Divisional Retail Trainer

**Competitive salary with an excellent bonus plan**: We offer two bonuses (personal performance paid quarterly and company performance paid annually) with private healthcare and dental cover and a generous pension scheme.

Specsavers is here to change lives through better sight and hearing by delivering outstanding value, being loved by every customer and creating a place where all colleagues are proud to belong as we grow our business.

**As a Divisional Retail Trainer, you will cover the **Bedford, Cambridge, Norfolk & Suffolk **division in the East, as such, we are looking for someone to be based in or around this area.**

**The role**

The Divisional Retail Trainer will combine their Optical, Audiology and Domiciliary skills with their delivery experience to facilitate learning activities across the business. A delivery focussed role, facilitating a range of colleague development topics. The role combines different learning techniques to ensure the learners’ experience is challenging, practical and effective.

The Divisional Retail Trainer will use their consultancy skills to analyse the needs of our business/people and where appropriate, provide learning solutions that help build performance and overcome the identified need. Some duties include:

- Facilitate and support learners on colleague development and apprenticeship programmes through the National Core Offer and divisional support model
- Work closely with the Divisional People Partner to deliver the divisional people plan
- Be a visible learning & development specialist within the division and with our Partners
- Proactively work with the wider Retail L&D Team to ensure a ‘one team’ approach
- Proactively work with the Apprenticeship Team to ensure OFSTED standards are adhered to
- Provide challenge, advice, and coaching support for In-Store Trainers (IST)

**Your experiences**
- Facilitation and training skills in virtual and face-to-face delivery approaches, for individuals, small and large groups
- Consulting skills to identify training needs and create, deliver, and evaluate solutions
- Mentoring & coaching skills
- Ability to work in a fast-paced evolving business
- Ability to build and manage stakeholder relationships
- Technical knowledge of specialist areas such as Optics, Domiciliary or Audiology would be beneficially but not essential

**What we’ll do for you**

We offer a competitive salary and an excellent bonus plan - you will be entitled to two bonuses - one based on your own personal performance which is paid quarterly and a company bonus that is based on the performance of the business. You’ll be provided with private healthcare for your family and dental cover for yourself and partner you will also be entitled to permanent health insurance and life assurance, in addition to a generous pension. You will also have access to the HeadSpace app to support living a healthier, happier, more well-rested life.

**The role is a mix of home-based and travel, to deliver face-to-face and virtual training as well as connect with other team members and stakeholders, you must therefore be able to drive.**

**Our People**

Our people ambition is to be the place we are all proud to belong. We want all our colleagues to feel listened to, included, valued, and motivated. To help start us on this journey networks and communities are being established by our colleagues across Specsavers so far, we have PRISM which represents our LGBTQ+ community, MenoTalk to help support and drive our menopause in the workplace agenda and Empowered Together, our women’s network that is in place to rally for women’s equality in and out of work and help instil confidence in women and EmbRACE to provide a voice for minority ethnic colleagues, as well as raise awareness of why it’s important to have diversity of thought in the workplace and promote racial equality.