Leadership Development Manager

Tesco PLC; Digswell; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail company is seeking a strategic leader in leadership development. This role involves designing and delivering group-wide strategies that enhance culture and capabilities among leadership. The ideal candidate should possess significant experience in developing senior leaders, proven exec-level stakeholder management skills, and a track record in driving cultural and behavioral change initiatives. A commitment to inclusion and agile responsiveness to business needs is essential.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in leadership development for senior leaders.
• Ability to influence and drive engagement at exec level.
• Proven track record in cultural change and learning design.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of a leadership development strategy.
• Deliver content across a range of learning formats.
• Champion inclusion and drive cultural change across Tesco.

Skills

End to end leadership development

Exec level stakeholder management

Cultural and behavioural change

Diversity and inclusion

Learning design

Job description

In this role you will lead the design and delivery of a group wide leadership development strategy for Tesco, that equips leaders with the right skills, behaviours to deliver our strategic priorities, lead an inclusive and high performing culture. With significant experience in end to end leadership development for senior leaders, alongside experience of creating and implementing aligned and meaningful development strategies that enhance Tesco culture, you'll be a thought leader in this area and be able to balance a more strategic perspective with delivery of future fit solutions. You'll need proven Exec level stakeholder management experience and will be able to influence and drive engagement and agreement for group wide programmes of work. 1. The successful delivery of an innovative and leading edge leadership development offer that cultivates an inclusive, high performing and future focused culture. 2. Building future capabilities skills and values required of our leadership population, ensuring a sustainable and high quality and value add learning offer is developed. Use latest thinking and external insight / connections to inform the work, ensuring best in class interventions. 3. Leading and managing the core director learning curriculum, which includes director's induction. To deliver content that aligns to our biggest opportunities and strategic priorities 4. Deliver and facilitate online and face to face learning events with senior stakeholders and leaders across the group. 5. Contribution to the overall leadership, talent development and culture strategy, designed to ensure we build strong pipelines of leaders for now and the future, in service of our long-term strategic priorities.

• Support the broader delivery of the group capability strategy and wider PoE, aligning leadership development and culture to our core manager and colleague learning offer. alongside working with OD, SWP and Learning Services in order to realise our long term vision for learning at Tesco.
• Embed Inclusion into everything we do, aligning our leadership and culture plans to the group DE&I strategy, ensuring delivery of shared priorities.
• Champion and role model our Win Together behaviours and values, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group, building solutions that will drive cultural change across Tesco and actively drive a learning culture.
• Critically review and evaluate existing development solutions and make sound recommendations for changes. Share evaluation data back with relevant stakeholders
• Partner across markets and with senior stakeholders to ensure the central management development offer is embedded effectively across all markets
• Work with learning tech / tech teams to ensure all content is inclusive and accessible, and support and inform the long term learning tech plans.
• Engage and manage relationships with external partners in line with internal standard process, ensuring they deliver value for money
• Be agile and responsive to the changing needs of the business and colleagues we serve
• Setting group wide strategies and gaining engagement, buy-in and sign off at exec level
• Proven cultural and behavioural change experience across the whole learning cycle LNA, design, delivery and evaluation at senior leadership level
• Strong learning design across a variety of formats and levels - virtual, blended, online, both working with suppliers and building in-house solutions
  Proven understanding of diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities
• Demonstrable knowledge of current leadership and exec development interventions, providers and thought leaders in common areas of leadership (finance, commercial acumen etc)
• Senior stakeholder management, in particular building trusted relationships with a diverse group of international stakeholders
• Ability to think beyond the here and now - connecting learning to the wider business context.