Skills Development Partner (12 Month FTC)

Location: Hybrid, with at least two days per week or 40% of working time at an office in Edinburgh, Bristol, Chester, Halifax or Leeds, UK.

Salary: £61,344–£74,976 per year.

Company

hirify.global is a major UK financial services organisation investing in its people, data and technology to serve 28 million customers.

What you will do

• Shape and deliver skills strategies for key professions and future business needs.
• Use skills intelligence, workforce data, assessments and proficiency insights to identify capability gaps, emerging risks and priority opportunities.
• Manage targeted skills interventions, including job family changes and proposition enhancements.
• Translate market insight, external trends and emerging technologies into recommendations for workforce and skills decisions.
• Partner with senior leaders and subject matter experts to define future skills and capability priorities.
• Measure outcomes and continuously improve skills propositions using data and insight.

Requirements

• Use data, insight and visualisation to form informed opinions, communicate plans clearly, tell compelling stories and influence decisions.
• Build trusted relationships and align stakeholders around shared skills and workforce priorities.
• Connect business strategy, technology change and workforce capability to anticipate longer-term talent and skills needs.
• Think strategically and deliver tangible outcomes in complex or ambiguous environments.
• Demonstrate strong consultancy and influencing skills, including challenging assumptions and building credibility with senior stakeholders.
• Apply an understanding of learning psychology to shape effective skills and capability development approaches.
• Remain curious and externally focused on emerging skills, workforce trends and future capabilities.
• Bring energy and enthusiasm for shaping the future of talent.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid working with flexibility in office attendance and working patterns, including reasonable adjustments for disabilities.
• Pension contribution of up to 15%, annual performance-related bonus and share schemes including free shares.
• 30 days’ holiday plus bank holidays, generous parental leave and wellbeing initiatives.
• Benefits adaptable to individual needs, including discounted shopping.
• Commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion, with initiatives supporting menopause health, cancer-related needs and workplace accessibility.

Hiring process

• Applications are assessed against the minimum criteria, with guaranteed interviews for a fair and proportionate number of eligible applicants with a disability, long-term health condition or neurodivergence.
• Reasonable adjustments are available throughout the recruitment process.