Leadership Development Manager

4 weeks ago

London, United Kingdom Sainsbury's Full time

Why join us
At Sainsbury's, we believe in the power of leadership and personal development, and as a Leadership Development Manager, you will play a vital role in shaping and delivering high-profile development solutions across our organisation. By joining our team, you will have the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on our colleagues' growth and performance, as well as contribute to our business strategy and HR priorities. Working in an environment that fosters innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement, you will have the space to bring your strategic thinking, creativity, and expertise to develop industry-leading content and methods. With a focus on driving lasting behavioural change and promoting a culture of learning, your work will contribute to creating a better workplace and customer experience. Join us and be part of a dynamic team that values personal and professional growth, embraces change, and strives for excellence in leadership development.
 


What you'll do
As a Leadership Development Manager at Sainsbury's, you will play a crucial role in implementing key development interventions across the organisation. You will be responsible for understanding the business requirements and creating or sourcing appropriate content to address these needs. This includes owning and managing projects related to behavioural and leadership development, retail and line management development programmes, high potential talent programmes, and core skill development aligned with our valued behaviours. Collaborating closely with HR teams and other stakeholders, your strategic approach will involve developing and communicating strategies for specific areas, creating meticulous project plans, identifying interdependencies, and simplifying processes where possible. Drawing on your extensive knowledge of leadership and management principles, you will continuously research and enhance our development approach and offerings, incorporating behaviour change principles and utilising the Kirkpatrick model for evaluation. Additionally, you will forge external connections and manage suppliers to ensure we have industry-leading leadership development solutions. Your ability to work strategically, influence stakeholders, manage projects, and drive lasting behavioural change will be crucial to the success of this role.
 


Who you are
As a Leadership Development Manager at Sainsbury's, you are a highly experienced and strategic professional who is passionate about driving the development and growth of leaders within the organisation. With your extensive knowledge of leadership and management principles, trends, and behaviour change theories, you have a proven track record in identifying, designing, and delivering high-profile leadership development solutions. Your ability to think long-term and take a proactive approach allows you to deliver sustainable learning outcomes and continuously improve development offerings. As a skilled communicator and influencer, you engage with stakeholders up to senior management level, gaining commitment to new ways of working and ensuring lasting behavioural change across the organisation. With your strong project management skills, you are able to effectively plan, prioritise, and deliver development initiatives within budget and on time. Overall, your expertise, strategic mindset, and commitment to continuous improvement make you an invaluable asset in shaping and enhancing our leadership development programmes.

What you need to know and show

Essential

A wide-ranging level of knowledge of leadership and management principles and trends; both current and future. Extensive experience in identifying, developing and delivering high-profile leadership development solutions. Strong understanding of generic learning principles such as 70:20:10. Ability to think long-term and act proactively to deliver long-term, sustainable learning outcomes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement. Comfortable working in an environment of rapid change and ambiguity, prioritising your workload, and standing by your decisions. Strong project management skills to deliver on time and to budget. Ability to plan and prioritise over 12 months. Excellent relationship and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence up to Senior Manager level and gain commitment to new ways of working. Role model continuous professional development and demonstrate ability to learn from, and generously share feedback.

Desirable

Deep knowledge of what it takes to shift mindset and behaviour, applying relevant theory and research from the worlds of science and psychology. Strong understanding of the macro environment that defines our decisions – this includes the People landscape, the retail environment and the macro economic climate. Ability to work at a strategic level, combined with a pragmatic approach ideally based in your own personal experience of management. Effectively hold People partnership teams accountable for embedding solutions and creating lasting behavioural change across the organisation. Show a deep understanding of the Retail landscape and commitment to customers. A mindset focused on ‘making things better’; critically evaluating on-going processes and solutions in order to stop, adapt or implement ideas. Excellent verbal, presentation and written communication skills.

Our people are at the heart of our business, and we are looking for those that are just as passionate about that as we are. Join our People team, and come with us on a journey as we transform the way we do HR. Our team is made up of business partners working with leaders to get the most out of their teams, specialist knowledge in our centres of expertise, and colleague-centric, efficient people services. Our work ranges from making sure that our 150,000+ colleagues are paid on time to attracting brilliant talent to drive our strategy, to unlocking the skills and capability of our colleagues. This is a fast-moving business, and we make sure our policies and rewards keep up with that too. We know flexibility is important and helps you be more productive so there's more choice than ever about where and when you work. When it comes to your development, we'll support your growth in your own unique way. When you join us, you’ll be joining a team that knows just what it means to be happy and engaged, and who makes a real impact across our business.

We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer, so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new - whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:
 
 Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to get 10% off at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat after 4 weeks. This increases to 15% off at Sainsbury’s every Friday and Saturday and 15% off at Argos every pay day. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 20% of salary, depending on how we perform.
 
 Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance, and you can buy additional holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, interest free car loan of up to £10k, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, pay advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an Employee Assistance Programme, you will also be eligible for private healthcare too.

Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. 
 
 Please see for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).

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