Job Title: Learning & Development Manager
Location: Nottingham
Salary: Competitive – Dependant on Experience
Job type: Full time – Permanent. Monday – Friday, 9-5 pm inclusive of an hour’s lunch
About Baxter:
Baxter Freight is one of the UK’s fastest growing Freight Forwarders, already reaching £37million turnover within eight years. Our success is built on the relationships we nurture and delivering the best customer experience in our industry. Proud to be based in Nottingham, an area that has been named as one of the best places in the UK to start a business, and home to many thriving industries. We focus on recruiting the best talent in the midlands, working closely with local universities.
We work with leading brands to connect their goods to the global market. Our reputation has put us at the forefront of innovative supply chain solutions and we are proud to be the UK sales partner for DHL Freight, the world’s leading logistics company.
The Role:
How does working for a rapidly growing business committed to helping our people advance their skills and knowledge sound? We have the role for you. As a Learning & Development Manager you will help our company succeed by training and developing its people, ensuring that we are continually working to our best abilities.
The Impact You Will Have:
You’ll be immersed in a creative and fast-paced environment where every day you will be helping people grow whilst shaping a learning and development strategy.
As Learning and Development Manager, you will take ownership of designing and developing training solutions. Your dynamic and innovative approach will allow employees to maximise their potential in their current role and progression opportunities. You will make a real difference to the business by identifying training and developmental needs whilst driving suitable training initiatives at all levels of the business from upskilling to leadership and management. Being an avid learner, you will maintain knowledge of the latest learning practices and seek new ways to implement processes, measuring the effectiveness of learning programmes and using the results to influence future initiatives.
A Typical Day:
- Delivering training and development to support current employees making sure they are equipped with the skills and knowledge to effectively do their job.
- Designing and delivering training sessions such as Customer Service, Values, Equality & Diversity, People Management focussed training, train the trainer and much more.
- Conducting ‘Training Needs Analysis’ as and when required
- Creating training materials and programmes to address specific business objectives.
- Collaborating with senior stakeholders to understand their business needs and create bespoke solutions to address challenges or opportunities that arise.
- Monitoring and assessing the effectiveness and success of training programmes.
- Keeping up-to-date on the latest training trends, developments and best practices.
- Identifying and implementing a wide range of training techniques to improve efficiency.
- Capturing feedback to continuously adapt and improve training.
- Growing our structured development course, specifically apprenticeships and graduate programmes and optimise the value of our Apprenticeship Levy fund.
Is This Role For You?
- You have experience of leading and shaping a learning and development strategy.
- You have experience of developing and implementing a variety of learning and development training programmes.
- You are confident in delivering training through various methods.
- You are well versed in tracking performance of training programmes, writing reports and recommending strategies for improvement.
- You have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- You have strong organisation, planning and time management skills.
- You are self-motivated and decisive individual with the ability to adapt to change when needed.
Benefits:
Besides being a great place to work with a lovely bunch of people (well we think so anyway!) here is what we have to offer you;
- Competitive salary
- Contributory pension with up to 6% employer contribution
- Life Assurance of 4 times basic salary on commencement of employment
- 25 days Holidays plus bank holidays
- Family focused: Up to 8 weeks paid Enhanced Parental Leave for new parents
- Monday – Friday, 9-5 pm inclusive of an hour’s lunch
- Opportunity to work from home 1 day per week
- Charity top-up scheme
- Coffee house with 200 Degrees Coffee and Bird and Blend tea
- Free offsite parking a short walk away
- Short walk to local retail park
- Regular social events – netball matches, spa days, team parties
- Culture of internal promotion and progression
Please click on the APPLY button to send your CV and Cover Letter for this role.
Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of: L & D Manager, Client Service Assistant, Learning and Development, L and D, Service Delivery Assistant, Digital Learning Executive, may also be considered for this role.
