Leadership and Management Training Manager

Job Title: Leadership + Management Training Manager

Salary: From £58k DOE (pro rata for part time)

Location: Northampton NN4

Type of Role: Part Time 2 days per week / Permanent

Travel: Travel expected to our offices, HO in Northampton and offices in London / Nursery settings

Closing Date: as soon as right candidate hired

The Leadership & Management Training Manager is a key role in the Talent and Development team of Bright Horizons UK, working collaboratively with the Head of Talent & Development to oversee the design & delivery of leadership and management training for corporate and full service business leaders and aspiring leaders, ensuring professionals have access to meaningful Talent and Development opportunities. This role comes with responsibility for analysing data and creating measurables to support the development, writing, and delivery of training from Level 2 to Level 7 equivalence (Senior Leadership Team).

The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the delivery of leadership and management objectives through ensuring training and professional development activities of the highest quality, which reflect academic theories, inspirational leadership practices, current international research and the training needs analysis provided by the Talent team.

The role sits within Talent and Development and works closely with the Head of Talent & Development, and other leaders & senior leaders across the business, to ensure best practice in leadership and management in line with Keeping Everyone Safe and Bright Horizons’ policies and procedures. This includes the design and delivery of Senior Leader Forum training content including relevant theory and related activities.

The Leadership & Management Training Manager is directly responsible for supporting the design and delivery of effective face-to-face and digital training to leaders of all levels and aspiring leaders across all functions of the business, including extended training programmes for external accreditation, ensuring differentiation to meet a variety of learners’ needs including those who operate at a board/strategic level. This includes holistic psychometric assessment and feedback.

In addition, this post-holder will work with the Talent and Development team to establish trends and create effective impact reporting methods. Supporting the wider Talent strategy at key times throughout the year.

The role will provide flexible, holistic support across the Talent & Development Team, working with the wider business when needed, depending on business priorities, to align with Bright Horizons strategic objectives. This may involve undertaking a variety of miscellaneous tasks.

• Analyse data provided by the Talent Team to provide detailed training needs analysis
• Create and deliver training both in person and virtually to meet the business needs identified in the training needs analysis
• Measure the impact of training interventions against the Leadership competencies, internal audit results and Ofsted ratings and present results for analysis with the Talent Manager
• Support and offer expert guidance on the Talent and Development pathways for leaders and managers from recognition through to calibration and delivery of programmes
• Promote HEART culture, values, and behaviours, to drive quality improvement and pedagogical excellence across the business, making a positive contribution to service excellence
• Implement and provide evidence of training impact
• Build robust relationships with cohorts offering professional guidance and exemplary organisation to support successful completion of Leadership programmes
• Deliver and manage agreed professional development initiatives, proposals and projects for Leadership and Management innovations in collaboration with the HR and Operations teams as appropriate, to secure cohesion and consistency
• Provide high quality training and professional development activities to recognised leadership talent, to drive a culture of ongoing improvement and secure high-quality leaders across the business
• Support leaders through the running of psychometric assessments and training, ensuring data privacy at all times
• Support the Leadership & Management Manager Development agenda through implementation of measurable competencies and Talent programmes that positively impact retention and promotion data
• Develop new training programmes as requested in collaboration with the HR, Operations and UK Leadership team to ensure compliance and consistency
• Take responsibility for own personal and professional development, accessing high level training and development activities that inform leadership skills based on national and international perspectives of best practice
• Use data and knowledge of leaders to contribute to the succession planning strategy as required
• Lead on the psychometric strategy for the business to provide a cyclical holistic view of our talent
• Contribute to the Succession strategy with the…