Leadership Development Manager
| Posting date: | 22 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 January 2026 |
| Location: | Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, AL7 1GA |
| Company: | Tesco |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | tesco/TP/12955979/968381 |
Summary
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Talent and Capability Practice of Expertise (PoE).
In this role you will lead the design and delivery of a group wide leadership development strategy for Tesco, that equips leaders with the right skills, behaviours to deliver our strategic priorities, lead an inclusive and high performing culture.
With significant experience in end to end leadership development for senior leaders, alongside experience of creating and implementing aligned and meaningful development strategies that enhance Tesco culture, you\'ll be a thought leader in this area and be able to balance a more strategic perspective with delivery of future fit solutions.
You\'ll need proven Exec level stakeholder management experience and will be able to influence and drive engagement and agreement for group wide programmes of work.
You will be responsible for
1. The successful delivery of an innovative and leading edge leadership development offer that cultivates an inclusive, high performing and future focused culture.
2. Building future capabilities skills and values required of our leadership population, ensuring a sustainable and high quality and value add learning offer is developed. Use latest thinking and external insight / connections to inform the work, ensuring best in class interventions.
3. Leading and managing the core director learning curriculum, which includes director\'s induction. To deliver content that aligns to our biggest opportunities and strategic priorities
4. Deliver and facilitate online and face to face learning events with senior stakeholders and leaders across the group.
5. Contribution to the overall leadership, talent development and culture strategy, designed to ensure we build strong pipelines of leaders for now and the future, in service of our long-term strategic priorities.
- Support the broader delivery of the group capability strategy and wider PoE, aligning leadership development and culture to our core manager and colleague learning offer. alongside working with OD, SWP and Learning Services in order to realise our long term vision for learning at Tesco.
- Embed Inclusion into everything we do, aligning our leadership and culture plans to the group DE&I strategy, ensuring delivery of shared priorities. .
- Champion and role model our Win Together behaviours and values, contributing to a cultural change programme across the Tesco group, building solutions that will drive cultural change across Tesco and actively drive a learning culture.
- Critically review and evaluate existing development solutions and make sound recommendations for changes. Share evaluation data back with relevant stakeholders
- Partner across markets and with senior stakeholders to ensure the central management development offer is embedded effectively across all markets
- Work with learning tech / tech teams to ensure all content is inclusive and accessible, and support and inform the long term learning tech plans.
- Engage and manage relationships with external partners in line with internal standard process, ensuring they deliver value for money
- Be agile and responsive to the changing needs of the business and colleagues we serve
You will need
- Setting group wide strategies and gaining engagement, buy-in and sign off at exec level
- Proven cultural and behavioural change experience across the whole learning cycle LNA, design, delivery and evaluation at senior leadership level
- Strong learning design across a variety of formats and levels - virtual, blended, online, both working with suppliers and building in-house solutions
- Proven understanding of diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities
- Demonstrable knowledge of current leadership and exec development interventions, providers and thought leaders in common areas of leadership (finance, commercial acumen etc)
- Senior stakeholder management, in particular building trusted relationships with a diverse group of international stakeholders
- Ability to think beyond the here and now - connecting learning to the wider business context.
What’s in it for you
We’re all about the little helps. That’s why we make sure our Tesco colleague benefits package takes care of you – both in and out of work. Click Here to find out more!
- Annual bonus scheme of up to 20% of base salary
- Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays)
- Private medical insurance
- 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (after 1 years’ service) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave
- Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing
About us
Tesco has become a market leader by doing the little things that really matter for our customers and colleagues.
It’s part of what makes Tesco such a great place to work, and we’re proud to have been accredited as one of Britain’s Top Employers again this year.
We're the UK's number one retailer and we pride ourselves on offering a great shopping experience. We are passionate about our food, merchandise and services and will always try to get things right for our customers.
But did you know we also offer great job opportunities? With stores, distribution centres and offices across the UK, and a vast variety of roles, we are always looking for people who have a hunger to work with customers and colleagues across our exciting business.
We believe in treating each other with respect and giving everyone an equal opportunity to get on. It's our people that make the difference every day - helping us make a difference for our customers
Should you be successful in your application, your offer will be subject to and conditional upon you providing your bank account details before your agreed start date.
For more information about us please visit www.tescoplc.com
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