Vice President Talent and Organisational Effectiveness

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Vice President Talent and Organisational Effectiveness Civil Aerospace

Derby or London (Hybrid - min 3 days on site)

Full Time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Vice President Talent and Organisational Effectiveness to join the Civil Aerospace Team in Derby or London.

The VP Talent & Organisational Effectiveness is accountable for shaping and delivering the talent organisation design and workforce strategy for Civil Aerospace.

This role ensures the business has the leadership capability organisational structure and workforce model required to deliver performance and long-term growth.

Acting as a strategic partner to the Civil Aerospace leadership team the role focuses on organisational effectiveness leadership capability and transformation aligning people processes and strategy to enable sustainable execution.

What you will be doing:

Strategic Partnership & Execution

• Act as a strategic partner to the Civil Aerospace leadership team aligning people priorities with business strategy and performance outcomes
• Ensure organisational goals operating models and structures are aligned to enable sustainable execution and growth
• Bring challenge insight and perspective to leadership discussions influencing key business decisions
• Translate enterprise people priorities into practical scalable solutions for the business

Organisational Effectiveness & Design

• Diagnose organisational challenges and lead organisation design and effectiveness interventions
• Align structures governance and ways of working to improve performance collaboration and accountability
• Use data and insight to identify organisational trends and drive continuous improvement
• Develop and deploy playbooks tools and frameworks to enable consistent execution across the business

Talent & Workforce Strategy

• Strengthen the talent supply chain improving succession bench strength for leadership and critical roles
• Define and deliver build buy borrow strategies to close capability gaps
• Lead strategic workforce planning to ensure future capability and capacity requirements are met

Leadership & Capability Development

• Coach senior leaders to improve decision-making leadership effectiveness and team performance
• Embed leadership expectations and behaviours aligned to business priorities
• Support leadership teams in navigating complex and sensitive challenges strengthening overall capability

Transformation & Delivery

• Lead the delivery of people and organisational initiatives supporting business transformation
• Develop and oversee execution plans timelines and governance ensuring delivery against priorities
• Coordinate activity across HR specialist teams and People Partners to ensure aligned and integrated delivery

Culture Engagement & Performance

• Promote a positive high-performance culture aligned to our Purpose & Behaviours
• Use engagement wellbeing and organisational data to diagnose issues and drive targeted action plans
• Ensure leaders are equipped to create environments where people can perform at their best

Stakeholder & Governance

• Provide clear regular updates on progress to senior stakeholders and governance forums
• Ensure alignment across HR and business stakeholders acting as a connector across specialist teams and the business
• Operate as a trusted advisor at senior level with strong credibility and influence

Preferred requirements:

• Significant experience in talent organisation effectiveness and workforce strategy within a complex global environment
• Proven ability to operate as a strategic partner to senior leadership teams
• Strong experience in organisation design workforce planning and transformation delivery
• Ability to translate strategy into practical scalable execution
• Strong data-driven mindset using insight to inform decisions and drive outcomes
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills at executive level
• Proven experience of driving D&I across talent leadership and organisational strategy.

Why join Rolls-Royce

At Rolls-Royce we are proud to be a business that has truly helped to shape the modern world and are committed to always being a force for progress; powering protecting and connecting people everywhere.

By joining Rolls-Royce youll have the opportunity to work on world-class solutions supported by a culture that believes individuality is our greatest strength and all perspectives experiences and backgrounds help us innovate and enable our high-performance culture.

We offer excellent development opportunities a competitive salary and exceptional benefits. These include bonus employee support assistance and employee discounts.

Our vision is to ensure that the excellence and ingenuity that shaped our history continues into our future. Our multi-year transformation programme aims to turn Rolls-Royce into a high-performing competitive resilient and growing company. Join us and it can be your future vision too.

Rolls-Royce are committed to being a respectful inclusive and non-discriminatory workplace where individuality is valued diverse perspectives fuel innovation and everyone can thrive.

Please be aware that the priority will be given to employees identified as being athigh risk. The professional level and salary of the position will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful candidate but is anticipated to be Level B.

This job is advertised at the grades shown and this is the desired operating level for this role. We encourage applications from candidates with relevant experience from any grade.

It is advised that you inform your current manager of your application for this role.

Closing Date: Midnight 8th May 2026

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