Learning & Talent Manager

Join LGPS Central at a pivotal moment, where investment meets long-term impact.

The Learning and Talent Manager will move learning from programme-led activity to a strategic enabler of organisational capability, culture and future skills, helping colleagues make an impact, unlock potential and build confidence for future success.

The role will connect learning, skills and talent into an engaging colleague experience, strengthening learning journeys, internal mobility, succession and skills-based development.

• Drive the learning, skills and capability agenda, translating the People Strategy into development that builds confidence, impact and future-ready capability.
• Partner with the Senior Leadership Team and people managers to identify current and future skills requirements, priority gaps and capability needs.
• Support a skills-based organisation through skills taxonomies, pathways, academies and development plans linked to performance, career growth and potential.
• Align learning and skills development with the culture programme, reinforcing the behaviours, mindsets and capabilities needed in a high-performing, values-led organisation.

• Create learning journeys for new starters, managers, future leaders and technical specialists.
• Integrate learning activities, resources and programmes into a coherent, inclusive offer aligned to business priorities.
• Curate practical content and promote continuous, collaborative learning in the flow of work.

• Own and evolve the learning platform as an intuitive gateway to development and opportunity.
• Manage platform content, pathways, campaigns and engagement across mandatory, regulatory, technical, leadership and professional development.
• Use AI, automation and learning technology to improve adoption and personalised, accessible learning journeys.

• Shape talent approaches that create clearer pathways for growth, progression, promotion and future contribution.
• Coordinate succession planning and leadership pipeline activity for business-critical roles.
• Build internal mobility pathways through promotions, secondments, internal moves, stretch assignments, projects and mentoring.

• Design practical leadership, people manager and future leader interventions that build confidence, accountability and the behaviours needed in a regulated organisation.
• Coordinate programme design, suppliers, communications, tracking and evaluation.
• Support the CPO to develop board skills and training programmes that strengthen governance capability and regulatory understanding.
• Support regulatory readiness, conduct, risk ownership, operational resilience and a values-led culture.

• Develop learning and talent MI, dashboards and reporting to support evidence-based decisions.
• Use data, colleague feedback and manager insight to shape learning, development and talent outcomes.
• Evaluate impact on performance, retention, engagement, mobility and organisational capability.

• Lead or support People projects across skills, capability, learning, talent, succession, mobility and learning technology.
• Build strong relationships with leaders, managers, colleagues, providers and platform partners.
• Work with the People team to ensure skills, capability and pathways inform performance, progression and reward structures.
• Work across the People team to join up learning, talent, performance, reward, recruitment and employee experience activity

LGPS Central (LGPSC) Ltd is the FCA regulated asset manager for fourteen local authority pension funds across the Midlands. LGPSC is jointly owned on an equal shares basis by those Partner Fund, and it is responsible for managing £100bn+ of their assets. It is one of six Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) asset pools in the UK.

LGPS Central’s Partner Funds are:

• Cheshire Pension Fund
• Derbyshire Pension Fund
• Leicestershire Pension Fund
• Nottinghamshire Pension Fund
• Shropshire Pension Fund
• Staffordshire Pension Fund
• West Midlands Pension Fund
• Worcestershire Pension Fund
• Gloucestershire Pension Fund
• Hampshire Pension Fund
• Suffolk County Council
• Wiltshire Pension Fund
• Norfolk Pension Fund
• Oxfordshire Pension Fund

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