Capability Partner

Tesco; Welwyn Garden City; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retailer is seeking an experienced Learning and Development professional to join their team in Welwyn Garden City. In this role, you will lead the market capability strategy, partner with senior stakeholders, and ensure a consistent learning journey for colleagues. Ideal candidates will possess strong analytical skills and a passion for driving change. The position offers a competitive salary and excellent benefits, ensuring a supportive and inclusive work environment.

Benefits

Competitive Salary

Life Assurance

Pension Scheme

Bonus Scheme

GP service

24/7 Employee Assistance Programme

Colleague Clubcard discount

Annual leave starting at 23 days

Qualifications

• Excellent skills in consulting and critical analysis.
• Ability to present data compellingly to a senior audience.
• Capacity to embrace and drive change effectively.

Responsibilities

• Lead and own the market capability strategy.
• Partner with stakeholders to influence strategic direction.
• Conduct robust data-driven learning needs analysis.
• Collaborate with other Capability Partners for market alignment.

Skills

Learning and Development design/deployment

Excellent consulting and critical analysis skills

Strong business and commercial acumen

Courage to challenge

Diversity and Inclusion experience

Job description

Tesco Ireland • Gresham House or Welwyn Garden City • Temporary • Apply by 15-Dec-2025

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.

What is in it for you

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren't limited to:

• Competitive Salary
• Life Assurance
• Pension Scheme*
• Bonus Scheme*
• Our Virtual GP service provides free and confidential access to an online GP through video GP consultations, and online prescription service for colleagues. The service is also available to families of colleagues who live at the same address for a reduced cost.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and family members for in the moment emotional support along with free access to a range of wellbeing services supporting you under our new Wellbeing First approach of Body, Mind and Life.
• Colleague Clubcard offering 10% discount across stores and online, with 15% discount weekends once a month (Friday to Sunday), and 20% off twice a year. There is also 20% off F&F clothing, all year long, these various discounts can be extended to a family member with a 2nd Clubcard available.*
• Annual leave starting at 23 days
• Save As You Earn Scheme*

*Entry requirements and rules of the scheme apply

You will be responsible for

• 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-conscientious 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.

You will need

• 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

About us

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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