Capability Partner

You will partner senior stakeholders to develop the strategic direction for the market capability plan, (what and how) by completing learning needs analysis to identify current and future capability needs across the group, feeding this into an overarching Group Tesco Capability strategy. Sitting within the Group Learning Services team and Market, you'll work closely with the other capability partners to ensure a standardised and consistent approach is applied to all learner audiences. You'll work closely with the Capability Design team and Tesco Business Solutions to shape, influence and own capability for your business area(s). You will be visible, responsive, challenging and effective at building relationships and influencing across the group. You'll be an L&D expert and take an 'outside-in' approach, always striving to maintain industry expertise.

You will be responsible for:

- Own and lead the market capability strategy inc. Learning Tech experience and governance, ensuring we remove duplication and drive learner consistency.

- Partner with senior stakeholders to develop and influence strategic direction for market learning for both the what and the how

- Lead 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

- Work collaboratively with other 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.

- Partner with people business partners, talent partners and POE teams to ensure end to end alignment to the overall colleague experience

- Champion the core learning offer for colleagues, managers and leaders, influencing the business to adopt the core offer and ensure a seamless learning experience for all colleagues within their Markets(s).

- Own any safe and legal training specific to your market and will be responsible for working with TBS to create content to keep the business compliant.

- You live 20/80, ensuring your market(s) follow all governance processes and ruthlessly prioritise work in line with the group capability's plans and priorities. You take a cost-conscious approach to all budgetary decisions, sharing accountably on budget decisions and ensuring we follow group capability budgeting priorities within the work we deliver in functions.

- Contribute to establishing a world class Group PoE and Learning Services, within capability, continuously striving to bring outside- in thinking and are passionate about ensuring the learner experience is at the heart of what you do.

- Follow the procurement policy to source external strategic partners that align to and support our group capability plan and priorities

- Champion and role model our Win Together behaviours, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group & actively driving a culture of learning.

You will need:

-Learning and Development design/deployment

*Excellent consulting and critical analysis skills

-Strong business and commercial acumen

- Able to present information and data to a senior audience in a compelling way

- Courage to challenge

- Strives for continuous improvement, finding creative ways to achieve results

Able to embrace and drive change

- Ability to balance high level perspective with pragmatic approach

- Learning/Cultural / behavioural change theories into practice

- Diversity and Inclusion experience

- Able to collaborate and communicate beyond your own team/function

What's in it for you:

We offer excellent benefits that help make Tesco a great place to work. These include but aren’t limited to:

Competitive Salary
Life Assurance
Pension Scheme*
Bonus Scheme*
Our Virtual GP service provides free and confidential access to an online GP through video GP consultations, and online prescription service for colleagues. The service is also available to families of colleagues who live at the same address for a reduced cost.
24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and family members for in the moment emotional support along with free access to a range of wellbeing services supporting you under our new Wellbeing First approach of Body, Mind and Life.
Colleague Clubcard offering 10% discount across stores and online, with 15% discount weekends once a month (Friday to Sunday), and 20% off twice a year. There is also 20% off F&F clothing, all year long, these various discounts can be extended to a family member with a 2nd Clubcard available.*
Annual leave starting at 23 days
Save As You Earn Scheme*

*Entry requirements and rules of the scheme apply

About us:

Our vision at Tesco is to become every customer's favourite way to shop, whether they are at home or out on the move. Our core purpose is 'Serving our customers, communities and planet a little better every day'. Serving means more than a transactional relationship with our customers. It means acting as a responsible and sustainable business for all stakeholders, for the communities we are part of and for the planet.

We are proud to have an inclusive culture at Tesco where everyone truly feels able to be themselves. At Tesco, we not only celebrate diversity, but recognise the value and opportunity it brings. We're committed to creating a workplace where differences are valued, and make sure that all colleagues are given the same opportunities. We're a big business with diverse working patterns and many business areas which means that we can find something that works for you. Everyone is welcome at Tesco.

We have recently announced that we will be moving towards a more blended working week – combining office and remote working. Our offices will continue to be where we connect, collaborate and innovate. Please talk to us to about how this can work for you.

NOTE: Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details on your agreed start date.

We're proud to have been accredited Disability Confident Leader and we're committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process. For further information on the accessibility support we can offer, please visit https://www.tesco-careers.com/accessibility