People Development Advisor

Progression. See it our way.

People Development Advisor

Location: Stirling/Flexible or hybrid working options

Challenges. Opportunities. Solutions. At Robertson, we see them our way. We’re bold enough to ask questions. Brave enough to look at things differently. Confident enough to be ourselves. Join us and you’ll join the UK’s largest family-owned construction, infrastructure, and support services business. And as People Development Advisor, you’ll be part of a team that’s doing incredible things – for ourselves, for the built environment around us, and for a truly sustainable future.

In this role you will advise and support our senior leaders and people leaders to help build organisational and individual capability. You will help shape behaviours and structures that contribute to our purpose of achieving a sustainable future. Driving and supporting a high-performance culture that reinforces the Robertson Way.

Leading on all learning and development activity to ensure employees are set up for success and able to support the current and future needs of the organisation. Working in collaboration with the Early Careers Development Advisor to ensure cohesion across approaches for the different populations within our organisation.

• Work in collaboration with the Early Careers Development Advisor to design and deliver an effective L&D approach, which enhances the knowledge, skills, and behaviours of employees to improve individual performance, enable progression and meet organisational goals
• Support performance development cycle, providing appropriate communication, guidance, and insights reporting
• Further development and embedding of our core and leadership behavioural frameworks
• Creation and maintenance of a learning library to help support employee development
• Support succession planning conversations at business unit/regional level
• Conduct learning needs analyses
• Maximise usage and potential of eLearning platform (gather metrics and data to share in board reports)
• Define professional career development pathways
• Advise on leadership and management development approaches, establishing needs for internal programmes (delivered by external partners), submitting proposals

As part of a new team, the People Development Advisor will have worked within a fast paced, transformational HR team. You’ll have knowledge and experience of learning needs analysis, along with insight in to career pathways and current best practice trends. With exceptional attention to detail and the ability to focus on delivery and creating impact, this is a varied role for a confident L&D professional.

In return, we offer a wide range of rewards and benefits, including 33 days annual leave, a great pension and valuable life assurance. What’s more, you’ll also be able to make the most of a range of brilliant extras. These include our Cycle to Work Scheme, discounts at restaurants and cinemas with a Taste Card, annual flu vaccine, and Health & Wellbeing and Life Management Support for you and your family.

We also have a brilliant smarter working policy, too. That means many of our office based people and some of our site based people are able to either work from home or as part of our hybrid model.

When it comes to diversity and inclusion, we see things differently at Robertson. That’s why we’re working hard to create an environment where everyone can feel welcome, and where we can all be ourselves. We encourage applications from people of all races, ages, genders, religions, sexual orientations and more – so whoever you are, we hope you’ll see things our way, too.

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If you’ve got what it takes to look at things differently, to find new perspectives, and to discover the extraordinary within the ordinary, we’d love to meet you.

To apply for this role and to start seeing things our way, submit your CV on our careers site.

We offer flexible working to support you and provide you the right environment and work/ life balance.