About Us
At NEXT Wholly Owned Brands, we’re a collective of London-based fashion and lifestyle brands. From our beginnings with Lipsy in 1998, to becoming part of the UK’s largest fashion retailer, NEXT, in 2008 we’ve evolved into a group of bold, design-led brands, each with its unique identity.
At the heart of our business is a passionate team driven by creativity, innovation, and a shared ambition to deliver exceptional results. We foster a culture where individuality is celebrated, curiosity is encouraged, and challenging the status quo is part of how we grow.
Role Purpose
As a Learning & Development Partner, you will take ownership of key learning projects, managing the full learning lifecycle for colleagues across the business. Partnering closely with stakeholders, you will identify learning needs, design and deliver engaging and impactful learning solutions, and evaluate effectiveness to drive continuous improvement.
You will play a key role in embedding a strong learning culture, leveraging tools such as Thrive (LMS) to enhance the colleague experience. With a focus on innovation, you will explore and implement AI, emerging technologies and new learning trends to ensure our approach remains forward-thinking, relevant and effective.
Role Responsibilities
Learning & Development
- Own full learning cycle experience for key learning streams – learning needs analysis, content design and development, delivery, and evaluation
- Stay updated on industry trends, bring new and exciting ideas that challenge the current way we provide learning solutions
- Facilitate workshops for manager and non-manager populations
- Evaluate and report on the impact of training programmes, and use your findings to continuously improve our offering
- Drive a high-engagement learning culture across the business
- Develop learners at all levels of the business, remaining influential and impactful, whoever you’re working with
- Provide individual coaching support to drive development and performance
- Work with partners within the business and HR to design and deliver bespoke solutions and follow-up meetings on strategic deliverables
- Contribute to the performance management process
- Breadth - Support on wider HR projects
- Contribute to the Belonging strategy, delivering tangible solutions that embed inclusion in our company culture
Technical Requirements
- Proven experience owning the full training cycle from identification to impact review
- Confident and engaging facilitation style for diverse audiences
- Strong ability to counsel and influence business partners and colleagues within the wider People Team
- Highly organised with strong planning abilities and a sharp attention to detail
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- High standard of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive information
What Good Looks Like
- Demonstrable ROI and positive impact evaluations of training programmes
- Increased engagement levels within the learning culture across the business
- Successful delivery and promotion of belonging initiatives that show tangible cultural integration
- Strong, collaborative relationships maintained with business partners and the wider HR team
About Us
- 25% off most NEXT, MADE*, Lipsy*, Gap* and Victoria's Secret* products (*when purchased through NEXT)
- 10% off most partner brands & up to 15% off Branded Beauty
- Hot deals and exclusive offers from over 3,500 retailers through our online benefits platform
- Company performance based bonus
- Early VIP access to sale stock via Direct to Desk
- Life assurance
- Sharesave scheme
- Annual Travel Card Loan
- Sample Sales
- Fantastic L&D opportunities
- Flexi-Hour Scheme
- Direct to Work - Discount online and instore, collect your items the next day for free from your place of work or local store
- Support Networks - Access to Network Groups to empower and celebrate each other
- Wellhub - Discounted flexible monthly gym memberships, with apps, PT sessions and more
Skills Required
- Proven experience owning the full training cycle from identification to impact review
- Confident and engaging facilitation style for diverse audiences
- Ability to counsel and influence business partners and colleagues within the People Team
- Highly organised with strong planning abilities and attention to detail
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- High standard of integrity and discretion when handling sensitive information
- Experience providing individual coaching to drive development and performance
- Experience using Thrive or other Learning Management Systems (LMS)
- Experience or interest in implementing AI and emerging learning technologies
What We Do
BD is one of the largest global medical technology companies in the world and is advancing the world of health by improving medical discovery, diagnostics and the delivery of care. The company supports the heroes on the frontlines of health care by developing innovative technology, services and solutions that help advance both clinical therapy for patients and clinical process for health care providers. BD and its 65,000 employees have a passion and commitment to help improve patient outcomes, improve the safety and efficiency of clinicians’ care delivery process, enable laboratory scientists to better diagnose disease and advance researchers’ capabilities to develop the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics. BD has a presence in virtually every country and partners with organizations around the world to address some of the most challenging global health issues. By working in close collaboration with customers, BD can help enhance outcomes, lower costs, increase efficiencies, improve safety and expand access to health care. In 2017, BD welcomed C. R. Bard and its products into the BD family. For more information on BD, please visit bd.com.
