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Head of Learning and Development

🏢 ScS • 📍 Sunderland, North East England, England • 🕒 2 days ago

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Salary Disclosed on Application

Full Benefits Package

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Location Base

Sunderland, North East England, England

Tier-1 UK Economic Zone

Est. Take-Home Pay

68% - 74% (After PAYE & NI)

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1.0 GBP ≈ $1.28 USD Living Standard

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Position Overview & Specifications

Description

What’s the opportunity?

This is a rare, exciting opportunity to join the ScS People Team as Head of Learning and Development. The successful person will lead on areas of Learning and Development and drive this area of the people strategy forward.

What does the role involve?

Identify and lead on organisational development to support the delivery of the People Strategy
Lead the Learning and Development team
Oversee the design and deployment of high impact leadership and development programmes, events and projects and functional pathways
Manage and deliver a cost effective and performance orientated L&D service, ensuring that performance targets and budgets are met
Support the development of the senior leaders within ScS
Work collaboratively with the wider people team and colleagues in ScS to drive the RIGHT values and behaviours

Who are we looking for?

Previous experience of leading and delivering people projects across a large organisation
Learning and Development qualification or equivalent experience including managing Apprenticeship programmes
Significant experience in delivering strategic learning & development, management or employee engagement interventions
Previous experience of influencing key stakeholders to design and deliver leaning solutions to meet individual, team and organisational needs
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
The passion to deliver excellent service to our colleagues
A real people person – the ability to build strong relationships with our colleagues
A team player
Adaptable to change in a fast paced environment
Strong work ethic, resilient, self-starter and a can do attitude

What’s in it for you?

Competitive salary
Access to 100s of high street discounts and more – holiday discounts, gym discounts, cinema discounts, evouchers, cashback and more!
Flexible working arrangements welcomed
22 days holiday plus bank holidays
Access to our dedicated Employee Assistance Programme – to give you free access to advice and information on a range of topics
Share Incentive Plan
Death in service
Pension
Cycle to Work scheme
Long service benefits

About ScS

We are one of the UK’s leading sofa and carpet specialists, and you can find us on numerous retail parks all over the country.

We have 99 retail stores, serviced by 9 distribution centres, a Digital Hub based in Coventry and a support centre based in Sunderland. For over a century, ScS has been providing customers with an excellent customer experience, selling beautiful products with outstanding value, quality and choice. Our primary product focus is in retailing sofas, flooring and dining, helping customers to create the home they’ll love and that’s where you come in…