Learning & Development Lead - Rolls Royce

Job Summary

The Learning & Development Lead is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive learning programs that align with the Rolls-Royce account's strategic objectives. Operating from Bristol, Derby or London, this role requires a strong in-office presence, a minimum of three days a week to foster collaboration and team cohesion, alongside monthly travel to regional locations in Derby and Bristol as required.

The primary focus of this role is high-level skills consultation and proactive stakeholder management, ensuring that learning solutions directly address business challenges. The role also supports the account's AI transformation by preparing employees to adapt to AI-driven workforce shifts and leveraging modern, AI-enabled tools to enhance learning delivery.

This is an active, execution-focused position. The successful candidate must balance strategic stakeholder consulting with direct facilitation, demonstrating a hands-on commitment to executing programs from end to end.

Why JLL

At JLL, you'll help shape how work gets done, for our people, our clients, and the industry we lead. AI is changing careers faster than ever, and we're building a skills-first path through that change, not just reacting to it. Our Learning & Development team sits at the centre of that shift: we're the team JLL is counting on to help thousands of employees across our key client accounts adapt, grow, and thrive over the next few years.

If you've already made AI-enabled tools part of how you design and deliver learning, you'll fit right in here, we see AI as an amplifier for what you bring, not a replacement for it. This is a chance to do career-defining L&D work, build skills that stay relevant as the future of work keeps changing, and help JLL's people move forward with confidence through intentional and strategic upskilling and reskilling initiatives.

You'll bring agility and resilience, comfort moving with change rather than waiting for it to settle. You're AI- and digital-literate, and you've already put AI-enabled tools to work in how you design and deliver learning. You think critically and analytically, and you know how to turn that thinking into a case others can act on. You collaborate naturally, influence without needing formal authority, consult rather than dictate, and you know how to drive change through people, not just process.

• Primary Stakeholders: Account directors and leaders across Rolls-Royce; PPs / PXPs; T&D Product Leads; REMS Senior Learning Partner; peers across the on-account and platform L&D team.
• Reports to: Global L&D Lead
• Ways of working: You will be part of a highly collaborative team and be working in a fungible pool with the wider REMS L&D team as priorities dictate. This position is based out of our Bristol, Derby or London office with a requirement to work in-office a minimum of three days a week and requires travel to Derby and Bristol once a month to support local stakeholders and deliver key sessions.

Job Details

• Skills Consultation & Needs Diagnostics: Serve as the primary L&D consultant for the Rolls-Royce account. Apply deep diagnostic skills to uncover root competency gaps behind training requests and scope tailored, high-impact learning solutions.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Establish trusted advisor relationships with senior account leadership, business partners, and department heads. Align diverse stakeholders around a unified, standardized learning model and communicate L&D's strategic value clearly.
• Active Facilitation & Hands-On Delivery: Personally deliver, facilitate, and execute a range of development programs, including leadership development, skills training, and employee onboarding. Maintain a high level of visibility by actively leading both digital and in-person learning interventions.
• Strategy & AI Integration: Develop and implement the account’s L&D strategy in alignment with wider business goals. Integrate foundational AI upskilling pathways to ensure employees successfully adapt to evolving, technology-driven roles.
• Performance & Succession Planning: Partner with HR and department heads to support performance management, design development plans for high-potential employees, and support succession planning initiatives.
• Evaluation & Budget Management: Monitor and evaluate program effectiveness using key performance indicators (KPIs). Manage the account L&D budget efficiently to ensure cost-effective resource allocation

Key Skills

• Skills Consultation: Outstanding consulting and scoping abilities; capable of diagnosing performance gaps, identifying future capability requirements, and aligning learning solutions directly to commercial business goals.
• Stakeholder Management & Influencing: Expert ability to build trust quickly with senior account directors and key client stakeholders; skilled at managing expectations, presenting data-driven business cases, and negotiating shared outcomes.
• Facilitation & Execution: Strong pedigree in direct classroom and virtual facilitation; possesses a "roll-up-the-sleeves" mindset to drive programs from concept through to hands-on execution.
• Agility & Comfort with Change: Thrives working at pace in an ambiguous, fast-evolving environment; easily adapts approach as AI capabilities and business priorities shift e
• Data-Driven Storytelling: Leverages metrics and completion data to build a narrative around the business value and impact of L&D initiatives.