Head of Operational Training

3 weeks ago


Chippenham, United Kingdom Wincanton Full time

**Role overview**

Responsible for Wincanton’s operational training programmes, sites, awarding body relationships and key strategic internal and commercial growth in operational training. This role will work closely with each of the group training and compliance/quality managers to ensure we meet the needs of the business and provide the highest standard or training. This person will also have budget responsibility, an extended team of over 50 colleagues. They will need to work with key stakeholders to drive innovation, identify new training opportunity’s and commercially grow our new training function.

This is a Midlands based role which is commutable from Magna Park and Corby.

**Duties and **responsibilities**
- Overall group strategic training responsibility for HSEQ, MHE, Driver and Business Support team. Consisting initially of a 56 person headcount
- Overall site responsibility for Bittesby House, Driver Training academy and 4 RTITB training centres
- Overall responsibility for a Wincanton awarding body status in CPC, Nebosh, IOSH, Qualsafe, MHFA, RTITB
- Meet the needs and drive growth opportunities for internal operational training
- Prepare the operational training team to become commercially ready and deliver external training
- Ensure the team focus on commercial business development opportunities through B2B, CLEAR partnership key account management and organic leads
- Create an environment that identifies and implements innovative solutions that differentiate our service and support Wincantons added value in supply chain
- Liaise with senior leadership to ensure training offering supports business needs and provide a clear strategy and future roadmap for the operational training team
- Report on success and impact of training given
- To produce timely and accurate reports for analysis
- Extensive UK travel

**Experience, **skills and **attributes**
- Experience in business development and commercial customer relationships
- An in depth understanding of operational course delivery
- Good understanding of Health and Safety practices
- Dynamic and creative
- In depth experience in innovative training solutions
- Confident and proficient at writing and delivering presentations
- Strong communication skills and verbally articulate
- Highly organized
- Strong attention to detail
- Consistent, polite, approachable and helpful
- Advanced user of PowerPoint and Excel
- Open to new ideas and keen to explore new methods of training and delivery
- Ideally, significant experience in a training related role

**About us**

Wincanton is a leading third party logistics (3PL) and supply chain solutions provider in the UK and Ireland. As the largest British logistics company we work in industry sectors as diverse as milk, defence, energy, retail, consumer goods and construction, supporting every stage of development and adding value through our supply chain expertise and innovative approach to logistics challenges. With over 17,000 colleagues across more than 200 sites and a 3,400 strong fleet of vehicles, we put our customers at the heart of everything we do and our mission is “to make our customers business’s better, every day.”

**Our commitment**

Our people are our most important asset and as such we are continuously expanding our capability programs to provide you with opportunities to build and extend your professional, functional, and management skills. Your development through coaching is our priority. Continuous learning takes place through a broad variety of opportunities and types of engagements. Access to the latest technological innovations in the logistics and supply chain industry, as well as Wincanton’s deep knowledge and expertise in our field, constitute a superb platform for your professional development.


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