Leadership and Management Lead

Job Introduction

DAC Beachcroft LLP are currently recruiting for a Leadership and Management Lead to join their Learning and Development team 

The Leadership and Management Lead's role is to provide a proactive, efficient learning offering to the business which is in line with the people and learning strategies.

Working hours: Monday to Friday 35 hours

The Leadership and Management Lead's role will also involve developing and delivering value adding learning and development interventions across all areas of the business to drive optimum performance, with a focus on enhancing the leadership and management development skills here at DAC Beachcroft. 

The ideal candidate will have substantial experience in a specialist Learning and Development role and experience of working at a senior level within a Learning and Development team.

Role Responsibility

• Work with the business to analyse learning needs, develop, co-ordinate and maintain learning programmes to ensure that all learning is delivered in line with business goals.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of programmes delivered and provide input to continuously improve practices.
• Manage the budget for the development of leadership and management activities.
• Support the Head of Learning and Development with the development and coaching of the L&D and wider HR team.
• Develop relationships with external training suppliers, e.g. for technical and business skills training and support the Head of Learning and Development in procuring new solutions when required.
• Provide coaching and consultancy support to the HR Business Partnering team and directly to colleagues in  DAC Beachcroft.
• Work with internal subject matter experts to design and deliver workshops and skills sessions as required.
• Work with Early Talent Lead and our Talent Partner to continue to shape and develop our Early Talent pipeline and our DAC Beachcroft Talent Programmes.
• Work with third party providers to continue to shape the DAC Bite sized learning modules.
• Continue to build on our learning culture and show how learning can add value to our business.
• Continue with our O shaped learning activities and supporting the embedding of O Shaped Leadership.
• Maintain networks and continuous professional development, keeping up to date with the latest approaches to learning and development and updates within the legal industry.

Firm wide:

• Understands DAC Beachcroft is an international firm.  Works with awareness of this structure to operate as one team/brand.
• Actively operates in the best interests of the firm at all times internally and externally.
• Operates in a regulated environment, effectively managing risk and compliance issues including data security.

Works in partnership with others to manage and mitigate commercial risk.

The Ideal Candidate

• Substantial experience in a specialist Learning and Development role and experience of working at a senior level within a Learning and Development team.
• Learning and Development qualifications in line with role requirements industry recognised/endorsed Coaching qualification, strength based assessment tools or a Learning and Development CIPD qualification.
• Learning Needs Analysis and blending learning experience and previous experience of facilitation and design of leadership and management interventions.
• Proven coaching experience and ideally coaching qualifications and experience of providing a coaching service to a wide level of roles.
• Experience of supporting subject matter experts in the design and delivery of training materials.
• A good level of computer literacy – experience of working with Learning Management Systems and or Learning experience platforms is desirable.
• Great communication skills, the ability to influence and engage colleagues and key stakeholders.
• Passionate about the importance of nurturing an continuous improvement culture and a role model of the behaviours that foster high levels of engagement.
• Enjoys working with a consultative and collaborative style and when sharing new ideas or new ways of working, they will make suggestions and take their colleagues with them on the journey.
• Self-motivated and able to work from strategic objectives.
• Good planning skills/attention to detail/project management experience.
• The ability to work with and understand bespoke systems quickly.

About the Company

We are a leading international legal business with over 2,500 colleagues and a diverse range of capabilities. We have 11 offices in the UK as well as offices in Dublin, Madrid, Paris, Singapore, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Miami. We also have associations/alliances with firms in Malaysia, Brazil, Peru, Argentina, Central America, the USA, Australia and Germany.

We are a broad-based commercial firm with a strong heritage in insurance, health and real estate. This is complemented by a fast-growing Business Advisory capability. We represent a wide range of clients, ranging from household names to government departments and NHS bodies. We act for all of the UK’s top-ten insurers, we are market leaders in the provision of strategic, commercial and regulatory advice to providers and commissioners in the health sector, and in real estate we advise all of the UK’s top-12 housebuilders.

We have an impressive legal pedigree, with 142 Chambers UK 2021 practice area and individual lawyer rankings. In Legal 500 UK 2021, the firm received a top tier ranking for 37 of its practice areas, and 58 DACB lawyers were singled out in the ‘Leading Individual' rankings.

Our successes have been recognised by the legal industry and the markets in which we operate. These accolades include two top prizes in the ‘Excellence in Business Development’ and ‘Excellence in Technology & Innovation’ categories of the 2020 Law Society Excellence Awards – the highest accolade for law firms in England & Wales. Our health sector team won the ‘Crisis Management Team of the Year’ award at the 2020 British Legal Awards for its support to the NHS at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and our Cyber & Data Risk team received the ‘Business Development Innovation Award’ at the 2020 Legal Innovation Awards, as well as ‘Cyber Law Firm of the Year’ at the prestigious Insurance Insider Cyber Rankings Awards, for its market-leading suite of digital tools to help our clients prepare for and respond to cyber and data risk crises.

Our vision is to be leading business advisers, recognised for our insight and our outstanding commitment to clients, and for being the place where talented people want to work. For further details on our work and our culture, please visit www.dacbeachcroft.com.

Application Details

At DAC Beachcroft, we don’t just accept your differences we celebrate them.  From bespoke solutions for our clients, to treating you like an individual.  Our strength comes from your diverse ideas and bringing the whole you to work. So if you’re good at what you do, come as you are.  We welcome direct applications and are happy to talk flexible working.

We also want you to be at your very best.  Please feel free to let us know of any changes we can make at any point in the recruitment process that will help support your application.  If this opportunity sounds of interest to you, please make an application and submit your CV.  Your application will be dealt with in the strictest of confidence.

Note for Recruitment Agencies – the DAC Beachcroft recruitment team is responsible for managing all current vacancies through direct hiring and referrals wherever possible.  We do work with recruitment agencies and where we require external support we will formally release those vacancies to the agencies on our Preferred Supplier List deemed best placed to assist us.  Speculative CVs sent by any agency to any DAC Beachcroft employee without a specific request by the recruitment team will not be accepted and with no introduction fee applicable.  Our recruitment team can be contacted at recruitment@dacbeachcroft.com

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