We are seeking a Senior Industry Experience and Learning Manager to join a collaborative and ambitious Careers team. This is a new role that will provide strategic leadership for this area, bringing greater structure, consistency and scale across both curricular and co-curricular provision.

The postholder will define a clear Careers-led baseline offer and develop frameworks and models that enable high-quality experiential learning to be delivered across programmes. Working closely with academic and professional services colleagues, they will support the integration of industry experience across the student journey, ensuring all students benefit from meaningful opportunities that enhance skills development and progression.

If you’re motivated by leading and shaping real-world learning at scale, and thrive in a busy, evolving environment, this is a great opportunity to make a significant impact.

Please note, the position is a hybrid post and requires a minimum of 40% on-campus presence, 2 days a week in our Bush House, The Strand offices.

This is a full time post and appointments are standardly made at the bottom end of the salary scale, you will be offered an indefinite contract.

About you:

To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

Essential criteria

1. Significant experience designing and delivering experiential learning, employability or industry-facing programmes, including activities such as projects, internships, simulations or similar
2. Experience working with academic or equivalent stakeholders to shape provision within complex environments, demonstrating the ability to build engagement and alignment across diverse priorities
3. Demonstrable experience of leading complex initiatives across multiple stakeholders, balancing competing priorities and delivering outcomes
4. Experience of developing scalable models, frameworks or structured approaches, enabling delivery through others rather than direct ownership
5. Proven ability to translate strategic priorities into practical delivery models and approaches within complex organisational settings
6. Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to guide and enable others without direct authority
7. Experience of evaluating programmes or initiatives and using insight to improve effectiveness, quality and impact
8. Experience of line management, including supporting and developing staff and overseeing delivery through others

Desirable criteria

1. Experience working within a business school or higher education environment
2. Understanding of employer engagement, industry partnerships or recruitment practices
3. Experience of developing toolkits, templates or guidance to support delivery by others
4. Familiarity with employability, skills development or graduate outcomes frameworks
5. Experience of managing or influencing budget allocation or resource planning