Capability Partner - Job Share (3 days)

What’s in it for you

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• Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
• Private medical insurance
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 4 weeks fully paid paternity leave
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing

About the role

At Tesco, we believe in the power of spending more time together, face to face, than apart. So, during your working week, you can expect to spend 60% of your time in one of our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. We also recognise that life looks a little different for each of us. Some people are at the start of their careers, some want the freedom to do the things they love. Others are going through life-changing moments like becoming a carer, nearing retirement, adapting to parenthood, or something else. That’s why at Tesco, we always welcome a conversation about flexible working. So, talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

You will be responsible for

As a Capability Partner, you will collaborate with senior stakeholders to define the strategic direction for functional learning. Your role involves identifying current and future capability needs, contributing to the overarching Group Tesco Capability strategy alongside fellow Capability Partners within the PoE. Additionally, you’ll work closely with the Capability Design team and Tesco Business Services (TBS) to shape, influence, and take ownership of capability development for your specific business area. Your approach will be visible, responsive, and influential as you build strong relationships across the organisation.

• Partner senior stakeholders (WL5) to influence and develop strategic direction for functional learning for both the what and the how from a Group perspective
• Lead robust, data led learning needs analysis to develop and deliver prioritised market focused capability plans, which ensure the right skills and behaviours to deliver both market and central strategic priorities
• Work collaboratively with other Capability Partners to ensure a rounded view of market-needs within functional plans and vice versa. Drives value through business-wide learning offerings to ensure a consistent approach is taken across all learning products and platforms
• Partner with people business partners, talent partners and POE teams to ensure end to end alignment to the overall colleague experience
• Champion the core learning offer for colleagues, managers and leaders, influencing the business to adopt the core offer and ensure a seamless learning experience for all colleagues within their function(s) across the Group
• Being responsible for owning any safe and legal training specific to your market and will be responsible for working with TBS to create content to keep the business compliant
• Live 20/80, ensuring your function(s) follow all governance processes and ruthlessly prioritise work in line with the group capability's plans and priorities
• Take a cost-conscious approach to all budgetary decisions, sharing accountability on budget decisions and ensuring we follow group capability budgeting priorities within the work we deliver in functions
• Contribute to establishing a world class Group PoE within Capability, continuously striving to bring outside- in thinking and are passionate about ensuring the learner experience is at the heart of what you do
• Own and lead the market capability strategy inc. Learning Tech experience and governance, ensuring we remove duplication and drive learner consistency
• Champion and role model our Win Together behaviours, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group and actively driving a culture of learning

You will need

• A background in operations - For example, retail, distribution, manufacturing or hospitality
• Senior stakeholder engagement and influencing ability, in particular building strategic trusted relationships with a diverse group of international stakeholders
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge of latest learning rends and how people learn 
• Proven understanding of diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities
• Demonstrable knowledge of learning and development interventions and providers
• Learning and Development expertise
• Strategic Business Partnering
• Excellent consulting and critical analysis skills
• Strong business and commercial acumen
• Able to present information and data to a senior audience in a compelling way
• Courage and initiative to challenge
• Strive for continuous improvement, finding creative ways to achieve results
• Ability to embrace and drive change
• Ability to balance high level perspective with pragmatic approach
• Learning/Cultural / behavioural change theories into practice
• Diversity and Inclusion experience
• Ability to collaborate and communicate beyond your own team/function

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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.

Diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) at Tesco means that whoever you are and whatever your background, we always want you to feel represented and that you can be yourself at work. In short, we’re a place where Everyone’s Welcome. We’re proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we’re committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please click here.

We’re a big business and we can offer a range of diverse full-time & part-time working patterns across our many business areas, which means that we can find something that works for you.  We work in a more blended pattern -combining office and remote working.  Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate.