Training Specialist

Warburtons; Bolton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Profit share opportunity

Extra week of annual leave

Award-winning pension scheme

Life assurance and health benefits

Discounts on products

Continued investment in personal development

Fully stocked kitchens

Job summary

A leading food company in Bolton is seeking a Training Specialist to design and deliver technical training programmes. The ideal candidate will have extensive bakery knowledge, project management experience, and exceptional communication skills. This full-time position offers opportunities for personal development and attractive benefits. Join us in empowering our teams to maintain product excellence.

Qualifications

• Excellent technical bakery knowledge required.
• Experience in a technical role including interaction with senior management.
• Thorough understanding of the Chorleywood bread making process.
• Strong relationship-building and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver technical training programmes.
• Manage lifecycle of the imPROVE programme.
• Lead learning needs analyses and identify training gaps.
• Collaborate with experts to create training content.

Skills

Technical bakery knowledge

Excellent communication skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Training design

Relationship-building skills

Education

Food Technology/Technical qualification at HND/BSc level

Tools

Microsoft applications

Job description

Overview

Training Specialist role at Warburtons

Join us to apply for the Training Specialist role at Warburtons. At Warburtons, quality is at the heart of everything we do. Our strategy focuses on delivering unbeatable freshness, consistent excellence, and trusted products through continuous improvement and strong partnerships. We’re committed to baking the best for every customer, every day.

Are you passionate about empowering people through training? In this role, you'll drive the design, delivery, and ongoing improvement of technical training programmes that support the Warburtons Quality Strategy and enable the delivery of unbeatable quality products. You’ll identify the right training solutions to build essential skills and knowledge across the business ensuring our teams are equipped to deliver excellence every day.

Responsibilities

• Design, deliver, and continuously improve technical training programmes that support the Warburtons Quality Strategy and enable outcome-focused, high-quality production.
• Manage the full lifecycle of the imPROVE programme, expanding its reach to additional product platforms and ensuring materials remain relevant and aligned with business needs.
• Act as the primary contact for bakery workplace assessors, maintaining a robust network of assessors and ensuring consistent communication, updates, and support.
• Lead learning needs analyses, identify gaps, and develop innovative, engaging, and pragmatic training solutions.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to translate requirements into creative, business-focused training content; organise product knowledge packs to support innovation and launches.
• Deliver high-quality training courses up to senior management level, manage logistics and documentation, and use the Learning Hub to promote and host offerings; conduct post-course evaluations and classroom observations to drive improvement.
• Build external relationships with industry bodies, stay ahead of bakery trends, and advise on emerging technologies and business cases for new initiatives.
• Work with Centre Quality SLT and function Heads to identify talent and development opportunities; ensure training provision aligns with long-term business goals.

Qualifications

• Excellent technical bakery knowledge, preferably with a Food Technology/Technical qualification at HND/BSc level or equivalent.
• Experience in a technical role at site level, including interaction with a senior management team.
• Experience in project management and stakeholder management.
• Thorough understanding of the Chorleywood bread making process.
• Understanding of Apprenticeship standards and T Levels relevant to the technical function.
• Experience in training design and delivery with ability to design innovative solutions.
• Excellent communication skills across verbal, written, and presentation formats.
• Strong relationship-building skills with internal and external contacts at all levels.
• Strong requirements gathering skills and ability to identify key messages.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft applications for design and delivery of training materials and schedules.
• Team player with ability to work with diverse groups.
• Mentor skills with experience motivating people directly and indirectly.
• Commercial awareness of balancing manufacturing costs and quality.
• Ability to assimilate facts, make decisions, and be accountable for decisions.
• Full UK Driving Licence.

Benefits

• Profit share opportunity (discretionary).
• Opportunity to purchase up to an extra week of annual leave.
• Award-winning pension scheme with company contributions of 7%.
• Life assurance and health benefits, including access to health resources and wellbeing support.
• Discounts on products for you and your family via the Extra Dough platform.
• Continued investment in your personal development.
• Fully stocked kitchens with products for you to enjoy with your daily brew.

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Companies that are diverse in age, gender identity, race, religion, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, or any other aspect which makes them unique, are proven to be better companies. More importantly, creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work, is the right thing to do.

Seniority level: Associate

Employment type: Full-time

Job function: Training

Industries: Food and Beverage Manufacturing

We respect and value difference. We look to create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity.