HEAD OF LEARNING & DEVELOPMENT
LONDON
EXPERIENCE-LED. FAST-GROWING. PEOPLE-FOCUSED. BLANK CANVAS.
What’s in it for you?
- Salary up to £70,000
- Genuine opportunity to build an L&D function from scratch
- High visibility role with real influence across the business
- Work closely with senior leadership during a major growth phase
- Backing and investment to modernise people practices properly
- A business that values operational reality over corporate process
- Opportunity to shape leadership capability across a multi-site estate
Who are they?
This is a modern leisure and hospitality business built around entertainment, hospitality, and social experiences all under one roof. With significant investment secured and ambitious expansion plans ahead, the business is entering a major period of growth and transformation. They’re focused on building a stronger, more consistent culture across the estate, improving leadership capability, and creating people practices that genuinely support operational performance. Fast-paced, commercially minded, and operationally driven, this is a business that wants practical solutions, not training for the sake of it.
What will you get up to?
- Build and implement the L&D strategy from the ground up
- Audit existing training across the business and identify capability gaps
- Develop leadership and management development programmes that actually land operationally
- Create practical tools, frameworks, and learning resources managers will genuinely use
- Partner closely with HR and Operations to improve performance and consistency across sites
- Embed learning into day-to-day operations rather than standalone training sessions
- Review and streamline existing external training provision
- Challenge where training isn’t the real issue and influence better business decisions
- Help shape a high-performing culture as the business continues to scale
What are we looking for?
- Proven experience building or transforming L&D functions
- Strong background in hospitality, leisure, retail, or other multi-site operational environments
- Comfortable operating in a standalone, hands-on role
- Someone commercially aware who understands how learning impacts performance
- Confident stakeholder manager who can challenge constructively when needed
- Pragmatic, adaptable, and able to work at pace
- A visible operator who understands what works on the floor, not just on paper
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