Music is Universal
It’s the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world’s leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does. Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation. We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email . People Inclusion and Culture
‘We are here to amplify our people: attracting the best talent, fostering a culture of excellence and elevating our teams to make memorablemusic and meaningful change.’The Role: The role of the L&OD Manager (Programme) is to work closely with the L&OD team, wider PIC team and respective client groups to cultivate and create a Learning Culture at Universal Music Holdings Limited. You will design, develop, lead, and manage all elements of Universal Music Holding Limited’s developmental programmes for all UK based Employees. You will analyse, review, and enhance this based on feedback and data insights (UK and Global) – you will work with the curriculum L&OD manager to develop marketing to highlight what is on offer across the organisation through a developed and comprehensive engagement plan, attracting new talent and developing employees. this is a 12 month FTC starting August 2025 & finishing July 2026 Part time, 4 days a week
The Responsibilities:
- Live the People team purpose, vision and mission and exhibit behaviours that align to our Company values.
- Effectively influence, coach, and guide senior business leaders to achieve their individual and company goals ensuring the feedback is provided at relevant points.
- Own all programmatic development of employees, including but not limited to:
- Management Development Programmes.
- Leadership Development Programmes.
- DEIB (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging) Programmes.
- Work with external experts and accreditation services to ensure all programmes are of the highest industry standards.
- Take insight from analytics from business requirements, learning needs analysis and engagement and experience survey data and evoke person and business needs through programme learning.
- Collaborate closely with L&D Manager (Curriculum) to deliver on L&OD strategy, develop annual calendar and marketing / communication and engagement plan and measure the success of curriculum and programmatic development.
- Work with Director of L&OD to forecast and manage L&OD curriculum and plans in line with agreed budget.
- Intentionally ensure our L&OD initiatives align with the business strategy, the people plan over the relevant period, reinforces creating a psychologically safe and a mature workforce, and cultivates a strong sense of belonging.
- Ensure programme strategies are inclusive of employee workday use and experience, online eLearning and global online offering.
- Work closely with PIC colleagues and run combined projects, including but not limited to onboarding, internships, apprenticeships, emerging talent initiatives, neurodiversity, Women in A&R, career development and retention.
- Ensure L&OD offering is regularly assessed and measured through qualitative and quantitative data and analytics.
- Work with L&OD team to develop marketing strategies for PIC initiatives to enhance employee awareness, engagement, and experience – raise the profile of PIC team to be best in the industry.
- Facilitate sessions and deliver impactful courses and programmes.
- Offer key insights and learnings from connected internal and external networks that enhance the organisations development.
- Where appropriate, share key learnings and programmes with our non-UK PIC colleagues and the Global LOD function, working with them to tailor materials to meet their local needs within a wider global framework.
- Work with L&OD Director and wider team on delivering L&OD reporting.
Just So You Know… The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement.
Job Category: People, Inclusion & Culture
