Job Title: Talent & Learning Lead
Location: Scotstoun – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £73,000, dependent on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
- Collecting feedback and insights from the sector to ensure CoE activities align with business needs
- Overseeing the planning and execution of Talent Management and Learning & Development initiatives across the line of business and sector
- Supporting the overall plan to develop and deliver against an integrated view of Talent & Learning processes
- Enabling cross-functional collaboration between lines of business and sector teams on all talent-related initiatives
- Coaching-focused line of business supporting People teams in the areas of talent and organizational development
- Managing and resolving complex queries requiring business knowledge and face-to-face handling
Your skills and experience:
Essential:
- Extensive knowledge and insight of Talent, Leadership, Learning and Performance
- Awareness of external market standards and trends
- Ability to analyse information from a variety of sources and make evidence-based decisions
- Demonstrable ability to think strategically and collaborate effectively to deliver medium- to long-term value on initiatives with complex scope and wide-reaching impact
Desirable:
- HR or related subject qualification
- Chartered member of CIPD, equivalent or working towards
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Talent & Learning Team:
We’re looking for a Talent and Learning Lead to join us at our Scotstoun site. In this role, you’ll drive the delivery of our global Talent Strategy by aligning it with business planning across sectors and functions. You’ll lead key initiatives such as talent development, succession planning, skills gap analysis, and external talent pipelines—ensuring high-value impact across the organisation. This is a great opportunity to build your career with BAE Systems while working across multiple business areas.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing date: 22nd May 2025.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
Interviews W/C 9th June 2025.
