Learning and Development Specialist

Location: Newbury or London
Working hours: Full time/part time

Role purpose:

At Vodafone, we have an exciting and ambitious business strategy, and as part of this the needs and demands of our business are increasing. We are passionate about delivering a consistent and awesome learning experience for all our people, making it easy for them to build their skills and grow their careers at Vodafone, whilst helping to create a culture of continuous learning that drives growth and innovation. This will enable us to better identify local and global talent and skills needs and build future-focused skills for the success of our people and the business.

The purpose of this role is to:

Define and deliver capability plans aligned to functional people plans.
Build sustainable capabilities to support the delivery of the UK strategy & priorities, whilst ensuring the engagement and commitment of all stakeholders is achieved.
Lead the design and delivery of key L&D work steams, aligned to capability priorities, and provide expertise to key business areas and stakeholders.
Ensure key capabilities are embedded with clear return on investment.

What will you be doing?

Align market activity to the Vodafone Learning Organisation (VLO) to ensure we support and leverage the skills and expertise across the business.
Provides operational support that executes learning activities (for example learning needs gap analysis, maintaining, and promoting curricula content and learning campaigns, learning delivery and evaluation).
Acts as a point of contact for the business and communicates effectively with HR Business Partners and relevant Business stakeholders to ensure their engagement and commitment on all key learning work streams and alignment to the wider HR people plan.
Supports with driving data driven insights around learning priorities using dashboards and identifies the ROI of learning campaigns through HR analytics.
Design and facilitate learning solutions as per business requirements to improve competence, knowledge, and skills of employees.

Who are we looking for?

L&D expertise
Commercial acumen with a focus on the customer
Ability to challenge and influence senior stakeholders
Experience of planning and delivering projects to deadline and ability to flex approach to meet competing demands
Knowledge of DEI and accessibility considerations for learning.

What’s in it for you?

Blended Working

Vodafone UK’s blended working approach means you’ll come to your contracted hub location office as and when needed to get things done for your role and for tasks that require it, otherwise you will be able to work from home. Our ‘Office in a Box’ home-working kit will be available for all who need it during your onboarding journey.

An excellent remuneration and bonus package with 28 days holiday entitlement, in addition to bank holidays and paid leave for charity projects. We offer an extensive benefits package that can be tailored to suit you and your family, including employee discounts, retail vouchers, pension plan and share schemes. We’re also proud to provide a Reconnect programme with flexibility to support individuals returning to work after a career break and our market-leading parental leave policies. We’re committed to supporting you throughout every step of your career at Vodafone.

Together we can

Vodafone UK are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority and all offers of employment for this role are subject to background checks, including criminal (DBS) and financial checks to meet the regulators standards.

If you require any reasonable adjustments or have an accessibility request as part of your recruitment journey, for example, extended time or breaks in between online assessments, a sign language interpreter, or assistive technology, please refer to the Accessibility section of our Careers website (careers.vodafone.co.uk) under Career Support, for guidance.

Not a perfect fit?

Worried that you don’t meet all the desired criteria exactly? At Vodafone we are passionate about Inclusion for All and creating a workplace where everyone can thrive, whatever their personal or professional background. If you’re excited about this role but your experience doesn’t align exactly with every part of the job description, we encourage you to apply as you may be the right candidate for this role or another role, and our recruitment team can help you see how your skills fit in.

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