Posting Date: 7 Apr 2025
Function: HR
Unit: HR
Location: UK Wide, United Kingdom
Job Title: People Leadership Development Specialist
Location: Birmingham, Bristol, London, Manchester (role is also being advertised in India)
Join BT as a People Leadership Development Specialist
About People & Culture Team
The BT People and Culture team is dedicated to fostering an inclusive, innovative, and engaging work environment where every employee can thrive. We focus on attracting, developing, and retaining top talent, ensuring that our workforce is equipped with the skills and support needed to drive our business forward. By championing diversity & wellbeing, promoting continuous learning, and being focused on delivering value for our organisation, we create a culture that empowers our people to deliver exceptional results for our customers and communities. Aligned with BT's vision to "connect for good," we amplify the power of people and technology to help solve some of the UK’s biggest challenges and build meaningful connections.
The People Leadership Development Specialist plays a crucial role in designing, developing, and managing people leadership development products and interventions across BT Group, owning the end-to-end journey from defining through to design, deployment and iteration of products or as part of larger deliverables.
A strong focus on customer centricity is essential for this role, to ensure that all people leadership development products address business challenges and drive sustainable value for BT Group. Leverages expertise in behavioural and capability development, alongside deep insights into current theory, best practices, and research, to design and deliver impactful learning products that drive performance and create meaningful shifts in capability.
Skills and Experience You’ll Need:
* Experience in building Leadership capability at all levels and connecting all levers across the colleague life cycle to build sustained performance and capability beyond learning.
* Adept at leveraging external research, insights and trends to develop colleague centric, innovative learning interventions that are deeply connected to the business strategy and context.
* Able to define capability gaps and translate them into actionable, relevant interventions that positively impact performance with clear, measurable ROI.
* Understanding and experience in behavioral science and behavioral change management, and translating that into practical interventions.
* Experience operating in and managing Agile Squads, and collaborating in a matrix environment.
* Commercially astute and able to speak the language of the Business and ability to use deep business knowledge to inform decision-making.
* Able to build strong, credible relationships with key stakeholders and successful at influencing and gaining buy in.
* Leverages internal data and analytics and external best practice and insights to support innovative product design and development of deliverables.
A Few Points To Note:
Although these roles are listed as full-time, if you’re a job share partnership, work reduced hours, or any other way of working flexibly, please still get in touch.
We will also offer reasonable adjustments for the selection process if required, so please do not hesitate to inform us.
Studies have shown that women and people who are disabled, LGBTQ+, neurodiverse or from ethnic minority backgrounds are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification and criteria. We're committed to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace where everyone can be their best, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every requirement on the Job Description, please apply anyway - you may just be the right candidate for this or other roles in our wider team.
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