Designs and delivers skills, sales capability, leadership, and management development programmes. Owns career, skills, and job architecture frameworks; partners with commercial leaders and HR to define capabilities, progression pathways, and workforce priorities. Uses learning technology, analytics, and engagement insights to measure impact and improve programmes. Facilitates learning, manages stakeholders and external partners, and embeds skills-based talent practices across development, succession, workforce planning, hiring, and career mobility.
At CFC, developing the right skills is critical to how we grow, innovate and perform. As Skills Development Partner, you'll play a key role in shaping how we build the expertise needed to support the next phase of CFC's growth.
Working closely with business leaders, HRBPs and the wider Talent & Development team, you'll identify priority skills, design practical development solutions and help create clear pathways for people to grow their careers at CFC.
Operating in a fast-paced, commercially focused environment, you'll lead initiatives across skills development, career frameworks, job architecture and management development, helping ensure our people have the skills needed to succeed today and in the future.
This is an opportunity to combine strategic thinking with hands-on delivery, influencing how skills are developed across the business and delivering work that has a visible impact on performance and growth.
About the role
- Shape and deliver skills initiatives that support business priorities and future growth.
- Partner with leaders to identify critical skills requirements and development priorities.
- Use data and insight to inform decisions, measure impact and guide investment.
- Own and evolve CFC's skills framework, career pathways and job architecture.
- Build clear career pathways that support employee growth and internal mobility.
- Embed skills frameworks across development, career progression and broader People initiatives.
- Design and deliver practical management development initiatives that help managers lead effectively, provide feedback and support performance.
- Work with internal and external partners to deliver high-quality development experiences that create measurable impact.
- Partner with stakeholders across the business to ensure development activity delivers measurable business value.
- Contribute to broader People initiatives that strengthen organisational performance and support business growth.
About you
We're looking for someone who combines expertise in skills development with a commercial mindset, helping the business build the skills needed for future success.
You'll likely bring:
You'll likely bring:
- Experience in skills development, organisational development, career frameworks or job architecture within a commercial environment.
- Proven experience developing and embedding skills frameworks, career pathways or job architecture.
- Experience using skills and development data to identify priorities, inform decisions and measure impact.
- Experience partnering with senior leaders to understand future skills requirements and translate them into practical development solutions.
- A track record of delivering initiatives that strengthen performance and support business growth.
- Commercial judgement and an understanding of how skills development contributes to business outcomes.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively.
- Experience operating in a fast-paced, growth-oriented environment, ideally within financial services, insurance, a private equity-backed business or a similarly complex commercial organisation.
Nice to Have
- Experience building enterprise-wide skills frameworks, career pathways or progression models.
- Experience supporting organisational change, business transformation or job architecture initiatives.
- Experience within speciality insurance, financial services or another highly regulated environment.
Core Values
Love what you do:
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
We show up each day ready to take on the world. Our passion and intensity set us apart and makes the difference to our colleagues, customers, brokers and carriers.
Challenge everything:
We’re never afraid to question the way that things are done and we constantly challenge ourselves and others to makes things better.
Have fun, be good:
Insurance is a serious business, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. We make it fun to work at CFC, we welcome all viewpoints, and we treat everyone how we would expect to be treated.
About
CFC is a specialist insurance provider, pioneering emerging risk and market leader in cyber. Our global insurance platform uses cutting-edge technology and data science to deliver smarter, faster underwriting and protect customers from today's most critical business risk.Headquartered in London with offices in New York, Melbourne, Sydney, Austin, Madrid, Brussels and Brisbane, CFC has over 1200 staff and is trusted by more than 100,000 businesses across 90 countries.At CFC, insurance isn't just about underwriting. From data science to software development, and digital marketing design, we've got something for everyone. We're passionate about pushing boundaries, thinking differently and building the insurance company of the future.CFC is committed to the principles of equal opportunities and creating an environment in which all individuals are always treated with dignity and respect. We encourage a diverse corporate culture of openness and appreciation to create an environment in which your talent can be developed in the best possible way. Should you require any reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process please let us know.Feeling like you need to tick every box before applying? We see things differently. In a rapidly scaling company like ours, ambition and the drive to learn count for more than a 'perfect' checklist. We're building the future of insurance, and that requires diverse talent eager to grow with us. If this role excites you and you're ready to make a significant impact, bring your unique background and let's build something great together.
CFC London, England Office
London, United Kingdom
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