Standard Life plc
Skills Solutions Lead
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Skills Solutions Lead
At Standard Life, we're building a culture where people can grow, adapt, and thrive. As our business evolves, developing the right skills has never been more important. That's why we're looking for 2 Skills Solutions Leads to help us create the capabilities our colleagues need to succeed today and in the future.
This is a unique opportunity to influence how skills are identified, developed, and embedded across the organisation, helping us deliver better outcomes for our customers, colleagues, and business.
Job Type: Permanent
Location: These roles are hybrid and can be based out of our London, Birmingham, or Edinburgh office.
Flexible working: All roles are open to part-time, job-share, and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.
Closing Date: 23/10/2026
Salary and benefits: £80,000 - £100,000 DOE plus an indicative bonus range of 30-60%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days, and much more.
Who are we?
We’re Standard Life, a retirement specialist focused entirely on retirement savings and income. We champion the belief that everyone’s journey to and through retirement can be better, and for more than 200 years, we’ve been helping our customers plan and prepare for their financial futures.
Life today is increasingly complicated, uncertain, and unpredictable. People move through different careers, face unexpected moments, and navigate important choices. We offer our colleagues flexibility, trust, and benefits that work for whatever life brings. In return, we expect curiosity, connection, accountability, and high standards. We make room for what matters - so you can bring your best, every day.
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The role
As a Skills Solutions Lead, you'll work closely with business leaders, People teams, and capability experts to understand future workforce needs and translate them into practical, scalable skills solutions.
You'll play a key role in identifying critical capability gaps, designing development pathways, and ensuring skills are embedded throughout the colleague lifecycle – from workforce planning and learning through to talent, performance, hiring, and internal mobility.
We have two opportunities available:
- Data, Digital & AI Skills Solutions Lead – specialising in future-focused digital, data, and AI capability.
- Enterprise Skills Solutions Lead – supporting a broad range of enterprise and functional capability priorities.
What you'll be doing
- Partnering with business leaders to understand strategic priorities and future skills requirements.
- Using workforce insight and skills data to identify capability gaps and opportunities.
- Designing and delivering practical, scalable skills solutions and development pathways.
- Collaborating across Talent, Learning, Workforce Planning, Talent Acquisition, and People Partnering teams.
- Supporting the adoption and continuous improvement of skills products and frameworks.
- Measuring impact and using evidence to inform future capability investment.
- Building strong stakeholder relationships and influencing enterprise skills priorities.
What we are looking for
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We're looking for someone who combines strategic thinking with a practical delivery mindset and is passionate about helping people develop the skills they need to succeed.
You'll bring:
- Experience in enabling organisations upskill their workforce.
- Build development interventions and programmes that enable learning in the work that enable sustainable skills that enable business strategy.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
- Experience designing and implementing skills, learning, or capability solutions.
- A data-led approach to understanding workforce needs and measuring outcomes.
- The ability to work collaboratively across a complex organisation and deliver through others.
- Strong planning, prioritisation, and problem-solving skills.
We want to hire the whole version of you.
We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.
If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.
We’re reviewing applications as they come in and may close this role before the closing date, so apply early to avoid missing out.
Find out more about working at Standard Life
- Guide for Candidates: standardlifeplc.pagetiger.com/guideforcandidates
- Find or get answers from our colleagues: www.standardlifeplc.com/careers/talk-to-us
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