Head of Learning & Development

About the role

Envest is looking for a Head of Learning & Development in Melbourne to lead the leadership and learning culture that will enable its people and business to thrive. The role develops and executes a learning and capability strategy supporting business performance, leadership excellence and future workforce readiness, and influences alignment and consistency in people capability across Envest's portfolio of businesses. It reports to the Chief People Officer – Broking and partners with the Executive Leadership Team and senior leaders.

Key responsibilities

• Build leadership capability: develop and execute a learning strategy aligned to business priorities, identify critical capability and future skill needs, establish capability frameworks for workforce planning, performance and succession, and ensure learning investment delivers measurable business impact.
• Design and oversee leadership development pathways for emerging, people and senior leaders, strengthening succession pipelines and embedding leadership expectations, values and behaviours.
• Drive continuous learning: champion a culture where learning is embedded in everyday work, introduce modern approaches, increase engagement and promote self-directed development.
• Lead learning design: oversee the design and delivery of learning experiences using digital, virtual, social and classroom solutions, and manage an external panel of learning providers, coaches, facilitators and partners.
• Support talent and organisational growth: partner with People & Culture leaders on talent development, succession planning and career pathways, and enable capability uplift during change and transformation.
• Harness data and technology: optimise learning technology and systems, use workforce insights and learning analytics to inform decisions, and set up reporting frameworks that show the value of learning initiatives.

Required profile

• Experience leading Learning & Development, Organisational Development, Capability or Talent functions.
• Proven track record developing and executing enterprise-wide learning and capability strategies.
• Experience designing and delivering leadership development programs.
• Exceptional stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, able to build credibility at executive level.
• Commercial acumen and a strong understanding of how capability drives business performance.

Required skills

• Experience leveraging learning technologies, digital platforms and data to improve outcomes.
• Ability to use learning analytics and workforce insights to measure outcomes and report on learning value.