Head Of Engagement And Development

Sullivan Brown are delighted to be partnering KAEFER UK & Ireland to recruit the newly created role of Head of Engagement and Development.

Our mission is clear: to be the most reliable and efficient provider of technical industrial services.

KAEFER UK & Ireland provides a large and growing range of industries with asset integrity services including access solutions, insulation, surface protection, HVAC fabrication, EC&I and more. We focus on improving energy efficiency and extending asset life cycles.

The company has thirteen operating centres across the UK and Ireland, employing approximately 3,500 highly skilled and experienced people. Our people are our lifeforce and every day they deliver excellence to our customers.

KAEFER UK & Ireland is part of the KAEFER group, a global €2.3 billion business with its headquarters in Bremen, Germany. KAEFER works on more than 5,500 job-sites internationally, with around 32,000 employees. With unrivalled experience and expertise, our teams provide trusted partnerships and tailored support to execute even the most challenging and complex projects for clients.

We take pride in being part of a global company with common values and many diverse and individual voices. We make positive contributions in the communities where we live and work, after all when it counts, count on us!

Head of Engagement and Development

 The Head of Engagement and Development is a new role and will focus on leadership development, engagement strategies and delivering change. This role is all about creating a robust learning and Development framework to support our colleagues to succeed at work.

It will also focus on developing agile engagement tools which align to our culture and values so we can obtain regular colleague feedback to help us to respond and continually improve to create a great place to work where colleagues want to stay and build their careers.

The role will also ensure that change is introduced and managed to create lasting impact.

Key Accountabilities

• Working with the Director of People and Development and the business partnering team responsible for creating a development and engagement strategy with a focus on modern and agile techniques.
• Development of a leadership development Programme for all leaders of the business focusing on behavioral change and leader as coach.
• Supporting the delivery of change initiatives within the People team ensuring change is delivered effectively to create lasting impact.
• Identify and measure employee engagement, starting from a base of nothing.
• Develop and commission tools and initiatives to measure, understand and improve colleague experience and manage learning (LMS system)
• Overall responsibility for ensuring that training competence is effectively managed.
• Responsible for the leadership and Development of a small team

Relevant Experience:

• This role is a strategic role, and the successful candidate should have experience of commissioning products, tools and services within a development or engagement background.
• Ability to challenge the status quo to find the right and lasting outcome.
• Worked within an outcomes-based approach.
• Experience of change management
• High organized and innovative.
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
• Experience of using evidence-based practice to share insight, demonstrate value and influence change.
• Tech/digital savvy re tools and strong user of MS office

Benefits will include:

• Pension, AVIVA – minimum 5% employee, 7.5% employer
• Private Medical Insurance
• BUPA Health Assessments, after 2 years and every 3 years thereafter
• Group Life – x3 annual salary.
• High street and retail discount scheme (PLUXEE)
• Annual leave – 25 days plus 8 statutory days plus option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year.

All direct applications will be forwarded to our Recruitment Partner, Sullivan Brown.