Learning & Development Manager

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Job title: Learning & Development Manager

Department: People

Location: Peterborough or Halifax, hybrid working. National travel required.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary: From £50,000 plus car allowance.

We're looking for a Learning & Development Manager to be part of our success story.

**Listed in the 2022 Sunday Times 100: Britain's fastest-growing private companies.
**Great career development opportunities - grow with us.

About the role

Lead the training function across Activate Group, delivering learning solutions that improve team member efficiency and effectiveness.

Key responsibilities

• Lead, coach and develop the Group's training team.

• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to determine and assess the Group's training and team member learning and development needs.

• Input into the development of the Group's annual training plan, aligned to the Group's annual objectives.

• Lead the creation of high quality training materials and programmes which support the delivery of business objectives.

• Work with team members, people managers, and the wider People Team to ensure the delivery of learning and development objectives.

• Monitor and assess the effectiveness and success of training programmes, including collecting and analysing feedback.

• Keep up-to-date on the latest learning and development trends, developments and best practices.

• Identify and implement a wide range of best practice learning and development techniques to improve efficiency and returns on investment

• Manage team member enrolment for training, scheduling training sessions and organising the resources to facilitate training programmes

• Manage training budgets as required

• Support the delivery of Group People Plan activities / change initiatives

• Support the development of People Team Apprentices as needed, coaching and task managing where required

• Act as an ambassador for the Group Values, ensuring that the values are embedded in every stage of the team member journey

Knowledge and experience

• Previous experience as a learning and development manager in a fast-paced operational business

• People management experience, ideally including managing a team based across multiple sites

• Experience of developing and implementing training programmes

• Knowledge and experience of various training methods including coaching, workshops, classroom training, mentoring and e-learning programme
• Experience of managing training budgets

Skills

• Ability to track the performance of training programmes, write reports and recommend strategies for improvement

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Outstanding IT and leadership skills

• Strong organisation, planning and time management skills

• Strong relationship building/client management skills

Benefits

• 33 days holiday (including bank holidays)
• Personal health cash plan - claim back the cost of things like dentist and optical check ups
• Enhanced maternity / paternity / adoption / shared parental pay
• Life assurance: three times basic salary
• Free breakfasts and fruit
• Birthday surprise for everybody!

What you can expect from us

At Activate Group, looking after team members is a major priority. Whether you're at our smart Halifax or Peterborough offices, one of our AAR sites or working from home, we'll make sure you have all the support you need to succeed.

From benefits that put your health and wellbeing first, to impressive rewards for our employee of the month, and little perks like free fruit and cereal, we'll go out of our way to show how much we appreciate you.

A bit about us

Named by the Sunday Times as one of the UK's 100 fastest-growing private companies, we employ more than 700 team members nationwide.

We work with some of the UK's largest fleets and insurance companies, supporting drivers that have been involved in a road incident at our contact centres in Halifax and Peterborough.

We look after every step of the repair process, repairing vehicles at our own Activate Accident Repair body shops, and through a UK-wide network of independent repair partners.

Want to know what it's like to work with us? Take a look at our purpose and values. They define who we are, and how we work with team members, customers and suppliers:

Purpose: Make someone's bad day better

Values:

• Make it happen - Be accountable. Take the initiative, work fast, and do a great job.
• Strive for better - Be bold. Challenge the norm - make small improvements often.
• Win together - Be a team-player. Win together, learn together, respect each other.