Our client:

Extremely successful hospitality brand with over 120 sites across the South East & Home Counties
Growing company with a focus on strategic expansion, operational excellence, and brand
Learning & Development Manager is a key role focused on the development of learning frameworks that align with business objectives and embed a culture of continuous learning and leadership development
Fantastic culture with a genuine care and focus on employees
Role is home based with travel one day a week (across SE, London and Home Counties)

The role:

As Learning & Development Manager you will have responsibility for the strategic development and delivery of the learning strategy and will manage operational training across all areas of the business.
The Learning & Development Manager will work with stakeholders across the business to enhance the learning culture through developing high quality training programs that are aligned with people and business objectives
Reporting to the People & Culture Director the Learning & Development Manager will identify skills gaps, capability requirements and priority development areas to ensure the development and support for the teams across the business
The Learning & Development Manager will design and deliver leadership programs to strengthen management capability, coaching skills and team performance
In the role the Learning & Development Manager will lead the roll out and success of a new digital learning platform (LMS) ensuring engaging, accessible user friendly content.
The Learning & Development Manager will maintain training records and will produce reports to be shared across the business.
Managing a Learning & Development Co-ordinator the Learning & Development Manager will also support 8 area trainers (report into operations)

Ideal candidate:

You will have strong proven experience in a learning and development role either from UK hospitality of from a food retail environment – this must be supporting a multi-site operation
For the Learning & Development Manager role you will have a strong understanding of adult learning principles along with learning design and delivery methodologies
You will have designed and delivered a leadership development program ideally with managers and assistant managers.
You will have experience of implementing or managing a digital learning platform (LMS)
It is essential that the Learning & Development Manager has fantastic coaching skills along with a proven track record in stakeholder management, engagement and communications
Essentially you will have a data driven mindset and will be focused on delivering ROI on training initiatives.
You will have excellent project management skills along with the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively
Being creatively aware and forward thinking you will thrive in a fast paced dynamic team focused environment that is successful through cross functional working to deliver shared objectives
The company is a significant business but is family owned and has a family feel and culture
Ideally you will have managed 1 person

Benefits & details:

Excellent package – up to £54,000 plus car and excellent benefits
Location = home based role with travel across the SE, Home counties and London 1 day a week. Occasionally there may be more travel

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