L&D Partner

We're the feel-good fashion brand making style accessible and fun for over 55 years, on our website, mobile app and over 300 stores in the UK.

By living our values - we play to win, customer obsessed, we are one and it starts with me - we deliver That New Look Feeling for our customers and each other.

THE ROLE

We are looking for a strong Learning and Development Partner to join our People Team. This role will be based in our London office twice a week. At New Look our success is driven by our people. As a Learning and Development Partner you will be instrumental in shaping the professional growth of our people. You will design and deliver strategic initiatives that foster learning and talent development.

WHATS IN IT FOR YOU

• 40% staff discount plus friends & family discounts throughout the year
• Access to our reward platform for external discount and offers
• Profit related bonus scheme
• Option to join our Healthcare Private Medical Scheme
• Virtual GP access for you and your children - it allows you to speak to a doctor at a time and date that suits you
• All employees are covered by our life assurance policy from day one
• Unlock extra leave with our buy more holiday scheme.
• Celebrate YOU! Enjoy an extra paid day off on your birthday each year
• Spread the cost of your commute with interest-free season ticket loans
• Do your bit for the environment and save money with our Cycle2Work scheme
• We're proud to partner with the Retail Trust and Fashion & Textile Children's Trust

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING

• Champion a learning culture, promoting self-directed and on-demand learning.
• Design and deliver impactful learning experiences to help identified teams grow, collaborate, and thrive - equipping our colleagues to perform today while preparing for tomorrow.
• Explore and surface learning needs by partnering business stakeholders and working seamlessly with the wider People Team as part of a 'one team' approach to design and deliver responses to these. Specifically, exploring the role of learning in contributing to engagement and retention in business critical areas.
• Support managers to lead and build resilient teams ready for future challenges - combining facilitated sessions with self-directed resources.
• Ensure New Look is delivering a digital learning offering that is coherent, up to date and compliant.
• Create and deliver learning and content aligned to and in service of our overall people strategy and priorities, contracting with the People SLT and other major stakeholders to create an overall learning and delivery plan.
• Provide support to Head of People on projects, including Apprenticeships and the use of Learning Technology across New Look.
• Use feedback, data, and experimentation to evaluate impact and continuously improve learning. Monitor allocated budgets and spend.
• Respond to other ad hoc learning requests, assess needs, and advise on the best approach.
• Partner with external providers to ensure that our offering is utilising the best of our overall ecosystem and partnerships.
• Add value and deliver tangible results at pace and with impact, working as an individual contributor in a matrix team. Prioritise projects and manage multiple learning initiatives simultaneously.
• Reports to the Head of People and work alongside a Learning Specialist and as part of a wider team of people experts.
• Role is London based, with travel to Weymouth/ other locations as required to support face to face delivery and learning.

WHO YOU ARE:

• Proven experience in L&D roles, experience within fashion industry would be a bonus
• Strong leadership, strategic thinking, and communication skills.
• Experience of working in a large, commercially focused organisation
• Experience of working at all levels within a business to C-Suite
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills (written and verbal)
• Able to analyse data and generate actionable insights
• Highly effective in achieving results both with people and through people, communicating clearly

Why New Look?
We care about you and the planet and believe fashion should be a force for positive change . We celebrate inclusion and diversity in everything we do. We're proud of our inclusive culture and our talented team members who embrace our shared purpose, behaviours and values.

We prioritise development, offering training to support your progression, so you can be your absolute best and achieve your goals.

We pride ourselves on being a flexible employer, our colleagues work a range of patterns. If you have a specific pattern in mind, we're keen to discuss this with you in line with the output needed for the role.

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