At William Grant & Sons, learning is how we build capability, grow talent and create a high-performing organisation, not an add-on.
As a Learning & Development Manager, you will partner with Business Units, HR colleagues and leaders to shape capability solutions that strengthen performance today and prepare our organisation for the future.
This is a highly collaborative role, working across the business to identify critical capability gaps, translate business priorities into development roadmaps and ensure learning investment delivers measurable impact. You'll play a key role in embedding the William Grant Way, supporting competency frameworks and driving the consistent application of learning processes and standards across the organisation.
If you enjoy combining solutions thinking with practical delivery, influencing stakeholders and building capability that makes a real difference to business performance, this role offers the opportunity to do exactly that.
Key responsibilities
You will partner with Business Units and HR teams to understand capability priorities, identify critical competency gaps and develop learning and development roadmaps aligned to business objectives and the William Grant Way.
You'll support the implementation of competency frameworks, provide expert guidance on learning and development processes and ensure consistent application of L&D principles and standards across the business. You'll work closely with leaders to understand performance challenges, provide insight into capability needs and help shape practical development solutions that build individual and organisational capability.
Day to day, you'll coordinate the delivery and implementation of development programmes, support internal trainers through coaching and feedback, track learning plans and budgets, facilitate core programmes and evaluate programme effectiveness to ensure learning translates into improved performance and stronger talent pipelines. You'll also gather and share insights that continually improve the quality, relevance and impact of learning across William Grant & Sons.
About you
Our Ideal Candidate
About You
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Experience in learning and development, organisational capability or talent development within a business-facing role or Centre of Excellence
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Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to build trusted relationships across multiple levels of the organisation.
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Experience identifying capability gaps and translating business needs into practical learning and development solutions.
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Comfortable working with competency frameworks, learning processes and data-driven decision-making.
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Strong coaching, facilitation and communication skills, with the ability to support leaders and internal trainers to build capability.
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Collaborative and inclusive, role-modelling behaviours that support an empowered, high-performing culture.
Why Join William Grant & Sons
We are an independent, family-owned business with a long-term view and a strong sense of purpose. You'll join a collaborative and supportive Learning & Development team, working with passionate people who are committed to building capability, growing talent and helping the business succeed.
At WG&S, we embrace difference, think long term and encourage people to be proud, entrepreneurial, responsible and professional in how they show up every day. Together, we create an environment where people can continuously learn, develop and perform at their best.
Reward and benefits
- We offer a competitive salary and benefits which are designed to promote our employees financial wellbeing. Employees are also eligible to participate in a bonus plan.
- Our employees enjoy a generous holiday entitlement and an opportunity to ‘buy’ or ‘sell’ some holiday entitlement.
- Private Healthcare and Doctor@Hand (remote GP service).
- Our employees can join a defined contribution pension plan. Employees contribute either 4% or 5% of salary, the company contributes 8% or 10% depending on the employee contribution. Employee contributions can be made through salary sacrifice.
- Our Employee Assistance Programme offers practical, impartial support on everyday matters ranging from medical, financial and legal to home and family issues.
- Our Life Assurance cover is a multiple of eight times your annual basic salary.
- Product allocation so that you can enjoy our fantastic portfolio of brands.
- Our Cycle to Work scheme allows you to hire a bike for an agreed length of time, and then snap it up for a fraction of its original value. All while making savings (at least 25%) and spreading the cost.
- Every employee has the opportunity to claim up to £1,000 per year for a charity or charities for which they have raised money, volunteered their time or personally donated.
- Learning resources to help you be your best self.
