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Job description
Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Director of Talent Development.
About us
CFO Insights is Northern Europe’s largest CFO forum and aims to connect and develop CFOs, finance leaders, and tomorrow's innovators by addressing the issues of the future CFO. We are connecting more than 11,000 professionals from more than 15 countries.
CFO Insights is part of United Media which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.
What we offer you
As our Director of Talent Development you get the unique opportunity of being a key driver of our exponential growth curve. You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:
- Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.
- Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.
- Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.
- Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.
- Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.
Your Responsibilities
Responsibilities in this job will vary as a reflection of the evolving business needs however, they will be mostly centred around:
- Building the most progressive learning and development opportunity for team members across levels of experience.
- Thinking progressively about how we can achieve our ambitious company goals through equipping our amazing employees with the right tools to achieve their goals.
- Developing and implementing strategic plans for learning and development, including identifying training needs and developing training programs to address them.
- Creating development programs that empower the team to continuously overdeliver and deliver 7-star experiences across business areas.
- Identifying and driving synergies across business functions.
- To dream big and pursue it relentlessly!
What we expect from you
We are looking for experienced business managers to help us reach our objectives. Industry experience is not a requirement, but you do need to be highly ambitious, forward-thinking and driven to inspire and lead our team. Furthermore, having a UK work permit is also a requirement.
Furthermore, we are looking for candidates who:
- Have a relentless drive and desire to be the very best at what they do;
- Possess and unparalleled work ethic with a high sense of urgency;
- Take ownership of everything they do, are proactive and follow through on commitments;
- Are curious about people and love to speak, build and nurture relations;
- Are an excellent communicator (especially) verbally and in writing;
- Are well-organised and display the ability to structure and prioritise their work.
Startdate
Flexible
Monday - Friday we work from our office (next to Victoria Station) and do not offer remote work.
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