Leadership Development Manager

Tesco UK; Welwyn Garden City; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading supermarket and technology company in the United Kingdom is seeking a Leadership Development Lead. In this role, you will design and implement a leadership strategy that fosters an inclusive and high-performing culture. You will work with senior stakeholders to deliver innovative development solutions and ensure alignment with broader strategic priorities. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in leadership development for senior leaders and proven ability to influence and engage at the Exec level.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Inclusive recruitment process

Professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Proven Exec level stakeholder management experience.
• Experience in end-to-end leadership development.
• Knowledge of current leadership and exec development interventions.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design of a group-wide leadership development strategy.
• Deliver and facilitate learning events for senior stakeholders.
• Review and evaluate existing development solutions for improvement.

Skills

Senior leadership experience

Stakeholder management

Design thinking

Diversity and inclusion expertise

Cultural change leadership

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Talent and Capability Practice of Expertise (PoE).

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.

You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.

At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.

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