Learning and Development Administrator FTC

Job Introduction

We have a fantastic opportunity for a Learning and Development Administrator to join our team on a fixed term contract, to provide administrative support to the L&D Team, including organising, co-ordinating and administering all learning and development activities to support the provision of excellent organisational learning within WGS.

Main Responsibility

The successful candidate will provide;

• General administrative support for L&D team to include organising and co-ordinating L&D Team meetings, L&D plans, maintain L&D team folders. Identify administration efficiencies for continuous improvement
• Administer requests for online psychometrics, including 360/MBTI/Insights/Saville/Hogan
• Be first point of contact for L&D queries and escalate to relevant person where required
• Update and maintain LEARN system, engaging with GTS and suppliers to ensure system is kept current and relevant
• Manage, track, escalate and own query resolution on LEARN and L&D systems. Analyse data to provide insight and trend themes.
• Subject matter expert on LEARN for HR Teams, being support/escalation point as well as training of new starts
• Responsible for production of regular L&D Compliance reporting (including ML, New Starts, Attendance at Mandatory Learning Workshops), providing insight and commentary.
• Maintain L&D programme data (attendees etc.) to provide reports and insight where required
• Working with L&D/HR Business Partners, site and HR Administrators and external partners to co-ordinate and manage the successful implementation of central L&D programmes and events, leading central programme administration.
• Support administration of global onboarding programme Brand Induction
• Manage, track and report on L&D budget and central programmes including, but not limited to, POs, invoice management, supplier compliance requirements and summary reporting, engaging L&D team with regular updates 

Our Ideal Candidate

Our ideal candidate will have;

·        Experience in using Microsoft Office Applications, particularly Excel, Word and PowerPoint

·        Strong IT/Technical competence with ability to generate reports and analyse data

·        Demonstrable strong organisational and administrative ability

·        Customer focused with experience of interacting with a variety of individuals within a busy environment

·        Event Management with experience of administering multiple learning events from conception to completion.

·        Excellent interpersonal skills.

·        Strong communication skills, both orally and written, with the ability to operate at many levels within the Business

Desirable

·        Awareness of demands of running high quality events and knowledge of operating in a prestigious brand led company

·        Experience of psychometric reporting tools

·        CIPD, or equivalent professional qualification

What we can offer you

• We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
• Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
• Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
• Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
• Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues. 
• Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
• Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
• Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
• Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
• Learning resources to help you be your best self.
• Due to the coronavirus outbreak we are keen to continue to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our employees, while continuing to protect our product. To reduce the risk access to our sites is limited to those essential to our production. All other employees are currently working from home.  

About William Grant & Sons

A HOME FOR RARE CHARACTERS

William Grant & Sons: a home where Rare Characters thrive.

We value every employee for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Every one of our colleagues has a role to play in helping us to achieve our growth ambitions.

At William Grant & Sons, our vision is to be A home where rare characters thrive. We value all colleagues for their rare character, distinctive skills, experience and perspectives. Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We strive to create an environment where we can all be our best and bring our whole selves to work.

OUR AGILE WORKING PHILOSOPHY

Our agile working philosophy is to “Have your best work day everyday”.
Built on trust, we empower our rare characters to have their best work day every day. Where flexibility and positive working experiences help employees to feel connected and release potential across our teams.
We are open to discussing possible agile/flexible working options as part of the recruitment process.

INCLUSIVE RECRUITMENT PROCESS

Diversity & Inclusion is at the heart of how we do things at William Grant & Sons, fully aligned to our purpose and our company values. We want to ensure that our recruitment process is inclusive. If you have any questions or need some support with your application we’d love to hear from you. So please get in touch with our HR team at recruitment.enquiries@wgrant.com.