Leadership Development Manager

Salary: Competitive per annum

Hours: 37.5 per week, Monday to Friday

Location: Hybrid, 3 days a week in our VHQ, Crawley with some occasional travel across our key Virgin Atlantic UK sites

Contract: Permanent

Closing Date: 7th May 2025

In a nutshell

At Virgin Atlantic, we are committed to developing our leaders and managers and ensuring they have the skills and knowledge to drive our strategic goals. We are looking for a proactive and experienced individual to join our Learning team as the Leadership Development Manager. This role is essential in implementing, delivering, managing, and evaluating leadership and management development programmes that align with the company's strategic goals.

As the Leadership Development Manager, you will be responsible for implementing, delivering, managing, and evaluating leadership and management development programmes that align with the company's strategic goals. You will ensure learner experiences support the transfer of learning and sustained behavioural change. This role involves collaborating with various departments to identify development needs, creating and identifying learning programmes to address those needs, and evaluating and improving their effectiveness and impact.

This role reports to the Senior Manager – Leadership Development and sits within the Learning people directorate. You will work closely with senior leaders, Vice Presidents, Heads of Departments, and external learning providers to ensure that leadership and management development initiatives support the overall talent management strategy. You will be part of this evolving team to enhance overall offering to leaders across Virgin Atlantic to ensure knowledge transfer, changing mindset and enhancing high performance.

Day to day

• Manage development programmes, ensuring high programme completion rates, positive participant feedback, and measurable impact on leadership and management effectiveness, engaging with and supporting learners to maximise the transfer of learning.
• Collaborate with various directorates to identify development needs and appropriate learning to support individual development to ensure alignment with strategic goals.
• Deliver in-house leadership and management programmes, workshops and team effectiveness programmes, achieving high delegate NPS scores and positive learning impact assessments.
• Evaluate and report on the effectiveness of development programmes and their impact on performance and productivity, demonstrating improvements in leadership and management competencies.
• Work with our People teams to identity and support the integration of leadership development with talent management initiatives aligned to talent management strategy.
• Manage relationships with external learning providers, support the identification of potential providers in the learning market ensuring high-quality and cost-effective learning programmes.
• Be agile and innovative to create programmes from scratch, through to implementation and evaluation.

About you

• Experience in delivering end to end impactful and engaging enterprise-wide leadership learning or development programmes including identifying need, developing, testing, implementation, review and ROI .
• Evidence delivering in-house leadership and management programmes and workshops, achieving high delegate NPS scores and positive learning impact assessments.
• Third-party learning suppliers experience on quality assurance, contracting, account management and evaluation of products and services.
• Experience of creating and delivering bespoke innovative learning programmes in matrixed environment for varying learning needs with successful outcomes on performance and culture.
• Demonstrable experience of facilitating to wide audiences across different divisions along with partnering with key senior stakeholders.
• Employment relations experience as it relates to management development with business partnering or learning partnering.
• CIPD qualification or equivalent in-house experience along with demonstrating a commitment to professional development in the field of HR and learning.
• Up-to-date industry knowledge of learning design and evaluation and a deep understanding of adult learning theory.
• Proficiency in using learning management systems (LMS) or similar relevant learning software, such as Oracle Fusion.

Our recipe for leadership

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Be yourself

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do our colleagues. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and actively encourage applications from all backgrounds. At Virgin Atlantic, we believe everyone can take on the world - no matter your age, gender, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disabilities, religion, or beliefs. We celebrate difference and everything that makes our colleagues unique by upholding an inclusive environment in which we can all thrive. So that everyone at Virgin Atlantic can be themselves and know they belong.

To make your journey with us accessible and individual to you, we encourage you to let us know if you’d like a little extra help with your application, or if you have any individual requirements at any stage along your recruitment journey. We are here to support you, so please reach out to our team, ([email protected]) feeling confident that we’ve got your individual considerations covered.