Learning & Development Co-ordinator

It’s an exciting time to join us at Poundland and Dealz. We are looking for a Learning & Development Coordinator to join our People team, where you’ll provide centralised administrative support to the wider L&D team. 

Our Learning & Development Coordinator will help us get the most out of what we do – supporting a seamless onboarding process, the day-to-day management of our learning provision and answering queries for colleagues and line managers. 

This role plays an essential part in supporting the effective delivery of our internal and external development across our key business areas to ensure our colleagues have the skills and knowledge required to excel in their roles.

The role offers an exciting and broad mix of tasks and responsibilities where you’ll assist in the planning and coordination of all learning and development administration, including mapping our annual training plans, maintaining training content through the Learning Management system (LMS), as well as sending invites, providing reports, turning data into insight and making sure training content is available to new starters.

This is a great opportunity for a tech savvy, strong administrator who is keen to develop a career in L&D.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

• Manage training programmes and schedules, ensuring rooms and classroom sessions/webinars are booked and materials are available as required. 
• Upload content to our Learning Management System (LMS), setting up user profiles and allocating relevant training to colleagues and new starters.
• Issue and maintain the training schedule, room bookings, delegate invites including pre- and post- course activity and co-ordinate attendance to maximise attendance on all workshops.  
• Monitor the Learning and Development inbox, dealing with queries relating to training schedules and colleague requirements.
• Produce relevant reports, highlighting trends and producing dashboards on development and skills & qualifications activity.
• Attend meetings with project teams, apprenticeship providers and partners as required and complete agreed actions, developing and managing relationships with trainers and industry bodies.
• Support annual Developing My Performance review process including follow up activity and reporting.

• Attention to detail and the ability to work logically, consistently, and accurately to timescales.
• Proficient in using Microsoft office packages to provide data and content.
• Excellent interpersonal & communication skills to forge positive working relationships.
• Previous training admin /coordinator experience in a similar role
• Experience of using and maintaining e-Learning platforms

• Competitive salary 
• Potential to earn bonus 
• Free on-site car park 
• Onsite coffee lounge
• Discount Card – 10% discount on most purchases in store including PEP&CO
• Family Friendly Benefits
• Loyal Service Awards
• My Staff Shop – exclusive discount portal
• Apprenticeships & Career Development  
• Life Assurance Cover
• Health & Wellbeing – employee assistance programme to support you
• Holiday Allowance – increasing by one day per year (up to 33 days), along with the option to purchase additional holiday (annually)
• Pension
• Birthdays are important, so each year, you can take the day off as an extra day’s holiday

From one store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990 to more than 850 across the UK and the Republic of Ireland today, Poundland & Dealz has developed a reputation for offering top brands and quality own-brand products at an amazing value. We sell everything from food and drink to DIY, pet products to stationery, not forgetting our very own fashion brand, PEP&CO. We have recently invested £45 million in the business, opened new stores and revamped existing ones. We’re on an exciting journey, and you can be a part of it.

We’re part of a much larger group in Europe called Pepco which has 3,000 stores in 17 territories serving 50 million shoppers, and the size of our business means there are so many opportunities for you to come and join us. From our retail stores to our support and distribution centres, everywhere you see Poundland and Dealz, you’ll find passionate and knowledgeable colleagues delivering amazing service to our customers. Once you’re part of our family, we’ll give you everything you need to be the best you can be, from training to coaching and mentoring. Our seven core values and seven leadership principles steer how we do business. They give us the building blocks to create a culture where everybody thrives, and sustainability is at the top of our agenda.