Do you want to make change happen by joining a team that never stands still?
Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?
Join our Learning & Development Team
Softcat's Learning & Development team sits within a wider People & Property department consisting of People Operations, People Business Partners, Reward, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Engagement. The purpose of the L&D team is to champion a learning culture that empowers employees to reach their potential and drive high performance at Softcat. The L&D team plays an influential part in our business, ensuring that Softcat succeeds through our people
Success. The Softcat Way.
It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.
Empowering enterprise sales enablement through strategic learning and development
As a Senior Learning & Development Consultant, this role supports enterprise‑level sales teams and strategy, requiring proven experience in driving improved sales capability and outcomes. You will work autonomously across competing priorities, balancing tactical and strategic delivery while flexing between individual contribution and leveraging internal or external support. This role sits within a high‑growth, culture‑driven business with strong senior leadership sponsorship and a workforce highly engaged in development.
As a Senior Learning & Development Consultant, you'll be responsible for:
- Partnering with senior sales stakeholders to understand capability needs, business priorities, and performance goals, taking a consultative approach to uncover root causes and manage expectations
- Designing, delivering, and owning learning solutions end‑to‑end, from concept through to measurable business impact, using modern learning approaches aligned to 70/20/10
- Building clear business cases for learning investment, articulating desired outcomes, ROI/ROE, timelines, and providing impact and improvement reporting to support continuous improvement
- Delivering high‑impact coaching and facilitation across 1‑to‑1 and group settings, virtually and face‑to‑face, while flexing between direct delivery and internal or external support
- Managing learning partners through QBRs, sourcing and onboarding new partners where required, ensuring effectiveness, value for money, and impact
- Contributing to and leading strategic business projects, representing L&D to deliver agreed outcomes while balancing competing priorities and stakeholder demands
We'd love you to have
- Experience enabling or working alongside enterprise sales teams, with the ability to design learning that supports performance and growth is desirable
- Proven experience delivering impactful learning solutions and partnering with senior stakeholders to align development with business priorities
- Confident working autonomously across multiple priorities, balancing strategic thinking with strong delivery
- Strong understanding of modern learning design, with the ability to measure impact and use data to drive continuous improvement
- A collaborative, growth‑minded team player with excellent communication and presentation skills, comfortable delivering learning virtually and in person, with flexibility to travel within the UK
We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!
Work in a way that works for you
We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:
- Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
- Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
- Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs
Working with us
Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.
Join us
To become part of the success story, please apply now.
If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/
Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.
