Would you like to kick start your career in a supportive, collaborative and innovative company?

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Learning & Development Team

Softcat's L&D team sits within a wider HR department consisting of HR Operations, HR Business Partners, Reward, Recruitment, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Engagement. The purpose of the L&D team is to enable Softcat's success through learning by inspiring a culture of curiosity, growth and continuous development. The L&D team plays an influential part in our business, ensuring that Softcat succeeds through our people.

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future. So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Develop & Support our Sales Department

As a Learning & Development Team Leader, you will be working with our leadership team, internal stakeholders and external training providers to deliver a variety of learning initiatives. This is an excellent opportunity for an enthusiastic and professional individual to provide full learning and development support in a strategic area of our business.

As a Learning & Development Team Leader, you'll be responsible for:

• Managing a team of four across our Marlow & Manchester office, supporting existing programmes, managing team projects, setting and tracking of individual objectives, and mentoring/coaching
• Being the strategic lead for the Sales departments development strategies and being the main point of contact
• Assessing, developing and improving training content & deliver this through regular internal and external benchmarking
• Collaborating with HRBP, Recruitment & Induction team to identify & deliver a range of L&D interventions across Sales department employees
• Working closely with the leaders in the business to ensure the sales programmes are meeting the needs of our business
• Assessing the best methods for assessing employees at different stages of Sales programmes and presenting ideas and proposals to senior management
• Delivering training material to groups of people with enthusiasm, whilst also supporting a team-wide initiative to drive a culture of self-responsible learning and support the adoption of our internal training platform
• Developing our mandatory training process for the Sales Team and confidently presenting ideas and proposals to senior management
• Supporting the Head of Learning and Development with the team budget and effectively measure success of learning investments made.
• Working closely with the L&D Coordinator to schedule L&D initiatives
• Building relationships with external L&D providers and support design stage by ensuring the training has the ‘Softcat' touch

What we need from you

• Demonstrative experience in a Learning and Development mentoring or a management role
• Exposure of working in a Sales or supporting sales teams is desirable
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a team
• Be able to deliver an engaging learning experience through classroom based learning, workshops, online and one-to-one coaching
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to develop and maintain relationships with different personalities across the business
• Be able to work on deadlines whilst maintaining a focus on quality work

Work in a way that works for you

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:

• Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home
• Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day
• Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported by a team that celebrates individuality, encourages different perspectives, and embraces every background.

Join us

To become part of the success story, please apply now.

If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. Any information you share on your application will be treated in confidence.

You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/