Learning Associate

Learning Associate – Elveden

Up to £26,000 - £30,000

Monday - Friday

Highly competitive rewards package including Group Pension

Excellent career progression prospects across the Bakkavor group

We are the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with an international presence in the US and China. Our 19,000 employees operate from 39 locations, developing and producing innovative food for a wide variety of occasions and budgets. In the UK, we work with leading grocery retailers, focusing on their own label brands.

A fantastic opportunity for a hands-on L&D training professional at Bakkavor Elveden has arisen. You will be responsible for delivering learning interventions for our central Group functions.

You will ensure our employees are not only compliant when it comes to regulatory and mandatory training interventions, but you will play a part in ensuring our employees are engaged and motivated through your training delivery.

• Delivery of learning for Group functions reflecting plan.
• Accountable for quality of delivery and agreed learning outcomes.
• Accountable for maintaining best in class delivery expertise.
• Track and report on performance/ effectiveness of learning intervention.
• Interface with regional delivery to achieve economies of scale in delivery of Core training e.g. induction.
• Bring together SMEs from functions to delivery specialist training - as above.
• Procure for professional development and operational effectiveness course delivery (use preferred supplier list) - as above.
• Liaise with other functional teams to draw on their specialist insight.
• Support the learning function leaders in the execution of learning requirements and ensuring the plan for professional standards is delivered.
• Benchmark best practice and bring relevant insight and knowledge into the team.
• Supports initiatives in the broader organisation ie talent, engagement and inclusion.

You will be great at developing cross functional relationships, alongside driving training best practice ensuring all our employees receive a best in class training proposition. This is a very exciting opportunity for a dynamic and energetic L&D professional to help drive the L&D agenda at a Group level.

Bakkavor is the leading provider of fresh prepared food in the UK, with a growing international presence in the US and China. We are number one in the UK in the four product categories of meals, salads, desserts and pizza & bread, providing high-quality, fresh, healthy and convenient food. Our customers include every major UK grocery retailer, including Tesco, Marks & Spencer, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, and some of the world’s best-known food brands. We have over 19,000 employees, our headquarters are in London and we have 23 factories in the UK, 5 in the US and 9 in China.