Head of Learning and Development at Retail Insights

About the role

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment, where you gain a tremendous amount of responsibility? Do you want to be part of an exceptional entrepreneurial team with young, motivated and extremely driven people? And are you curious or passionate about people? If so, you might be our next Head of Learning and Development.</span></p> <p><strong>About us</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Retail Insights is Northern Europe’s leading retail forum. We are strengthening the retail ecosystem by building a platform for insights, inspiration, and networking, connecting more than 3,000 leaders yearly from more than 15 countries.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Retail Insights is part of United Media (</span><a href="https://www.united-media.com/"><span style="font-weight: 400;">https://www.united-media.com/</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">) which focuses on building large scale industry media and conferences products in sectors such as insurance, HR, private equity, retail, etc. As of today, we have organically launched 8 media companies and acquired one.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>What we offer you</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As our Head of Learning and Development you get the unique opportunity of being a key driver of our exponential growth curve.&nbsp; You’ll be working in-person in your HQ in London where you will constantly be pushed out of your comfort zone. To ensure a never ending growth curve, we provide you with:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Opportunity of having a real impact - You’ll be getting operational experience in a start-up where both your work and the results are highly tangible and matter to the business.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspiration and guidance - A chance to work closely with our high performing team as well as with the CEO and founder of our company.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Unlimited growth potential in our company - we strongly believe in and have a track record of promoting internally.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Travel opportunity: You would be joining our conferences overseas.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Invaluable transferable skills - boost your interpersonal, research, organisation, outreach and project management skills through experience and training.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Your Responsibilities</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Responsibilities in this job will vary as a reflection of the evolving business needs however, they will be mostly centred around:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building the most progressive learning and development opportunity for team members across levels of experience.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Thinking progressively about how we can achieve our ambitious company goals through equipping our amazing employees with the right tools to achieve their goals.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Developing and implementing strategic plans for learning and development, including identifying training needs and developing training programs to address them.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Creating development programs that empower the team to continuously overdeliver and deliver 7-star experiences across business areas.&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Identifying and driving synergies across business functions.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">To dream big and pursue it relentlessly!</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What we expect from you</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weigh

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