Learning & Development Manager

Job Description

• Shape and deliver the L&D agenda in line with business priorities and future capability needs.
• Partner with operational and functional leaders identifying capability gaps and shaping development priorities that support business performance. Use business insight, performance data, and stakeholder feedback to diagnose learning needs and recommend practical, high-impact solutions.
• Lead the design and delivery of programmes across leadership, hospitality, management, onboarding, compliance, and hospitality excellence.
• Influence and support leaders to take ownership of development within their teams, embedding learning into day-to-day practice.
• Drive engagement with blended learning approaches, including workshops, coaching, digital learning, and on-the-job development.
• Collaborate with subject matter experts and external partners to design, source and implement learning solutions aligned to organisational priorities.
• Monitor the impact of learning interventions, using data and feedback to evaluate effectiveness and continuously improve outcomes. Build strong relationships across the business to embed a positive, high-performance learning culture.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a Learning & Development, Training or People Development role, ideally within hospitality or another fast-paced service environment.
• Strong track record of designing and delivering impactful development solutions for managers and teams.
• Strategic and commercially minded, with experience diagnosing business needs and translating them into practical development solutions
• Confident stakeholder management with the ability to influence, challenge and build credibility with leaders at all levels of the business. Strong commercial awareness and understanding of the drivers of operational performance within a multi-location environment.
• Experience of blended learning, digital platforms, and data-informed evaluation.
• Organised, proactive and comfortable managing multiple priorities and projects across a multi-site business.
• Experience working with large scale complex matrix businesses, CIPD or relevant L&D qualification and Insights Practitioner are desirable.

Additional Information

For almost 20 years, for every client, in every location (whether that’s an office, stadium, cathedral or university), we have created beautiful spaces, exciting menus and friendly teams, so that each and every customer can have the hospitality experience they deserve.

We need the brightest and the best to join us to make this all possible. We will support you to create your hospitality legacy and build a career that you are proud of.

Our drive and belief in our people, means that we always strive to supercharge our team’s careers. ‘Better’ is a daily habit that sits deep within our DNA, meaning learning will be front and centre of your experience working with us.

Join us, and be part of the food revolution!

BaxterStorey Values:

ALWAYS VISIONARY

We strive for better, we never settle, never compromise, never follow. We lead the way, blazing our own trail.

WHOLEHEARTEDLY POSITIVE

We are up-beat, motivating and inspiring. Our love for what we do radiates through our food, and is amplified by our people.

CREATIVELY COLLABORATIVE

We embrace our differences to push creativity and we work together to be better.

FOREVER CONSCIOUS

We work together as a team to lead by example, protecting the planet and supporting local communities.

Interested? Even if you don’t meet all requirements, we’d like to hear from you. If you are motivated and hungry to learn, we can work together to develop your potential.

We are proud to be an inclusive employer and welcome applications from candidates of all backgrounds. We celebrate individuality and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We encourage applications from people of all ages, abilities, gender identities, sexual orientations, races, religions, and socio-economic backgrounds.

BaxterStorey is committed to encouraging equity, diversity, and inclusion (ED&I) among our workforce and aim for our workforce to be truly representative of all sections of society, and for each employee to feel respected and able to give their best. To support our commitment to this we have set ourselves an ambition to ‘set the standard and to be recognised for having the most inclusive culture in hospitality’.

Join us and bring your unique perspective to our team.