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Tesco • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City, UK

Learning Design Manager – Strategic Skills

Employment type:  Full time
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Job Description

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

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.

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.�

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.

We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone�s welcome. That�s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, click here for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.

Company benefits

25 days annual leave + bank holidays
Additional voluntary pension contribution
Adoption leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Annual bonus
Annual pay rises
Bike parking
Buy or sell annual leave
Car allowance
Charity donation scheme
Chill out zone
Cinema discounts
Coffee discounts
Collaboration spaces
Company car
Company freebies
Compassionate leave
Critical Illness Insurance
Cycle to work scheme
Death in service
Dental coverage
Discretionary sick pay
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Emergency leave
Employee assistance programme
Employee discounts – 10% off and 15% on pay day weekends
Employee phone programme
Enhanced maternity leave – 26 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced paternity leave – 6 weeks full pay (after 52 weeks service)
Enhanced pension match/contribution – up to 7.5% matching
Equity packages
Ergonomic workstations
Eye Care Support
Faith rooms
Family health insurance
Fertility treatment leave
Financial advice
Fully stocked snack cupboard
Gym membership
Health assessment
Health insurance
In house training
L&D budget
Learning license
Learning platform
Legal consults
Life assurance – Five times your pay
Life insurance
Lunch and learns
Meditation space
Menopause support
Mental health first aiders
Mental health platform access
Mentoring
Modern office
On-site barista
On-site catering
On-site gym
On-site personal trainer
On-site shower
On-site wellness room
On-site wellness services
On-site workout classes
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Optional unpaid leave
Paid fostering leave
Personal development budgets
Personal development days
Pregnancy loss leave
Private booths
Referral bonus
Religious celebration leave
Relocation packages
Restaurant discounts
Sabbaticals
Salary advance
Salary sacrifice
Secure on-site parking
Sensory-Friendly Setup
Share options
Skilled worker visas
Sports teams
Study support
Teambuilding days
Theme park discounts
Time off in-lieu
Tree planting
Volunteer days
Wellbeing incentive programme
Reservist leave

Working at Tesco

Company employees:

330,000+

Gender diversity (m:f):

49:51

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Ireland

United Kingdom

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