Leadership Development Partner

Starling Bank

Leadership Development Partner at Starling Bank, leading leadership development initiatives and enhancing team performance through strategic program design. Fostering a culture of shared wisdom and effective leadership.

Posted 4/13/2026full-timeLondon • 🇬🇧 United KingdomSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Extensive People Programme design and delivery preferably from a large scale professional environment (e.g. FMCG, Tech, Banking, Retail)
Co-design, implement, and enhance leadership development initiatives that drives Starling’s leaders to be world-class leaders
Deploy diagnostic tools to assess the alignment, and performance of teams.
Create and facilitate high-impact team effectiveness sessions (off-sites, workshops) that improve alignment, collaboration, trust and performance.
Act as a coach for teams and individuals, observing dynamics and providing real-time feedback to help teams navigate change and drive performance
Collaborate in building coaching/mentoring programmes and peer-to-peer learning networks within the leadership population to foster a culture of shared wisdom and enterprise leadership development
Build strong relations with Senior People Partners to co-create and deliver effective solutions to teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant experience in both leadership development and OD/Team Effectiveness.
Experience in designing, delivering, and evaluating high-impact leadership programs
Proven influencing and co-creating skills to partner across the organisation, regardless of reporting lines
Expert facilitation skills with the ability to ‘read a room’
Ability to balance creating high impact strategic programmes with a flexible, ‘hands-on’ delivery approach at pace
Experience operating within a scaling organisation or the FinTech sector
Experience in using AI in Leadership Development programmes or a passion for using AI and technology
Certification in psychometric and organisational effectiveness tools
Experience in supporting large-scale change programmes

Benefits

Comp & perks

25 days holiday (plus take your public holiday allowance whenever works best for you)
An extra day’s holiday for your birthday
Annual leave is increased with length of service, and you can choose to buy or sell up to five extra days off
16 hours paid volunteering time a year
Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme
Life insurance at 4x your salary
Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth including mental health support and cancer care. Partner benefits include discounts with Waitrose, Mr&Mrs Smith and Peloton
Generous family-friendly policies
Perkbox membership giving access to retail discounts, a wellness platform for physical and mental health, and weekly free and boosted perks
Access to initiatives like Cycle to Work and Salary Sacrificed Gym partnerships

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Hard Skills & Tools

leadership developmentorganizational developmentteam effectivenessprogram designprogram deliveryprogram evaluationfacilitation skillspsychometric toolsAI in leadership developmentchange management

Soft Skills

influencing skillsco-creating skillscollaborationtrust buildingcoachingmentoringreal-time feedbackrelationship buildingobservational skillsflexibility

Certifications

certification in psychometric toolscertification in organizational effectiveness tools