# Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Consulting & Innovation **Company**: BBC **Location**: London, Salford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Newcastle, Glasgow or Edinburgh - Hybrid **Work arrangement**: hybrid **Experience**: senior **Job type**: full-time **Salary**: up to £120,000 **Category**: Consulting **Industry**: Media & Entertainment **Apply**: https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-Senior-Skills-&-Capability-Partner%2C-Consulting-&-Innovation-W1A-1AA/1377165457/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/job/senior-skills-and-capability-partner-consulting-ee0cf513-393/ ## Description The Senior Skills & Capability Partner, Consulting & Innovation plays a key leadership role in shaping how the organisation builds the skills and capability it needs for the future. As part of the Skills & Capability Leadership Team, the role helps drive enterprise-wide change while continuing to evolve how the function delivers impact. This role is about turning ambition into action, translating strategy and transformation priorities into practical approaches that improve how skills, learning and capability are designed, delivered and embedded. The role combines strategic thinking with hands-on leadership, supporting culture change and introducing new ways of working that genuinely work for the organisation and its people. **Your Key Responsibilities and Impact** - Lead initiatives that embed learning, experimentation and reflection into everyday work and leadership practice, supporting a culture that continues to adapt and improve. - Shape a clear, business-led view of the skills and capabilities the organisation needs to deliver its strategy, respond to change and evolve its operating models. - Ensure skills, learning and cultural change are embedded into major transformation activity, operating model change and performance priorities, acting as a senior adviser and change leader on capability and culture. - Shape and evolve the Skills & Capability strategy, transformation roadmap and data foundations, using insight to prioritise investment, design interventions and drive continuous improvement. - Develop the Skills & Capability narrative, shape how success is measured and provide leadership that creates a culture of accountability, collaboration and high performance. **Your Skills and Experience** **Essential Criteria** - Strategic thinking and judgement – shape direction in complex, changing environments and make sound trade-offs - Systems thinking – able to connect skills, capability, culture, data and performance into a coherent, joined-up approach - Adaptive leadership – comfortable working with ambiguity, testing new approaches and evolving direction as learning emerges - Transforming or modernising a people, capability, learning or change-focused function, including op models and ways of working - Deep understanding of how organisations build capability, skills and adaptability at scale **Desired but not Required** - Experience leading enterprise skills, capability, learning or transformation initiatives, with demonstrable impact on organisational performance and culture. - Experience shaping strategy with senior leaders, embedding skills, learning or behaviour change into major transformation programmes and operating model change. - Strong strategic thinking, systems thinking, transformation leadership and influencing skills, with the ability to work credibly with senior stakeholders across complex environments. - Experience using insight, evidence and data to guide priorities, measure impact, support decision-making and drive continuous improvement. - Knowledge of organisational capability, workforce transformation, learning ecosystems, agile and iterative change approaches, and emerging trends shaping future skills and organisational capability. **Benefits** - Fair pay and flexible benefits including a competitive salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week, 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym. - Excellent career and professional development. - Support in your working life, including flexible working which you can discuss with us at any point during the application, selection or offer. - A values-based organisation where the way we do things is as important as what we do. For more fresh new jobs, check out [yubhub.co](https://yubhub.co/). ## Skills ### Required - strategic thinking - systems thinking - adaptive leadership - transformation leadership - influencing skills ### Nice to have - experience leading enterprise skills - capability learning or transformation initiatives - shaping strategy with senior leaders - embedding skills learning or behaviour change --- Source: [Apply at careers.bbc.co.uk](https://careers.bbc.co.uk/job/London-Senior-Skills-&-Capability-Partner%2C-Consulting-&-Innovation-W1A-1AA/1377165457/?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)