Senior Learning & Development Manager Global Distribution & Packaging

Job Title: Senior Learning and Development Manager Global Manufacturing

Department: HR

Location: Southampton UK

Working Hours: 37.5 weekly

Site based role with regular engagement across business sites

Job summary What to expect:

The Senior Learning and Development Manager Packaging and Distribution is responsible for partnering with senior leaders to shape prioritise and deliver learning and development strategies that directly enable business performance operational capability and workforce sustainability.

Working closely with Operations leaders HR Business Partners and centres of excellence the role translates business strategy into integrated learning capability and talent development solutions. The Senior L&D Manager ensures learning investment is targeted datadriven and aligned to quality safety and performance expectations while leveraging global best practice and enterprise standards.

This role balances strategic consulting with handson oversight ensuring that learning solutions support operational excellence employee development compliance and longterm succession requirements. The Senior L&D BP does not own training teams but influences integrates and governs delivery across internal and external providers.

As theSenior Learning and Development Manager Packing and Distribution your responsibilities will include:

• Partner with senior leaders to understand business strategy performance challenges and future capability needs.
• Act as a trusted advisor on workforce capability skills risk and development investment.
• Lead capability needs analysis across leadership technical safety quality and professional skill domains.
• Shape learning roadmaps that support operational readiness transformation and career progression.
• Oversee the design deployment and evaluation of learning solutions leveraging internal L&D teams global content and external providers.
• Work collaboratively with HR Business Partners Operations leaders and subject matter experts.
• Support leaders in embedding learning into daytoday operations and performance routines.
• Establish success measures for learning initiatives linking activity to capability uplift and business outcomes.

A full job description is available upon request.

About you:

We are looking for someone with:

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Strong expertise in learning and development strategy capability building and adult learning principles.
• Proven experience partnering with senior leaders in operational or regulated environments.
• Ability to influence without direct authority in complex matrixed organisations.
• Strong analytical capability to identify skill gaps and evaluate learning impact.
• Excellent facilitation consulting and stakeholder management skills.
• Strong understanding of quality safety and compliancedriven learning environments.
• Project and programme oversight capability including planning prioritisation and risk management.
• Significant experience in learning and development talent or organisational capability roles.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Operations or technical functions.
• Experience influencing learning strategy at a senior leadership level.
• Bachelors degree in Human Resources Learning & Development Business or related discipline.
• CIPD qualification in Learning & Development (Level 5 minimum; Level 7 desirable).
• Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered

Experience & Education:

Required:

• Significant experience in learning and development talent or organisational capability roles.
• Demonstrated experience partnering with Operations or technical functions.
• Experience influencing learning strategy at a senior leadership level.
• Bachelors degree in Human Resources Learning & Development Business or related discipline.
• CIPD qualification in Learning & Development (Level 5 minimum; Level 7 desirable).
• Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
• Experience in manufacturing engineering logistics or similarly regulated environments preferred.

Preferred:

• Experience in manufacturing engineering logistics or similarly regulated environments preferred.

What we offer:

Youll receive competitive compensation and a fantastic benefits package including 25 days holiday pension scheme healthcare cover life assurance access to our Wellness Platform to support you in mental health and wellbeing a discounted contact lens scheme and much more!

We are committed to our employees personal and professional development and offer extensive training to support your career growth and help every individual to reach their full potential. To help us achieve our goals well give you everything you need to help you achieve yours.

We also provide access to LinkedIn Learning to help you develop in your career and grow with CooperVision.

What you can expect:

As a CooperVision employee youll be welcomed into a diverse and progressive global business. We appreciate how important fostering an inclusive culture is and how different perspectives add value and contribute to our success.

If you like what you see take the first step towards your Brighter Future and apply today!All suitably qualified applicants will receive equal consideration and opportunities from CooperVision.

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