Learning and Development Consultant (Permanent)

Join our Learning & Development TeamSoftcat's Learning & Development team sits within a wider People & Property department consisting of People Operations, People Business Partners, Reward, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Engagement. The purpose of the L&D team is to champion a learning culture that empowers employees to reach their potential and drive high performance at Softcat. The L&D team plays an influential part in our business, ensuring that Softcat succeeds through our people Success. It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the 1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. Enabling Sales Excellence through strategic learning and developmentAs a Learning & Development Consultant, you'll partner with senior leaders and sales teams to identify capability needs, improve performance and deliver learning solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Using a performance consulting approach, you'll uncover root causes, shape capability strategies and create targeted upskilling plans aligned to business goals. You'll build trusted relationships, influence stakeholders and measure the impact of learning to ensure lasting performance improvement.As a Learning & Development Consultant, you'll be responsible for: Building trusted relationships with senior leaders and sales teams, acting as a strategic advisor on capability and performanceIdentifying capability gaps and creating targeted upskilling strategies that drive sales performance and business outcomesDelivering impactful facilitation, coaching and learning solutions that build skills, confidence and capabilityLeading end to end capability programmes, ensuring successful delivery and measurable resultsInfluencing stakeholders and shaping capability decisions through a performance consulting approachManaging internal resources and external partners to maximise impact, value and business performanceWe'd love you to have Demonstrating exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility, influence and challenge constructively at all levelsApplying strong commercial awareness and performance consulting expertise to identify capability needs and deliver effective business-focused solutionsCreating and owning capability strategies, upskilling plans and development initiatives that drive measurable performance outcomesFacilitating engaging learning experiences and providing coaching across virtual and face to face environments to support capability growth and behaviour changeMeasuring impact through data and insights, using evaluation outcomes to continuously improve learning solutions and capability decisionsManaging multiple capability programmes, stakeholders and external partners, while balancing business priorities and delivering high quality results in a fast-paced commercial environmentWe also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply - we would love to hear from you!In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns: Hybrid working - 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs Working with us Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. If you have a disability or neurodiversity, we can provide support or adjustments that you may need throughout our recruitment process or any mitigating circumstance you wish for us to consider. You can find out more about life at Softcat and our commitments to diversity and inclusion at jobs.softcat.com/jobs/our-culture/ Here at Softcat, we don't prohibit the use of AI (artificial intelligence) in our application process, as we understand how far it can go to creating a truly equitable candidate experience. Location:Birmingham, Manchester, Marlow Business Function:People & Property Full time or Part time?:Full Time Vacancy Type:Permanent