Capability Partner

Tesco Ireland; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company in the UK is seeking a Learning & Development Expert to lead the market capability strategy. You will work closely with senior stakeholders to influence market learning direction and conduct data-led learning needs analysis. Your role includes championing core learning offerings for colleagues and ensuring compliance with training requirements. The ideal candidate should have excellent consulting skills, strong business acumen, and the ability to drive change in a dynamic environment. This position offers a blended working week, combining office and remote work.

Benefits

Blended working week

Inclusive workplace

Diversity training

Qualifications

• Excellent consulting and critical analysis skills.
• Strong business and commercial acumen.
• Ability to present information to senior audiences compellingly.
• Courage to challenge existing practices.
• Strives for continuous improvement.
• Ability to embrace and drive change.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead market capability strategy.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to influence market learning direction.
• Conduct data-led learning needs analysis.
• Collaborate with Capability Partners for market needs alignment.
• Champion core learning offerings and ensure compliance.
• Contribute to a world-class Group PoE and Learning Services.

Skills

Consulting and critical analysis skills

Business and commercial acumen

Presentation skills

Change management

Diversity and Inclusion experience

Collaboration and communication

Job description

You will partner senior stakeholders to develop the strategic direction for the market capability plan, (what and how) by completing learning needs analysis to identify current and future capability needs across the group, feeding this into an overarching Group Tesco Capability strategy. Sitting within the Group Learning Services team and Market, you'll work closely with the other capability partners to ensure a standardised and consistent approach is applied to all learner audiences. You'll work closely with the Capability Design team and Tesco Business Solutions to shape, influence and own capability for your business area(s). You will be visible, responsive, challenging and effective at building relationships and influencing across the group. You'll be an L&D expert and take an 'outside-in' approach, always striving to maintain industry expertise.

Responsibilities

• Own and lead the market capability strategy inc. Learning Tech experience and governance, ensuring we remove duplication and drive learner consistency.
• Partner with senior stakeholders to develop and influence strategic direction for market learning for both the what and the how
• 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 Markets(s).
• Own 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.
• You live 20/80, ensuring your market(s) follow all governance processes and ruthlessly prioritise work in line with the group capability's plans and priorities. You take a cost-conscious approach to all budgetary decisions, sharing accountably 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 and Learning Services, 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.
• Follow the procurement policy to source external strategic partners that align to and support our group capability plan and priorities
• Champion and role model our Win Together behaviours, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group & actively driving a culture of learning.

Learning and Development design/deployment

• 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 to challenge
• Strives for continuous improvement, finding creative ways to achieve results
• Able 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
• Able to collaborate and communicate beyond your own team/function

At Tesco, our vision is to become every customer’s favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or on the move. Our core purpose is to serve our customers, communities, and the planet a little better every day.

At Tesco, we pride ourselves on having an inclusive culture where everyone can truly be themselves. This is embedded in our values: we treat people how they want to be treated. We celebrate diversity and recognize the value and opportunity it brings, ensuring our colleagues feel they can be themselves at work and are supported to be at their best.

We have embraced a blended working week, combining office and remote working. Our offices remain places for connection, collaboration, and innovation. We are committed to building an inclusive workplace that celebrates the cultures, personalities, and preferences of our colleagues, who in turn help build our business’s success and reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. Our stores are welcoming places for everyone, with colleagues trained to support those with visible or hidden disabilities through the Sunflower Lanyard programme.

As a large business with diverse roles and flexible working patterns, Tesco can find something that suits you. We celebrate diversity and welcome everyone. Our inclusive recruitment process ensures candidates can thrive and request any necessary adjustments. For more information on accessibility support, visit Tesco Careers Accessibility.

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