Learning and Development Specialist

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, complianc
  
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