Job Title: Learning & Development Manager
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Starting at £50,000
Job type: Full time – Permanent
Baxter freight have a clear ambition to provide logistics with a difference. We started out by listening to the needs of our customers, offering creative solutions to them, building personal relationships with both customers and suppliers.
Our mission is simple: to add value to each customer’s business by improving their logistics.
We have daily services running from our consolidation centres in Yorkshire and Northamptonshire covering 70 depots in continental Europe and the Nordic region, a strong presence in the full and part load market in the UK and in Europe as well as fast growing air, ocean and courier divisions.
The Role:
The role will involve collaborating with each department to gain an understanding of individuals’ development and training needs. You will then produce innovative ideas and initiatives that move the business forward in its learning culture, driving forward training initiative’s to further fostering our lifelong learning ethos.
You’ll have the opportunity to make the L&D role your own, drawing on tools we have used previously, as well as creating your own processes and resources. You’ll be able to introduce ways of working that suit your style!
The L&D role will involve planning, design, and delivering of training modules to difference audiences from new starters, experienced employees and to the leadership team. You will deliver training via a range of training methods from deskside coaching, classroom sessions, workshops, videos etc to suit the situation and learning styles.
Main Responsibilities
- Responsible for delivering training and development to support current employees and make sure they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to effectively do their job
- Design & delivering training sessions such as Customer Service, Values, Equality & Diversity, People Management focussed training, train the trainer and much more
- Conducting Training Needs Analysis on a yearly basis
- Create training materials and programmes to address specific business objectives
- Monitor and assess the effectiveness and success of training programmes
- Keep up-to-date on the latest training trends, developments and best practices
- Identify and implement a wide range of training techniques to improve efficiency
- Manage employee attendance for training, schedule training sessions and organise the resources to facilitate training programmes
- Capture feedback to continuously adapt and improve training
- Grow our structured development course, specifically apprenticeships and graduate programmes and optimise the value of our Apprenticeship Levy fund
The Ideal Candidate
- Experience developing and implementing training programmes
- Confident delivery methods various training methods
- Confident tracking performance of training programmes, write reports and recommend strategies for improvement
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong organisation, planning and time management skills
- Self-motivated and decisive, with the ability to adapt to change
Benefits
- Competitive Salary – We really are the type of company that wants to pay people their worth. We are happy to have a conversation with you on this.
- 28 days holiday plus 8 bank holidays
- Workplace contribution pension up to 6%
- Life Assurance (4 times your salary)
- Plenty of opportunities for learning and growth, alongside our focus on career progression and Professional development with a company that likes to promote from within.
- Newly refurbished office
- Casual dress code
- Vibrant and competitive team culture with 200⁰ coffee machine
- Free Parking
- Charity top-up scheme for your chosen charity if that’s something you would like to participate in.
- Work-life balance is also very important to us as a business, we have a qualified Mental Health First Aider on site, regular office activities, and social events that include summer and Christmas events.
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with experience of: Learning & Development, Corporate Learning Manager, Head of Learning and Development, Learning and Development Content Creator, Learning and Development Design Manager, Learning Advisor, Learning Support, Learning Support Worker, Learning Guidance Advisor, Service Delivery Manager, Service Delivery Team Leader may also be considered for this role.
