Director of Supply & Green Skills

Responsibilities

• Setting the clients long term talent attraction and skills strategy
• Owning market analysis to understand the availability of labour (now and projected) in order to define the clients long term strategy to build a sustainable pipeline of skilled and unskilled talent to meet the clients long term growth objectives
• Building the physical infrastructure to deliver a nationwide skills academy which meets the needs of the business - continuously developing to anticipate and address future skills gaps
• Create and drive the vision to position the client as a leading skills provider in the UK and creating brilliant skills opportunities for people across a diverse range of backgrounds (particularly backgrounds which are underrepresented in today’s electrician and heating labour markets)
• Managing a multi functional team to deliver an efficient talent attraction strategy (incl managing a significant performance marketing budget), highly effective recruitment and onboarding operations and a market leading training function.
• Developing a compelling employee value proposition that reflects the elements that attract great talent to working with the client (including compensation framework, benefits offering, training and development opportunities)
• Working alongside Regional Operations Teams to match the talent supply plans to local customer demand needs.
• Working with Data Science to continually iterate and improve their supply and training forecasting tools.
• Working with tech and product, as well as external suppliers to identify and build the systems and tooling to make this organisation scale effectively.

• Experience of running large, multi-functional teams (familiarity with field based / remote organisations is a plus).
• Experience working in a hyper-growth, tech enabled environment - with hands-on experience working closely with tech and product development.
• Experience managing teams in the development and delivery of successful large scale campaigns (paid & organic)
• Experience in managing large real estate projects (sourcing and operationalising large sites)
• Experience in the development and delivery of multi functional operations teams.
• A track record of working within complex regulatory environments and developing scalable processes which adhere to compliance standards.
• The ability to synthesise complex analysis (often with missing or imperfect information) to enable teams to define the best route forward.
• Ruthless prioritisation to drive the greatest impact for the organisation.
• Comfort with getting up to speed on technical issues and complex products. This role will manage a large group of technical specialists - without necessarily having that background yourself.
• Willingness to test and learn (quickly)