What you’ll be doing
as a Learning Consultant
1. Engage proactively with stakeholders to deeply understand business challenges, distinguishing between perceived wants and actual needs.
2. Develop a tailored learning plan for each function, actively manage and update it on an ongoing basis, provide quarterly progress reports to senior leadership, and conduct an annual review to assess impact and outcomes as part of a continuous improvement cycle.
3. Design and recommend innovative, blended learning solutions beyond traditional face-to-face or eLearning formats – leveraging digital, social, experiential, and on-the-job learning methods as appropriate.
4. Support the development and maintenance of competence certification frameworks for high-risk roles and tasks, ensuring alignment with Thames Water’s central processes.
5. Manage the end-to-end training request process, ensuring clarity, consistency, and alignment with L&D priorities.
6. Manage relationships with external learning providers and consultants to ensure efficient, cost-effective delivery of high-quality learning solutions that meet business needs.
7. Actively contribute to shared processes, tools, and best practices that enhance team effectiveness and service delivery.
8. Support the L&D communications plan by contributing relevant updates, success stories, and guidance for your areas of accountability.
9. Collaborate with internal communications and L&D colleagues to ensure consistent messaging and visibility of learning initiatives.
Base location: Reading – with extensive travel to Swindon
Working pattern: 36 Hours
What you should bring to the role
10. Proven experience in a Learning & Development or Learning Consultant role within a complex, fast-paced organisation.
11. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across functions and with stakeholders at all levels, including senior leadership.
12. Track record of designing and delivering innovative, blended learning solutions architecture – aligned to strategic objectives.
13. Strong understanding of learning theory, performance consulting, and learning methodologies. (e.g. digital, social, experiential)
14. Excellent communication and consultancy skills, with the ability to challenge constructively and ask meaningful questions to shape and structure learning to ensure the highest levels of end-user experience.
What’s in it for you?
15. Competitive salary up to £58,000 per annum, depending on experience.
16. Annual Leave- 26 days holiday per year, increasing to 30 with the length of service. (plus bank holidays)
17. Generous Pension Scheme through AON.
18. Access to lots of benefits to help you take care of you and your family’s health and wellbeing, and your finances – from annual health MOTs and access to physiotherapy and counselling, to Cycle to Work schemes, shopping vouchers and life assurance.