People Capability Lead

Join a newly formed People Capability team here in OS, with a pivotal mandate to shape and elevate the skills, leadership, and growth mindset underpinning our 5 year strategy.

Why this role matters

• Futurefit impact: You'll architect a strategic talent and development roadmap, ensuring we have the right people with the right skills at the right time now and in the future.

• Culture catalyst: You will champion continuous learning, leadership, and performance excellence to drive our purpose-driven culture across the organisation.

• Visible people leadership: You'll lead by example, empowering and developing your team to thrive through clarity, support, and shared purpose.

This role leads a talented team of Resourcing, Talent, Learning and Leadership Specialists.

If you think OS is the place for you and you can make a difference in this role, please submit a CV together with a covering letter (or similar) telling us why you're interested and how your skills, experience, and unique qualities mean this is the role for you.

Please note that without a covering letter, we'll be unable to consider your application and it will be rejected.

What you'll do in this role

Shape our capability strategy & roadmap:

• Lead the development of learning, talent, and succession frameworks for the organisation.

• Translate business strategy and goals into priority capability initiatives that source, develop, and retain the skills and talent we need.

Lead and deliver talent, learning, and leadership initiatives with impact:

• Lead the team to deliver effective and engaging solutions across leadership, early careers, talent, technical pathways, and more.

• Align the talent, capability, and development approach with OS' career architecture, to enable talent and skills mobility that's needed.

Inspire and advise others:

• Act as trusted advisor to senior stakeholders on people capability and talent that drives business performance.

• Maintain strategic partnerships, both internally and across the industry, to source bestinclass solutions.

Be relentlessly curious:

• Use data and insights to make what we do better.

• Benchmark externally to keep practices current and innovative.

Lead your team:

• Manage, coach, and inspire a high-performing, agile team across capability, resourcing, and learning domains.

• Steward annual budgets with rigor, delivering clear ROI.

Embed a learning culture:

• Advocate for inclusive and continuous development across all levels of the organisation.

About you:

• You've got experience in a leadership, mid-senior level where you've had accountability for strategic planning and delivery.

• Your experience supports your credibility, so you've probably worked in a range of HR or People Change roles, including Learning, Leadership, Talent or Recruitment.

• You understand how to be successful in contexts like ours, by bringing experience of technology or data businesses and an awareness of public-sector organisations or similar.

• You've got a track record of success and can evidence how you've delivered measurable impact from people capability initiatives before.

• You're a strategic thinker who excels at translating complex data into relevant and valuable insights and conclusions. You're solution-oriented and adept at tackling ambiguity.

• You facilitate, influence, and collaborate superbly, and can persuade and support stakeholders at all levels with ease.

• You can successfully operate as a practical do-er and curious innovator - in fact, that excites you. You're resourceful and curious, and able to prioritise the right opportunities at the right time.

• You're an exceptional people leader, with a track record of building and leading high-performing multi-disciplinary teams.

The Rewards

We want you to love what you do. That is why our benefits package rewards a job well done. Check out how we support and invest in our employees by clicking here.

Location

We embrace a hybrid working model at OS which means balancing intentional time together connecting, and autonomy to work in a way works for you. You will be required to spend 50% of your time in HQ.  

Closing date Sunday 07 December @23:59