Tesco UK • Shire Park, Kestral Way, Welwyn Garden City • Apply by 20-May-2025 About the role
As a Capability Partner, you'll be collaborating with senior customers to define the strategic direction for functional learning!
Your role involves identifying current and future capability needs, supplying to the overarching Group Tesco Capability strategy alongside fellow Capability Partners.
Additionally, you’ll work closely with the Capability Design team and Tesco Business Services (TBS) to shape, influence, and take ownership of capability development for your specific business area. Your approach will be visible, adaptable, and influential as you build positive relationships across the organisation.
What is in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. to find out more!
1. Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
2. Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
3. Private medical insurance
4. 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
5. Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
You will be responsible for
6. Partnering with senior team members (WL5) to influence and develop strategic direction for functional learning for both the what and the how from a Group perspective.
7. Leading robust, data led learning needs analysis to develop and deliver prioritised market focused capability plans, which ensure the right skills and behaviours to deliver both market and central strategic priorities.
8. Responsible for line leading a small team remotely based and work collaboratively with fellow Capability Partners to ensure a rounded view of market-needs within functional plans and vice versa. Drives value through business-wide learning offerings to ensure a consistent approach is taken across all learning products and platforms.
9. Partnering with People Business Partners, Talent Partners and other teams to ensure end to end alignment to the overall colleague experience.
10. Championing the core learning offer for colleagues, managers and leaders, influencing the business to adopt the core offer and ensure a flawless learning experience for all colleagues within their function(s) across the Group.
11. Responsible for owning any safe and legal training specific to your market and will be responsible for working with TBS to build content to keep the business compliant.
12. You'll live 20/80, ensuring your function follows all governance processes and tenaciously prioritise work in line with the Group Capability's plans and priorities. You take a cost-conscious approach to all budgetary decisions, sharing accountability on budget decisions and ensuring we follow group capability budgeting priorities within the work we deliver in functions.
13. Continuously aspiring to bring in outside in thinking and are passionate about ensuring the learner experience is at the heart of what you do.
14. Owning and lead the market capability strategy inc. Learning Tech experience (including Content Libraries) and governance, ensuring we remove redundancy and drive learner consistency.
15. Championing and role model our Win Together behaviours, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group and actively driving a culture of learning.
You will need
16. Setting group wide capability strategies and gaining engagement, consensus and sign off for these.
17. Responsible for senior partner engagement and influencing, in particular building strategic positive relationships with a diverse group of international team members.
18. Ability to demonstrate knowledge of latest learning external and internal trends and how people learn.
19. Able to dedicatedly prioritise, led by data, driven by commercial foresight and subject matter expertise,
20. Shown understanding of diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities.
21. Proven knowledge of learning and development interventions and providers.
22. Strong network of learning specialists to draw on external standard process
About us
You might know us as a supermarket, technology company or even for our award-winning mobile network. Truth is, we’re all of those things, and much more. Our colleagues work with one goal in mind, helping to make every day a little better for our customers, colleagues and communities all over the world. No two customers are the same, neither are our colleagues.
At Tesco, we champion a balance that lets you thrive both in and out of work. Spend 60% of your week collaborating with colleagues at our office locations or local sites and the rest remotely. Whether you're just kicking off your career, juggling passions, or navigating big life events, we're here to support you. We always welcome a conversation about flexible working, so talk to us throughout your application about how we can support.
We're proud to be an accredited Disability Confident Leader, where everyone’s welcome. That’s why we commit to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you need support with your application, for more information. And if you're interested in joining our team but don't tick every box, don't let that hold you back from applying.