Learning Design Manager – Strategic Skills

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 6 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

The Learning Designer – Strategic Growth Skills plays a critical role in building the capabilities that will power the organisation’s future growth. 

This role focuses on designing and delivering learning solutions that build priority skills aligned to the organisation’s strategic objectives and skills framework. 

The role includes designing applied technical training across diverse areas, including but not limited to: AI, Data, Digital customer engagement and Health domains, enabling colleagues to build confidence and competence through hands-on practice. 

Working closely with senior stakeholders, functional leaders and subject matter experts, the role translates business priorities and emerging skill needs into high impact, scalable learning experiences that drive measurable capability uplift

You will be responsible for

Strategic Skills Design 

• Design learning solutions that build critical skills aligned to strategic growth priorities. 

• Translate business strategy, workforce plans and skills frameworks into clear capability outcomes and learning journeys for defined populations. 

• Identify current and future skill gaps using data, insight and stakeholder input, and design interventions to address them. 

Stakeholder Management & Business Partnering

• Act as a trusted learning partner to business leaders, capability owners and functional teams. 

• Partner with strategic workforce planning, OD, people teams and business stakeholders to identify, determine and validate skills requirements for defined areas. 

• Work closely with business stakeholders, functional leaders and capability owners to understand strategic priorities and performance challenges, assessing needs quickly and building relevant learning interventions at pace. 

• Influence and challenge constructively to ensure learning solutions are aligned to business impact, not just content delivery.

Skills Frameworks & Capability Building 

• Apply a strong understanding of skills frameworks, skills assessment to identify, validate and refine skill requirements across strategic areas connected to business outcomes.

• Support the definition, refinement and application of strategic skill definitions across diverse domains

Learning Design & Delivery 

• Create engaging, modern learning experiences using a blend of digital, experiential and on-the-job approaches to build proficiency levels in key skill areas and support colleagues progressing through proficiency levels to defined populations and varying intervention by domain. 

• Partnering with SME’s to translate technical concepts into clear, role-specific learning interventions. 

• Create hands-on applied learning through (labs, guided practice, sandboxes, walkthroughs, simulations or scenario-based tasks 

• Partner with external providers and internal experts where appropriate to accelerate capability building. Print Page 

• Support roll-out and adoption of learning interventions through champion networks, communities of practice and stakeholder communications to defined populations

Measurement & Impact 

• Define clear success measures linked to skill acquisition, application and business outcomes. 

• Use feedback, data and insight to continuously improve learning solutions and demonstrate value.

You will need

Strong experience of building learning interventions in technical areas or complex area. Experience designing enterprise level capability solutions, not just individual learning interventions. 

Significant experience in learning, capability or workforce development roles, with exposure to technical or specialist skill domains. 

• Demonstrable experience working with skills frameworks, capability models or workforce skills data 

• Excellent stakeholder management and business partnering skills, with the ability to influence at multiple levels 

• Ability to translate strategic priorities into practical impactful learning solutions 

• Strong learning design capability across digital, blended and experiential approaches 

• Strong learning agility and curiosity across 

• Experience of working across diverse areas 

• Flexible and adaptable to changing priorities. 

About us

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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