Product Learning Specialist - Learning & Development

Leicester, England, United Kingdom

4/15/2025

Job Description

Product Learning Specialist - Partners and Wholly owned brands

Product Learning and Development

Let's Take it On

£30,000 - £43,000

Head Office, Leicester with regular travel to partner sites.

Working Pattern: Typically 5 days in office, with core hours flexible between 8am-6pm.

Shape the Future of Talent in Product

Join our dynamic Product Learning & Development team and be at the forefront of transforming our learning and development offering for both our internal product teams and valued partners. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role in developing future talent and upskilling existing employees at all levels. If you're passionate about growth, impact, and being part of a forward-thinking team, this is the challenge for you..

Your role:

As a Product Learning Specialist, you will be instrumental in empowering our partner and wholly-owned brand merchandising teams. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Delivering impactful training: Providing comprehensive system training (Stock Planning, Line Flow, Range Builder) alongside merchandising theory and best practices to partner merchandising teams.
• Designing engaging learning experiences: Creating effective and tailored training materials specifically for our partner product teams.
• Facilitating seamless integration: Supporting the successful integration of our product systems with partner operations.
• Championing our Learning Experience Platform: Assisting with the implementation of our new Thrive platform for partners, including designing, uploading, and managing partner-specific content.
• Driving partner success: Identifying onboarding challenges, sharing best practices, and pinpointing knowledge gaps to optimise partner workflows and trading strategies.
• Building strong relationships: Developing strong networks and effectively influencing stakeholders within partner organisations. This client-facing role requires regular travel between our Enderby office and partner sites, with the flexibility to be away from home for consecutive days when delivering on-site training.
• Contributing to internal development: Occasionally delivering job-specific and merchandising skills training to trainees and assistant-level employees within NEXT as part of our new Product Academy.
  
  

What You'll Bring:

• You are a dynamic and creative individual who thrives on taking initiative and being proactive.
• You are driven by the opportunity to make a tangible impact through the training and development of others.
• A strong background in merchandising and a deep understanding of our product systems and processes are essential.
• While an L&D background isn't mandatory, experience in training or mentoring team members would be advantageous.
• You possess excellent communication skills, including strong questioning techniques and the ability to explain complex information clearly and concisely.
• Patience, resilience, and confidence are key attributes.
• You have the ability to connect with and inspire individuals at all levels within partner organisations.
• You have a genuine passion for building and developing training programmes that empower others to grow and succeed.
• You are a collaborative and enthusiastic team player who takes ownership of projects.
• Crucially, you are agile and flexible in your approach, adapting to the unique and evolving needs of our partners.
• You are forward-thinking and innovative, constantly seeking ways to improve and enhance the partner learning experience.
  
  

Ready to Make a Real Impact?

If you are a driven and creative individual with a passion for merchandising and developing others, we encourage you to apply. Join us in shaping the future of talent within our product teams and partner network!

Your Benefits (take Out For Internal)

We’ll discuss more of what you’ll get when you work for Next at interview, but here’s an overview of what you can expect:

• Profit–related bonus
• 25 days holiday and the opportunity to buy more
• Contributions into a pension scheme
• Life assurance
• Sharesave scheme, which allows you to invest in Next and claim your share of our success
• Staff shop
• 25% staff discount on most Next products – either in our stores or delivered directly to your desk
• On-site nursery (salary sacrifice scheme) in Leicester
• National and local discounts on goods and services
• A digital GP healthcare service
  
  

Sponsorship

Candidates wishing to apply who would require sponsorship for this role will be required to meet the Home Office sponsorship requirements. For further information please see: https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa .

We aim to support all candidates during the application process and are happy to provide workplace adjustments when necessary. Should you need support with your application due to a disability or long-term condition, feel free to get in touch with us by email [email protected] (please include 'Workplace Adjustments' in the subject line), or call us on 0116 284 2486 and leave a voicemail.

We encourage early applications for our roles, as our recruitment process begins as soon as the role is advertised. If we successfully fill the position, this advert may close earlier than planned

About Us

You know Next, but did you know we’re a FTSE-100 retail company employing over 35,000 people across the UK and Ireland. We’re the UK’s 2nd largest fashion retailer and for Kidswear we’re the market leader. At the last count we have over 500 stores, plus the Next Online and it’s now possible to buy on-line from over 70 countries around the world! So we’ve gone global!