Learning and Talent Development Executive

Licensed sponsor London Full-time Posted 3 hours ago

About BII

British International Investment (BII) is the UK’s leading development finance institution, wholly owned by the UK Government. Our primary mission is to address global development challenges through strategic investments that promote sustainable and inclusive economic growth.

BII focuses on catalysing economic development, creating jobs, and building resilient economies in some of the world's most complex and underserved markets. We invest in businesses and projects that prioritise inclusive development, environmental sustainability, and innovation.

Our approach is characterised by rigorous investment standards, high governance principles, and a commitment to delivering measurable development impact. Our team consists of highly skilled and passionate professionals dedicated to making a tangible difference globally.

We foster a collaborative and intellectually stimulating work environment that values curiosity, innovation, and professional growth. Our culture balances high performance with a strong emphasis on wellbeing, ensuring our employees can achieve their full potential while contributing to our mission.

BII at a glance

Over 75 years supporting sustainable business growth in developing and emerging markets
More than £9.9 billion in net assets
1,600+ businesses invested in
950,000+ workers in the businesses we support
650+ people in our diverse global team
3 key development objectives: Productive | Sustainable | Inclusive

Team and role overview

The Learning and Talent Development (L&TD) team sits within the Talent Acquisition, Development and Mobility function and comprises three roles: the L&TD Manager, L&TD Executive and L&TD Coordinator. Together, the team is responsible for delivering BII's learning and talent development strategy, ensuring colleagues have the capabilities, development opportunities and support required to enable business performance and long-term organizational success.

The L&TD team's priorities are

Building the critical capabilities required to deliver BII's strategy and support future operating model evolution.
Identifying and developing diverse talent at all levels of the organisation, including a key focus on developing BII's future leaders and strengthening succession pipelines.
Programme management of BII’s Performance Evaluation and Development Programme (PEDP), working closely with HRBPs and the business to embed a high-performance culture.
Supporting L&TD commercial rigour and operational efficiency through effective governance, supplier management, measurement, technology and processes.

Purpose

Reporting to the L&TD Manager, the L&TD Executive plays a key role in designing, delivering (via strategic partners) and evaluating strategic learning and talent development initiatives aligned to BII's people and business priorities.

The role owns a portfolio of talent development and capability building projects alongside playing a key role in BII’s Performance Evaluation and Development Programme (PEDP). Working closely with stakeholders across the business, this role translates strategic priorities into practical interventions, ensuring a high-quality employee experience and measurable business impact.

The postholder will also contribute to the ongoing development of the L&TD offering, leveraging best practice and external insights to continually improve what we do and how we do it.

Responsibilities

The key responsibilities of this role sit across four areas:

Strategic learning and talent programmes
Capability building and learning solutions
Performance Evaluation and Development programme (PEDP)
Measurement, insight and continuous improvement
Supplier and stakeholder management

Strategic learning and talent programmes

Deliver strategic development interventions in response to organisational priorities, capability needs and workforce trends.
Support the delivery of BII's approach to identifying and developing future leaders, including succession-focused talent initiatives, mentoring, coaching and targeted development interventions.
Manage programme governance, planning, communications, stakeholder engagement and impact evaluation.

Capability building and learning solutions

Design and deliver learning solutions that build critical organisational capabilities and support execution of BII's strategy.
Support the ongoing development of people manager capability through learning resources and targeted development activities.
Design and facilitate engaging learning experiences across virtual, face-to-face and blended formats including digital learning.
Support career development initiatives that promote employee growth, internal mobility and the BII career value proposition.

Measurement, insight, and continuous improvement

Support the development of learning analytics and performance insights, helping demonstrate the impact and return on investment of L&TD activities.
Use feedback, business data and industry best practice to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Supplier and stakeholder management

Build strong relationships with stakeholders across HR and the business to identify needs, influence priorities and ensure successful delivery of L&TD initiatives.
Manage external suppliers and partners, ensuring the quality, effectiveness and value of services provided.
Support strategic supplier reviews, procurement activity and contract management processes as required.

Performance Evaluation and Development programme (PEDP) support

Programme management of PEDP as a business enabler to a high-performance culture
Evaluation of effectiveness and impact of the PEDP programme
Enable a ‘business as usual’ annual cycle with a predictable, repeatable schedule with standardised business support including guidance and skills training.
Work closely with key stakeholders including HRBPs, HR Ops, the business and the Reward team as needed

The candidate

Background, skills and aptitude

The candidate must have a strong background in performance, learning, talent development or organisational development, ideally within a financial services or professional environment.

Candidates should be motivated by BII's development mission and demonstrate the ability to translate strategic objectives into practical, high-impact programmes and initiatives.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record of programme managing complex programmes of work, including working with multiple senior stakeholders and delivery of measurable outcomes.

Essential skills

Strong programme management capability.
Experience designing and delivering learning and talent development initiatives working with strategic suppliers.
Experience of designing, executing and evaluating talent management and development programmes
Experience of operationalising complex performance management programmes
Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to analyse data and draw meaningful insights to support decision making.
Experience managing external suppliers and partnerships.
Operational excellence, attention to detail and a continuous improvement mindset.
Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Facilitation and presentation skills; or ambition to develop these skills further.

Desirable skills

Exposure to organisational capability, workforce planning or future skills initiatives.
Learning measurement and evaluation expertise, including ROI methodologies.
Experience of digital learning platforms, learning technologies and learning analytics.
Strategic thinking and organisational development capability.

Our cultural values

We look for team members who aspire, as we do, to work at our best and to be:

Impact-led, commercially rigorous
Tenacious in the face of challenges
Collaborative and caring

British International Investment is committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes all applicants regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation or educational background.

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Salary: Competitive