Leadership Development Manager

Since its creation in 2014, Harbour has grown to become one of the world’s largest and most geographically diverse independent oil and gas companies.  Today, Harbour is producing c.450,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day with significant production in Norway, the UK, Germany, Argentina and North Africa. Harbour benefits from competitive operating costs and resilient margins, and a broad set of growth options including near-infrastructure opportunities in Norway, unconventional scalable opportunities in Argentina and conventional offshore projects in Mexico and Indonesia. With low GHG emissions intensity and a leading CO2 storage position in Europe, Harbour remains committed to producing oil and gas safely and responsibly to help meet the world’s energy needs. Harbour is headquartered in London with approximately 5,000 staff and contractors across its operations and offices. 

Ours is an inclusive workplace where individuals can bring their whole selves to their job and feel recognised for the value they add. We are committed to creating a genuinely inclusive and supportive working environment to ensure everyone has a positive experience at work.

At Harbour Energy, we aim to recruit, retain and promote our people based on their unique skills, regardless of race, gender or background. We need excellent people to help shape and develop the future of our company. Could this be you? If so, we want to hear from you.

Purpose of Role:

At harbour Energy we are committed to identifying, developing and progressing our people and earning their loyalty so we retain them within our organisation.  The Leadership Development Team Lead role plays a pivotal part in nurturing and developing leaders to be ready to rise to evolving market forces and changing business challenges.

This role is designed to:

• Foster a culture of continuous learning across our global leader community
• Develop and implement executive and leadership development interventions, aligned with Harbour’s strategic goals, values & behaviours, that enhance Global leadership capabilities across all leadership levels
• Assure an internal pipeline of leadership talent ready to fill business critical roles

Critical Responsibilities:

• Ensuring that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation and Harbour Energy HSES Procedures

Ethics and Compliance Responsibilities:    

• Ensure that all activities and behaviours are carried out in accordance with Harbour Energy’s Ethics and Compliance Policies and Procedures, and to complete any compulsory compliance training as required

Areas of Accountability, Responsibility and Competence:

• Learning Culture:  Foster a culture of learning agility where every leader is encouraged and supported to be open to new and smarter ways of leading their teams and the organisation as Harbour Energy responds to market opportunities and demands

• Talent intelligence:  Build developmental relationships with top talent to inform leadership development interventions
• Leadership Programmes: Develop and deliver high impact global leadership development programs tailored to the opportunities and challenges leaders face in delivering the strategic plan
• Succession Plan Solutions: Use talent analytics to implement development interventions that feed succession pipelines for business critical roles
• Coaching and Mentoring: Facilitate the provision of coaching and mentoring services to executives and senior leaders
• High Potential Programmes:  Develop and deliver development programmes for leadership HiPos at all levels
• Change Management: Support M&A activities by preparing leaders to lead others through change and personally thrive
• Executive Development: Source on demand executive development services
• Learning and Development Collaboration: Collaborate with the L&D team to ensure leadership development is aligned with overall learning strategies
• Leadership culture: Promote a culture of engagement and high performance by embedding Harbour’s values and behaviours in  leaders’ everyday practices
• External Talent Partners: Source and manage external talent partners to deliver high quality talent and leadership services
• Continuous improvement:  Drive quality evaluation and continuous improvement practices to ensure leadership development initiatives are best in class
• Health and Safety Environment: Ensure that all activities are carried out in a safe manner complying with all regulatory requirements, legislation, and Harbour Energy HSES procedures

Critical Skills:

Academic Qualifications:

• Degree in relevant field; further education or certifications in learning and talent management preferred

     Relevant Experience:

• Proven experience of leading leadership development within the oil and gas industry or a similar complex, technical environment
• Demonstrated Executive Development program design and delivery experience
• Executive coaching experience preferred
• Experience with HR systems preferred

• Experience of designing and implementing strategic leadership development programs that align with business objectives
• Experience in communicating with and influencing senior leaders, with the ability to engage and inspire leaders at all levels

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Inclusive recruitment is a vital part of our diversity, equity and inclusion strategy. Whatever your background, if you feel you need an adjustment during our selection process to suit your needs, please let us know, and we will be happy to help.

For further information or support on any of these points, please reach out to us at [email protected]