Learning and Development Specialist

Location: Nigel

Purpose of the Role:

At Dis-Chem Life, training is the engine that transforms potential into performance. This is not a coordination or administrative role. It is a position of strategic ownership, accountability, and instructional excellence that ensures our people have the competencies, confidence, and structure they need to deliver exceptional results across our core business units.

Your mission: to drive structure, consistency, quality, and governance across all training streams. You will own the LMS end-to-end, manage trainers, and ensure that training consistently produces competent, high-performing team members who meet and exceed business expectations.

Role

Summary:

The Learning and Development Specialist is responsible for owning the LMS, designing and governing the full training curriculum, establish quality standards, drive adoption of learning technology platforms, alignment in training delivery to business priorities, building competency frameworks, and managing trainers to ensure training translates into measurable performance outcomes.

To succeed, you must be highly proficient in instructional design, content creation, facilitation, competency framework development, and advanced eLearning technology. You will take full ownership of training outcomes, trainer management, content quality, and performance measurement - ensuring training drives measurable improvements and consistently produces high-performing team members.

This role demands a passionate, high-energy, well-rounded L&D professional with exceptional content expertise and the ability to drive structure, innovation, and measurable results across the business.

Benefits:

- Competitive Salary
- Opportunity to build and scale the LMS from the ground up
- Shape the future of learning and development across a fast-growing business
- Access to ongoing L&D conferences, certifications, and professional development
- Lead strategic initiatives that directly impact business performance and team capability
- Work with visionary leadership committed to building a world-class training function

Key Responsibilities:

Team Leadership and Delivery Management

- Lead, manage and coach the Training team (trainers/facilitators, instructional designer(s), eLearning developer(s) as applicable)
- Set team goals, standards, capacity planning, delivery schedules, and performance management
- Drive consistent training quality across teams, channels, and programmes
- Create a structured learning pipeline (intake → design → build → sign-off → publish → measure → improve)

Learning Strategy and Programme Ownership

- Own the full learning strategy for induction, product/process training, CX training, compliance training, and role-based learning paths
- Translate business priorities into learning roadmaps aligned to KPIs (QA outcomes, compliance adherence, productivity, NPS/CSAT, NTU/retentions - where relevant)
- Ensure training is practical, scenario-led, and designed for real performance across the various business units

Instructional Design and eLearning Leadership

- Oversee and/or personally design storyboards, learning journeys, and assessment frameworks
- Ensure content is built to high standards (clear outcomes, practice-based learning, effective assessments, remediation paths)
- Guide development of digital assets: microlearning, interactive modules, animated explainers, job aids, playbooks, and quizzes
- Ensure content is user-friendly, visually aligned, and accessible

LMS Ownership and Governance

- Own and manage the LMS end-to-end:

- User management, access control and role-based permissions

- Learning pathways, cohorts, assignments, and completion rules

- Assessments, pass marks, reattempt rules, certification and re-certification

- Reporting dashboards and evidence of learning (audit readiness)

- Maintain strong LMS governance: version control, publishing standards, archiving outdated content, change logs
- Partner with IT/Systems and vendors to manage enhancements, integrations, and platform performance

Compliance Alignment and Quality Control

- Ensure all training content and assessments are compliant, accurate, and signed off where required.
- Build a clear sign-off…