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Group Learning and Development Designer

Job Reference tesco/TP/12955979/789690

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Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Permanent
Salary:
Competitive
Working Hours:
36
Location:
Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City
Closing Date:
11/09/2023
Job Category:
People
Business Unit:
GB Head Office

What’s in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work! These include but aren’t limited to:

  • Annual bonus scheme 
  • Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus 8 Bank holidays)
  • Retirement savings plan - save between 4% and 7.5% and Tesco will match your contribution
  • Life Assurance - 5 x contractual pay
  • Great colleague deals and discounts, saving you money on everyday purchases, eating out and utility bills for the home
  • Opportunities to get on - take advantage of our ongoing learning opportunities and award-winning training, to help you achieve the job and career you want

Click here to read more about the benefits we have available for our colleagues

About the role

As a Capability Designer, you'll lead the scoping, design and development of strategically aligned learning solutions for colleagues and managers across the Tesco group. Building blended solutions that that equip colleagues and managers with the right skills, behaviours and values to deliver our strategic priorities. With significant experience in blended, innovative learning design, you'll be able to balance a more strategic perspective, with a pragmatic approach in providing expert advice and suggesting creative solutions to colleague and manager development gaps.

The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Louise Cavanagh

You will be responsible for

• Contribute to the creation of a capability strategy that builds critical colleague and manager capabilities for now and in the future (both skills and behaviours) 
• Translate data informed development needs into learning solutions that align to key initiatives at a strategic level
• Use your experience of developing critical capabilities to curate and/or design leading-edge learning interventions in partnership with external experts and stakeholders from across the business - using creativity, latest thinking and technology to enhance the learner experience
•Managing end to end complex learning design to address develop needs, utilising a variety of learning formats, (digital, F2F, video etc). Being the SME on design content, drawing on external thinking to create sustainable and leading edge solutions. 
•Work across all markets to ensure products are researched and designed to be fit for purpose and sustainable across the group. 
• Work with TBS to develop the right blend of solutions that help our colleagues and managers to build their ability to self-serve on learning 
• Be accountable for ensuring centrally owned development programmes are designed and delivered within agreed timescales and budget
• Act as the SME for core learning products, ensuring the right level of engagement, sign off and sign up across all markets and areas in the Tesco group 
• Work in partnership with delivery teams to build trainer capability and understanding of products by running pilots and train the trainers for new material
• Partner across markets and with senior stakeholders, acting as a credible expert providing advice and recommendations on leading edge development solutions to support bespoke development needs
• Support the sign off and engagement of new learning solutions - both inside of the people team and across the business 
• Work with subject matter experts across the business to ensure both the what and how (skills and behaviours) are incorporated into learning solutions, ensuring the best learning experience for colleagues and managers (contributing to the delivery of an offer that is simple, accessible and consistent across the group) 
• Ensure we strive for a learner lead, simple and accessible group capability offer that is data led and supports our strategic priorities
• Work seamlessly across the people operating model and wider capability PoE (UK, Group & TBS) to respond to the changing needs of the business in an agile manner whilst always keeping the learner experience at the heart of everything we do. 
• Maintain expertise and continued professional development, be a thought leader in your space and strive for continuous improvement across the capability catalogue,  
• Use data & analytics to critically review and evaluate existing development solutions. Present data in a compelling way to report back to the business, make recommendations for improvements and support future business cases.
• Championing and role modelling our Win Together behaviours, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group & actively driving a culture of learning.

You will need

Operational skills relevant for this job:

• Skills and behavioural blended and innovative learning design for colleagues through to store managers 
• Cultural / behavioural change theories into practice  
• Growth mindset and change agility essential 
• Diversity and Inclusion experience 
• Strong facilitation (across all levels) 
• Excellent consulting and critical analysis skills
• Strong commercial acumen
• Able to collaborate and communicate beyond your own team/function
• Able to present information and data to a senior audience in a compelling way
• Strives for continuous improvement, finding creative ways to achieve results
• Able to embrace and drive change 
• Courage to challenge 
• Ability to balance high level perspective with pragmatic approach

Experience relevant for this job:

• Creative, end to end learning needs analysis and blended learning design 
• Strong learning design across a variety of formats and levels - virtual, blended, online, using latest thinking and approaches 
• Proven ability to bring external best practice into Tesco - strong external network and a focus on CPD is important 
• Expert understanding of diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities 
• Knowledge and experience of both technical and behavioural learning design 
• Strong network of talent / development specialist to draw on external best practice 
• Senior stakeholder management, in particular building trusted relationships with a diverse group of international stakeholders
• Able to demonstrate knowledge of latest learning trends and how people learn
• Ability to think beyond the here and now - connecting learning to the wider business context.

About us

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is ‘Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day’. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.