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Talent Development Partner

£30K-£33K Basic Salary
  • Ref: 3846
  • Permanent
  • Medical insurance
  • West Midlands

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a fast-paced technical operations team as a Talent Development Partner. In this newly shaped role, youll take ownership of developing people, processes, and performance through a structured internal training programme. Youll coach and support team members, identify skills gaps, and ensure individuals are equipped for success. Acting as a key connector between training, operations, and leadership, you'll help embed a culture of continuous learning and support long-term capability building across the team.

This job aligns to the LPI’s Capability Map see how

Responsibilities

  • Design, deliver, and manage a structured learning and development programme aligned with team goals and behaviours
  • Conduct regular 1:1 coaching sessions to support individual progression and knowledge application
  • Track and report on learning engagement and outcomes via the internal learning platform
  • Identify and respond to training needs, creating tailored content where required
  • Evaluate training effectiveness and adapt approaches to maximise impact
  • Set clear expectations, provide regular feedback, and monitor development progress
  • Support recruitment and onboarding, ensuring new starters are trained
  • Partner with internal teams to optimise processes, systems, and communication workflows
  • Support the design and delivery of career and skills mapping for internal development pathways
  • Step in to support team operations and take on supervisory responsibilities when needed
  • Act as a go-to escalation point for the team, customers, and internal stakeholders

Skills

  • Confident coaching and communication skills, with the ability to build rapport at all levels
  • Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
  • A collaborative and proactive mindset, with emotional intelligence and resilience

Experience

  • Experience in learning, people development, or team leadership roles
  • Experience running 11s, giving feedback, and supporting performance development
  • Familiarity with learning systems or platforms desirable

Education

  • CIPD Level 3 in Learning Development or willingness to work towards it
  • Coaching, training delivery, or performance management certifications desirable
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The LPI Capability Map

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Facilitate learning

Facilitate face-to-face learning
4 – Strategic

Facilitating face-to-face learning events, using engaging facilitation skills to actively involve people in learning, motivate them to adopt desired behaviours and meet agreed session outcomes.


Performance and impact

Assess performance
4 – Strategic

Measuring individual and team performance against valid and reliably defined performance outcomes at both formative (during the programme) and summative stages (when the programme has been completed).

Develop organisational capability
3 – Advanced

Identifying and developing the individual and team capabilities required to enhance organisational capability, which is also aligned to strategic business priorities.

Performance consulting
3 – Advanced

Resolving workplace performance issues by partnering with customers/clients to provide a systematic analysis of performance gaps, recommending appropriate performance interventions and measuring ensuing business outcomes.


Support learning

Develop continuous learning skills
4 – Strategic

Supporting individuals to develop self-directed and self-managed learning skills to drive independent, collaborative and networked learning (includes informally, formally, personally, professionally and in the workplace).

Support coaching
4 – Strategic

Building a culture of coaching where coaching is available at all levels of the organisation. Developing the skills of, and providing support to, leaders and managers to coach individuals and groups.

Support mentoring
4 – Strategic

Structuring a programme of support and guidance to members of the organisation via mentoring. Supporting development and application of skills by others to help people build successful mentoring relationships.

Support work teams
4 – Strategic

Working with line and project managers to help a work team perform by working, collaborating and learning effectively together.


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Your recruiter

Katie Beck

Katie is our recruitment team leader, supporting and guiding the team to find exceptional L&D talent for brilliant L&D opportunities. She possesses six years’ experience in L&D recruitment – across all levels of roles and all types of organisations.

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