Capability Partner - Welwyn Garden City, United Kingdom - Tesco

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As a Capability Partner, you'll partner senior stakeholders (WL5s) to develop the strategic direction for functional learning, (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 Capability PoE, 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 Leads and TBS 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 and build a world class capability function.


The Hiring Manager for this vacancy is Stacey Marshall
You will be responsible for

  • Partners senior stakeholders (WL5) to develop and influence strategic direction for functional learning for both the what and the how from a Group perspective.
  • 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 function(s).
  • Act as an SME for people and capability whilst actively balancing the needs of Tesco and our colleagues, ensuring colleagues are safe and skilled in their work whilst ensuring alignment to Tesco's overall business strategy.
  • Collaborate with other capability partners on business wide technical learning offerings to ensure a consistent approach is taken across all learning products and platforms.
  • Balance the needs of your function(s) with the needs of the Group capability team, ensuring you always champion the Group PoE approach whilst influencing and liaising with the business to meet their needs.
  • You are responsible for owning any safe and legal training specific to you function(s) and will be responsible for working with TBS to create content to keep the business compliant.
  • You live 20/80, ensuring your function(s) follow all governance processes and ruthlessly prioritises work in line with the group capability's plans and priorities. You take a costconscious 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.
  • You are the face of our new operating model and hold the business to account, ensuring we remove duplication and drive learner consistency. You work collaboratively and supportively with TBS, breaking down silos and building capability to strive to build one global team.
  • You contribute to establishing a world class Group PoE 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.

  • Owning and leading the Group functional capability strategy inc. Learning Tech experience and governance for your assigned function(s). Build relationships and work closely with capability teams in other parts of the group to remove duplication and drive consistency.
  • Navigate and influence a variety of stakeholders to gain buy in and sponsorship for your functional capability plan.
  • Gathering, validating (with data and evidence) and responding to skill gaps and capability needs by undertaking a learning needs analysis.
  • Aligning the 'what' and the 'how' for my function and audiences, taking the group portfolio of products and implementing them in the most efficient and effective way within your function(s).
  • Contributing to Capability Governance and decision making (build, buy, stop), delivering the key things that matter most... sourcing and using data to make informed decisions around priorities and focus, communicating with and engaging my stakeholders on what is and is not possible based on prioritisation
  • Where necessary, curating external learning resources to compliment in house learning design.
  • Following the procurement policy to source external strategic partners that align to and support our group capability plan and priorities
  • Supplement the learning offer with professional accreditations, access to formal education and qualifications plus exposure to industry bodies, events and resources (where appropriate)
  • Work with TBS to develop the right blend of solutions that help our colleagues and managers to build their ability to selfserve on learning
  • Championing and role modelling our Win Together behaviours, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group & actively driving a culture of learning. Ensure we strive for a learner lead, simple and accessible group capability offer that is data led and supports our strategic priorities
  • Work seamlessly across the people operating model and wider capabilit

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