Head of Talent & Learning

The role will be required at our Luton Airport office 60 of the month according to our hybrid working policy. 

This role will be open until Friday 3rd January at 9am and your application will be reviewed after this point. 

About Us

We are easyJet – a FTSE-100 listed, £multi-billion low-cost airline that serves tens of millions of customers every single year. If you’re reading this, you have probably already been an easyJet customer, and you’ll know that there is no more iconic (or Orange!) travel brand in Europe. 

We fly more than 1,000 routes, connecting 35 countries across Europe, and employ more than 18,000 colleagues. We’re on a mission to make low-cost travel easy – and whatever your role here, you’ll connect millions of people to what they love using Europe’s best airline network, great value fares, and friendly service.

It takes a real team effort to run an operation as big and logistically complex as ours – and regardless of where you join us, no one day will ever be the same. One thing that does stay the same though is our people. They are energised, positive, inclusive, united by purpose, ready to meet problems head-on, and they have your back. We’re here to win together. We call that our ‘Orange Spirit’. It’s what makes our teams fun to be a part of and what brings us together.

An Outstanding Opportunity 

As we embark upon our next phase of growth and success, easyJet are now seeking a Head of Talent & Learning to take our Talent, Learning, Leadership, Performance and Early Careers agenda to new heights!  

Reporting directly to the People Experience Director you will be responsible for designing, implementing and over-seeing comprehensive programmes aimed at nurturing talent, enhancing colleague skills and building our leadership culture across the organisation.

About You 

You will be an accomplished and passionate Talent leader, with a natural inclination towards joining an organisation that prefers to move at pace and loves to develop talent from within. Energised and inspired by the opportunity to have a real impact, you’ll love the idea of stepping into a role with plenty to build and create. 

Naturally, you will have a breadth of experience across the Talent spectrum, ideally encompassing Talent Development, Learning, Leadership, Performance and Early Careers. An established leader in this space, you will bring the requisite knowledge and impact to influence colleagues from across the business and supercharge our efforts across the Talent agenda.

You’ll be a strategy-shaping, inclusivity-championing, Talent superstar, with all the energy and positivity needed to drive forwards this critical agenda in a totally brilliant business.  

You’ll focus your time on:

>    Collaborating across the business to define and refine the learning development & talent strategy, ensuring this is cohesively aligned to the easyJet corporate strategy 
>    Identifying emerging trends and best practices in talent, learning, early careers and leadership development to inform strategic decision making
>    Building and evolving the overall leadership development offer, ensuring our leaders are equipped with the capabilities needed for today and the future
>    Developing and implementing impactful learning programmes and development initiatives tailored to all employee levels and skills requirements 
>    Day-to-day management of the Learning, Early Careers and Leadership COE, ensuring seamless delivery of programs and services
>    Ownership of the easyJet LMS and the digital learning experience for colleagues
>    Monitoring KPIs and metrics to assess the effectiveness and impact of learning initiatives, then making data driven improvements
>    Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements and industry standards in all learning and development activities
>    Oversee the overall talent approach, ensuring we have full and diverse talent pipelines at all levels, and robust succession plans
>    Leading the senior leadership succession planning approach
>    Leading & overseeing the Performance Management framework & annual cycle 
>    Overseeing the design and execution of early careers programmes including work experience, graduate schemes and apprenticeships 
>    Leading a team of L&D and Early Careers SMEs, ensuring resources are aligned to areas of strategic need (circa 4-5 colleagues)

Ideally, You Will Also Be / Have

>    A track record of defining, designing and delivery in the Talent space
>    Passion for Diversity and Inclusion, understanding the importance of reflecting this in our learning offer.
>    High commercial acumen, able to build relevant, accessible programmes relevant for the business.
>    Innovative and change-driven, with a broad external network & knowledge of best external practise in other leading organisations. 
>    An expert relationship builder, able to build credible relationships with all levels of the organisation. 
>    Strong influencing and collaboration skills
>    Strong understanding of Early Careers and how to optimise the apprenticeship levy 
>    Understanding & experience of working in a European, operational business as well as a unionised environment is desirable but not essential. 
>    Undeniably strong people/team leadership capabilities

We welcome applications from people from all backgrounds as part of our ongoing commitment to having a team that truly represents the customers that we serve . You may feel that that you don’t meet every single requirement for this role, but we’d still encourage you to submit an application if you feel you meet enough criteria to be considered. And if you need any adjustments or support during the recruitment process please let us know and we’ll work with you to find a solution. 

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