Senior People Development Manager

2 months ago

London UK UK ECN AX, Central London, United Kingdom BDO UK Full time

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy – and directly advise the owners and management teams leading them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm. By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

This Senior Manager role is a senior learning and development role working across the business to lead the design and delivery our firmwide core skills offering

The role will design and deliver a structured system of tailored learning to develop our people as rounded business professionals with the skills, behaviours and mindset to deliver high quality work to our clients and audited entities now and in the future and to develop future leaders. To align our learning offering to business priorities and to our purpose: to support our people to succeed.

In this role you’ll:

  • Be responsible for the design and delivery of our new core professional skills offering from Early in Careers (EiC) to Director. A focus on leadership development.
  • Work with the broader learning team to design a core learning offering that is aligned across all populations to build our learning culture for our 8,000 people across our 18 offices in the UK. To ensure coherence and to build and accelerate development.
  • Create a holistic core learning offering that is aligned to our broader People Strategy, to include Talent Management, ESG, Wellbeing and EDI.
  • Design learning solutions based on best practice design to engage our learners and to support and embed learning on the job.
  • Ensure our core learning offering is clearly communicated and understood, that it is championed by senior leaders and builds our learning culture.
  • Monitor and measure the impact and effectiveness of our learning programmes. Report on outcomes and return on investment.
  • Lead and coach 5 direct Manager level reports.
  • Manage programme budgets.

You'll be someone with:

  • Proven experience in a senior learning and development role, preferably in a professional service business or a similar regulated environment.
  • Proven leadership and management skills, and the ability to influence and inspire others.
  • Expert knowledge and expertise in learning and development methodologies and tools. Proven experience of learning technologies and the use of data.
  • Creative and innovative mindset, the ability to design and deliver engaging and impactful learning and development solutions.
  • Strategic thinking and analytical skills, to understand how best to align our offering to meet business ambitions.
  • Strong collaboration and project management skills, to ensure a creative design process across a range of stakeholders.
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, to engage with different audiences across the business.
  • Qualification in instructional design, education, coaching, psychology/behavioural science preferred.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value and satisfying experiences at work, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy. Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions.

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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