Learning & Development Specialist

Ideally Manchester based with candidates also considered for Birmingham or Leeds **

 

Do you want to have an impact and join a business where you can make the difference? 

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team? 

 

Join our Learning & Development Team

Softcat's L&D team sits within a wider Human Resources department consisting of HR Services, HR Business Partners, Reward, Recruitment, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Engagement. The purpose of the L&D team is to enable Softcat's success through learning by inspiring a culture of curiosity, growth, and continuous development. The L&D team plays an influential part in our business, ensuring that Softcat succeeds through our people.

 

Success. The Softcat Way. 

There's a uniqueness to Softcat – what we do, how we do it and why we do it. That's because we help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We give everyone the chance to step up and show how much they can achieve. We succeed when all our people succeed.
 

Become a pivotal part of the L&D team

This is an exciting time to join our sales L&D team. We are redefining how we develop sales capabilities, building upon our great foundations. We are looking at how we can continue to improve and deliver the very best enablement for our sales teams.

 

We are on a mission to enhance the capability of our sales teams, enabling them to unlock their potential and achieve high performance. If you're a passionate, impact-focused, driven L&D professional who shares that mission, keep reading.

 

As a people professional, you will know the environment you work in has a big impact on your success. It doesn't get much better than a growing business whose strategy is built and driven by culture, endorsement and enthusiasm from senior leadership about capability development, and a vibrant workforce hungry for development.

 

As a Learning & Development Consultant, you'll be responsible for:

Stakeholder Management: Identifying capability needs, priorities, and goals; providing upskilling solutions and managing stakeholder expectations

Programme Management: Overseeing upskilling initiatives from design to results; applying modern learning methods for impact

Coaching and Facilitation: Conducting 1-to-1 and group coaching in various settings; supporting the L&D team as needed

Partner Management: Building and maintaining key partner relationships

Strategic Projects: Representing L&D in strategic initiatives; driving objectives, solutions, and processes for successful outcomes

 

We'd love you to have:

Proven L&D experience in designing and delivering impactful learning, ideally in a sales environment

Strong collaboration skills to work with leadership to align L&D initiatives with business goals and priorities

Ability to measure learning impact using analytics, driving improvement and practical learner-centred solutions

Exceptional communication and presentation skills, delivering training both in-person and virtually

Ability to manage multiple projects effectively, ensuring timely, high-quality outcomes with a performance focus

Willingness to travel when needed, for stakeholder engagement and facilitation across the UK

 

For more information, please refer to the attached job description. 

 

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home  

Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  

Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs 

 

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.  

 

Join us  

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.  

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at (url removed)/jobs/our-culture/

 

Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. That being said, as a culture-driven organisation, we believe that the genuine essence of each person is what truly matters, so we highly encourage you to be as authentically you as possible when submitting your application to showcase your true and whole self.

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you