Head of Learning, Culture & Engagement

Location: Remote, with regional travel
Salary: £95,000 - £100,000
Contract: Permanent/Full-Time

Are you an experienced Learning, Culture & Engagement leader looking for a role where you can shape people strategy at an organisational level?

We are working exclusively with a large, multi-site organisation to appoint a Head of Learning, Culture & Engagement. This is a high-profile leadership opportunity, reporting directly to the Chief People Officer, with responsibility for shaping and delivering a broad people agenda spanning Learning & Development, Culture, Employee Engagement, DEI and Wellbeing.

The Role

As Head of Learning, Culture & Engagement, you will provide strategic and enterprise-wide leadership across the portfolio, ensuring that learning, culture and engagement initiatives are aligned to organisational priorities and deliver tangible impact.

A key priority will be strengthening leadership capability across the organisation and scalable development solutions for leaders at all levels.

Alongside this, you will lead the Culture & Engagement agenda, owning the employee listening strategy and ensuring that colleague feedback translates into visible action.

You will also hold senior responsibility for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Wellbeing, developing proactive, evidence-led initiatives that support inclusion, belonging and colleague wellbeing.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver an enterprise-wide Learning & Development strategy aligned to the wider People Strategy and organisational priorities.
• Lead the learning portfolio across mandatory training, induction, professional development, leadership development, apprenticeships and learning systems.
• Develop innovative and scalable approaches to leadership and capability development, including a Leadership Academy.
• Own the organisation's employee listening and engagement strategy, turning insight and colleague feedback into meaningful action.
• Lead culture and organisational development activity that strengthens belonging, trust, leadership effectiveness and alignment to organisational values.
• Develop and lead the DEI and Wellbeing strategy, ensuring priorities are measurable, evidence-led and embedded throughout the organisation.
• Use workforce, engagement, learning and wellbeing data to identify priorities and measure organisational impact.
• Provide clear and insightful Executive and Board-level reporting, highlighting progress, risks and recommendations.
• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing specialist team.
• Manage significant budgets, suppliers and external partnerships, ensuring strong commercial value and continuous improvement.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders, operational stakeholders and the wider People function to ensure people initiatives translate effectively into practice.