Working within the Merchandising department, you will support the development, preparation, and delivery of a sustainable training program and technical content to support rapid business growth and change. Working collaboratively with the Merchandising teams and relevant business areas, you will input into the delivery of new and innovative learning solutions to provide consistent best practice and ways of working within Merchandising and aid ongoing training and development for the individual and teams.

· Job Title – Group Merchandising Training & Development Advisor

· Location – JD Group Hollins Brook Way, Pilsworth, Bury, BL9 8RR

· Working rota – Monday to Friday

· Working hours – 8:30am to 5:00pm, 40 hours per week

What You'll Be Doing:

As a Group Merchandising Training & Development Advisor , you'll be doing the following:

Produce reports on training and development activity using agreed performance indicators.
Translate merchandising business process into relevant training content.
Create high quality training content documentation for new and existing merchandising processes.
Engage with subject matter experts to capture- translate subject matter expert dialogue into relevant training content- review and sign off training guide content.
Create engaging and relevant resources using content creators, considering design relevance.
Coordinate refresher training cycle.
Support on projects including content creation, workshop resources and facilitation.
Deliver training workshops for the Merchandising teams.
Conduct follow up activity to ensure impact after workshop delivery to inform future learning needs and continuous improvement.
Oversee merchandising new starter onboarding process.
Oversee merchandising new starter onboarding workshop.
Attend group central merchandising meeting, collaborate and contribute.
Ownership of key communication updates via training email.
Manage deadlines and update progress using Click Up.
Role model a growth mindset throughout the department by staying up to date with, and applying, current theory within Learning and Development.
Build understanding of merchandising dept/lifecycle.

What We're Looking For:

Well organised with strong attention to detail.
Ability to coordinate and prioritise different activities effectively.
Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills, both verbal and written.
Strong Microsoft Office skills, particularly PowerPoint.
Experience of training platforms and content creators to create training resources.
Able to take ownership of work and use initiative to deliver on key responsibilities.
Good teamwork skills, being able to work collaboratively to reach a common goal, sharing information and supporting colleagues.
Positive, flexible, and responsive to business needs.
Curious with a continuous learning mindset.

This is a great opportunity for a motivated and professional individual with a keen interest in training and development. With problem-solving skills and a ‘can-do’ approach, we are looking for candidates both experienced or someone relatively new in their T&D career who is enthusiastic to learn and wants to develop their skills and knowledge whilst supporting the Merchandising teams.

The Company:

The JD Group is a leading omnichannel retailer of Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 90,000 colleagues over 4,500 stores across several retail fascia's in over 36 countries around the world.

We are an equal opportunities employer who embraces and values differences. We recognise the importance of an inclusive workplace culture in which everyone can thrive irrespective of their background or identity.

To be a part of this successful and continuously growing company, you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people first, a digital leader and customer focused organisation which provides operational excellence and is continuous with identifying new areas of growth into our day-to-day.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

Incremental Holiday Allowance
Staff Discount on qualifying purchases across Group retail stores and online
Exclusive Colleague Bike Discount scheme
Discounted Gym membership
Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work
Access to Apprenticeships and accredited qualifications

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, then press the Apply Now button.

Due to the high volumes of applications our opportunities attract, it takes time to review them all. If you don't hear back within two weeks of your application, please consider your application to have been unsuccessful on this occasion

Applications that meet the skills criteria will be contacted for a 1st stage meeting with the talent team. Shortlisted candidates will then be invited to interview with the hiring manager.

Thank you again for your time.

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