Senior People Development Specialist

2 weeks ago


Bury, Borough of Bury, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

Job Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior People Development Advisor to join our team at JD Sports. As a key member of our People Development Team, you will play a critical role in delivering high-quality, commercially focused People Development services that support our business development strategy.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Support the People Development Manager to ensure the quality of all development initiatives and activities.
  • Lead the planning, organization, and implementation of all development activities.
  • Operate as a subject matter expert within the People Development Team to best support the team and wider stakeholders on best practice.
  • Act as a supervisor for the team, offering guidance, support, and encouragement to maintain focus and engagement while picking up on potential issues and solving them.
  • Support the ongoing project management for development initiatives and activities.
  • Write, check, and maintain processes and procedures within the team to streamline workflows and create better ways of working.

Additional Responsibilities:

  • Write and deliver performance-focused People Development activities to audiences across the group through instructor-led virtual sessions, coaching, and face-to-face sessions.
  • Conduct follow-up activities to ensure impact after development interventions and to inform further learning needs.
  • Take part in the learning design process to evaluate learning interventions and continuously improve the People Development offer.
  • Act as a coach for individuals on programs or 1:1 as part of their personal and professional development.
  • Work with Line Managers to improve team KPI delivery, identify trends, and work in partnership to improve areas of concern through effective individual and team development activities.
  • Stay up to date and apply current theory in the practice of training delivery.

Requirements:

  • Demonstrates excellent communication, training delivery, and coaching skills.
  • A drive to keep up to date with current learning and development practices and a thorough understanding of learning and development principles.
  • Passionate about delivering exciting learning experiences that positively impact both an individual's performance and business performance.
  • Can demonstrate a proven track record showing their ability to deliver learning activity that is focused on performance development and aligned to business objectives.
  • Experience in writing and designing engaging learning experiences that follow proven structure and produce results.
  • Ability to analyze data to inform further development needs for the individual, the business, and continuous improvement of learning materials.
  • Possesses a commercial mindset, high levels of resilience, and the ability to work within a fast-paced and changing environment.
  • Strong project management skills, including planning work and managing multiple tasks/projects to deliver consistent results.
  • Ambitious to learn with an enthusiastic approach, curiosity, and appetite for development.
  • Excellent IT skills (MS Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email, Internet, Outlook, MS Teams, LMS) and the ability to interrogate data to inform decisions.

About JD Sports:

JD Sports is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors, and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues across 3,400 stores in over 30 markets around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognize the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive, irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-first, a digital leader, and customer-focused organization that provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today, and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

  • Incremental Holiday Allowance
  • Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
  • Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
  • Discounted Gym membership
  • Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
  • Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications


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