People Capability Lead

Ordnance Survey • Southampton • 1w ago

People Capability Lead

Join a newly formed People Capability team here in OS, with a pivotal mandate to shape and elevate the skills, leadership, and growth mindset underpinning our 5 year strategy.

Why this role matters

Futurefit impact: You'll architect a strategic talent and development roadmap, ensuring we have the right people with the right skills at the right time now and in the future.

Culture catalyst: You will champion continuous learning, leadership, and performance excellence to drive our purpose-driven culture across the organisation.

Visible people leadership: You'll lead by example, empowering and developing your team to thrive through clarity, support, and shared purpose.

This role leads a talented team of Resourcing, Talent, Learning and Leadership Specialists.

If you think OS is the place for you and you can make a difference in this role, please submit a CV together with a covering letter (or similar) telling us why you're interested and how your skills, experience, and unique qualities mean this is the role for you.

Please note that without a covering letter, we'll be unable to consider your application and it will be rejected.

What you'll do in this role

Shape our capability strategy & roadmap:

Lead the development of learning, talent, and succession frameworks for the organisation.

Translate business strategy and goals into priority capability initiatives that source, develop, and retain the skills and talent we need.

Lead and deliver talent, learning, and leadership initiatives with impact:

Lead the team to deliver effective and engaging solutions across leadership, early careers, talent, technical pathways, and more.

Align the talent, capability, and development approach with OS' career architecture, to enable talent and skills mobility that's needed.

Inspire and advise others:

Act as trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on people capability and talent that drives business performance.

Maintain strategic partnerships, both internally and across the industry, to source bestinclass solutions.

Be relentlessly curious:

Use data and insights to make what we do better.

Benchmark externally to keep practices current and innovative.

Lead your team:

Manage, coach, and inspire a high-performing, agile team across capability, resourcing, and learning domains.

Steward annual budgets with rigor, delivering clear ROI.

Embed a learning culture:

Advocate for inclusive and continuous development across all levels of the organisation.

About you:

You've got experience in a leadership, mid-senior level where you've had accountability for strategic planning and delivery.

Your experience supports your credibility, so you've probably worked in a range of HR or People Change roles, including Learning, Leadership, Talent or Recruitment.

You understand how to be successful in contexts like ours, by bringing experience of technology or data businesses and an awareness of public-sector organisations or similar.

You've got a track record of success and can evidence how you've delivered measurable impact from people capability initiatives before.

You're a strategic thinker who excels at translating complex data into relevant and valuable insights and conclusions. You're solution-oriented and adept at tackling ambiguity.

You facilitate, influence, and collaborate superbly, and can persuade and support stakeholders at all levels with ease.

You can successfully operate as a practical do-er and curious innovator - in fact, that excites you. You're resourceful and curious, and able to prioritise the right opportunities at the right time.

You're an exceptional people leader, with a track record of building and leading high-performing multi-disciplinary teams.

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Check out how we support and invest in our employees byclicking here.

Location

We embrace a hybrid working model at OS which means balancing intentional time together connecting, and autonomy to work in a way works for you. You will be required to spend 50% of your time in HQ.??

Closing date Sunday 07 December @23:59

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