HR - what's in it for me?
In-house roles which lead the way in which training and development is organised within a business. The role tends to be commercial in nature, as they are usually budget holding roles where strategic procurement decisions have to be made with regard to external training suppliers and the very nature of the mix between internal infrastructure and external supply. They will look to meet the training and development needs of the organisation with consideration to optimising the highest quality/best value equation.
These roles also have an ambassadorial and account management aspect, as the Training & Development Manager/Director will need to get close to the key stakeholders in the business to understand what issues the business may need resolving and then sell how Training & Development can add value to the business in solving these issues. The more strategic and central Training and Development is to an organisation, the more a Training and Development Director will be looking to create competitive advantage for the business by instilling leading edge practices and benchmarking themselves against their competitors. It is not unusual to find Training and Development Directors in knowledge sector businesses to be on basic salaries of around £100,000 p.a.
