Skills Hub Manager

As the Skills Hub Manager, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our learning and development strategy, fostering a culture of growth and innovation, and helping our teams thrive in their careers. If you are passionate about leadership development, agile working, and creating impactful learning solutions, we would love to hear from you.

We are looking for an experienced senior learning and development leader to oversee a team of Centre Managers responsible for centres of excellence in a diverse range of skills and skill-based initiatives. These skills hubs include Leadership and Management, Agile, Lean, Change, AI, Mobility, upskilling, reskilling, Apprenticeships, and many more.

This role will focus on building a robust skills-based learning offering, supporting the growth and development of an experienced team of learning professionals, and driving a culture of continuous learning within the organisation. The ideal candidate will have the transferable skills to build and manage learning centre of excellence and communities in a variety of skill areas. 

Key Responsibilities:

• Leadership: Lead, inspire, and manage a team of experienced learning managers and professionals who oversee diverse learning programmes, ensuring alignment with our purpose and fostering a high-performing, collaborative environment. 
• Learning Strategy Development: Design and implement a comprehensive skills-based learning offering, ensuring it meets both the current and future needs of the Admiral Group.
• Centre of Excellence (CoE): In collaboration with SMEs, learning experts and our Centre Managers, define and build new CoEs, and to grow and improve existing CoE inline with Admiral Group’s strategy and future skill needs.
• Upskilling and Reskilling Initiatives:  Collaborate with leadership teams across the business and the wider L&D team, to define, build or buy and deliver comprehensive upskilling and reskilling initiatives to support the development of future skills requirement and business mobility. 
• Mobility Learning Solutions: Working with our future talent team, lead the creation of mobility-based learning solutions to ensure employees have access to development opportunities that encourage career progression and skill growth across the Admiral Group.
• Collaborative Culture: Foster a culture of collaboration, continuous learning, and knowledge sharing across teams. Encourage innovation in learning delivery and build strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure alignment of learning strategies with business goals.
• Relationship Building: Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, external partners, and funding bodies to ensure the successful delivery of learning programmes.
• Leadership Development: Provide leadership development guidance, enabling our leadership development team to deliver innovative leadership learning experiences aligned with strategic business priorities. with relevant regulations, including those specific to development schemes and apprenticeship standards.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Extensive experience in the L&D field including leadership, LNA, learning solutions, learning design, delivery and learning management.
• Experience and or transferable skills in building skill hubs or learning centre of excellences. 
• A range of expertise in a variety of skills areas such as leadership, management, agile, change, product, delivery, data, tech for example.
• Experience in leading collaborative teams of learning professionals, fostering a culture of innovation, and driving organisational learning initiatives.
• Extensive experience of defining and building reskilling and upskilling initiatives across large organisations and complex structures.
• Strong relationship-building skills with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring the alignment of learning strategies with business needs.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to build and implement mobility learning solutions that drive employee engagement and development.
• An understanding of apprenticeship and accreditation schemes is desirable i.e. ILM, Scrum.org, Welsh and English Apprenticeship Scheme for example
• A minimum of 8 years Learning and Development experience and experience of leading specialists and leaders is highly desirable.
• Experience in talent management and / or skill-based organisation is desirable.

Please note - we may close this vacancy early if we receive lots of applications or business priorities change.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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