UK and Ireland to unlock the enormous potential of the low carbon energy sector.

If you’re passionate about tackling climate change to create the cleaner, greener future we all want, we would love you to come join us.

Join us, and let’s do good together.