Yeo Valley Production Ltd
L&D Specialist
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At Yeo Valley, we're about more than just making great food - we're here to Nurture & Nourish People & Planet by Making Great Food the Right Way. Forever. As a co-owned business, we invest in our people, encourage growth, and believe in doing things properly.
Role Overview
As a Learning Specialist at Yeo Valley, you will play a critical role in diagnosing capability needs, designing high-quality learning solutions, curating relevant content, and supporting impactful development across the business.
Working closely with People Partners, Site Leaders and Subject Matter Experts, you will ensure learning initiatives are strategically aligned, practically relevant and engaging for our co-owners.
This role requires strong capability in learning design, digital learning, stakeholder partnering and content curation, supporting a culture of continuous improvement and co-ownership.
The primary focus of the role is the design, curation and development of learning solutions and pathways, with approximately 70% of time focused on learning design and content development, and 30% supporting facilitation and delivery activities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop blended learning solutions using sound instructional design principles, including digital, virtual and face-to-face learning.
- Curate and organise internal and external learning content into structured role-based learning pathways aligned to business priorities and capability needs.
- Design and produce practical digital and video learning content, including explainers, skills demonstrations, assessments, and toolkits.
- Conduct learning needs analysis to identify capability gaps and recommend appropriate learning solutions.
- Partner with People Partners, managers and site leaders to align learning solutions with operational and strategic priorities, supporting capability growth across the business.
- Facilitate engaging and inclusive virtual and face-to-face workshops and learning sessions.
- Evaluate learning effectiveness and continuously improve learning solutions using learner feedback, insight and performance data.
- Maintain awareness of emerging L&D practices, digital learning trends and instructional design approaches.
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Qualifications and Experience
- Proven experience designing blended learning solutions within an FMCG environment.
- Strong understanding of instructional design principles and the full learning development lifecycle.
- Experience curating internal and external learning content into structured learning pathways and journeys.
- Experience creating practical digital and video-based learning content.
- Familiarity with lightweight video and digital content tools such as Camtasia, Riverside, Adobe Express or similar platforms.
- Experience facilitating both behavioural and technical learning interventions.
- Strong facilitation skills with the ability to engage a range of audiences.
- Ability to build effective working relationships with stakeholders across operational and support functions.
- CIPD Level 5 qualification, or equivalent L&D professional qualification.
- Confident using Microsoft Office applications, including PowerPoint, Excel and Word.
- Effective written, verbal and presentation communication skills.
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About Yeo Valley
We’re independent, British and proud to be making the highest quality yogurts, desserts and ice cream under the Yeo Valley brand and for many of the UK’s major retailers. Operating from four dairies and two logistics centres in Somerset and Devon, we employ over 1900 staff and produce more than 25% of the UK’s packaged yogurt.
Benefits
We’re sure you don’t need convincing, but there’s a whole host of benefits that we offer. It goes without saying that you'll have access to free parking, top of the range personal protection equipment (PPE) and your own locker. You'll also receive the following:
- Competitive holiday allowance
- Non-contributory pension scheme
- Life cover
- Healthcare cash back plan
- Cycle to work scheme
- Subsidised Yeo Valley products and services
- Preferential rates with our partners
- Learning and development opportunities; we’re committed to ensuring all of our employees have the chance to grow
Our closing dates are a guide for when the application window should close, although we may close the advert sooner if we can. So, we recommend you get your application in straight away - and don’t miss the opportunity to join us!
Unfortunately, we’re not able to provide employment sponsorship to candidates at this moment in time.
Please note that Yeo Valley do not accept speculative agency applications; we will only accept applications from preferred suppliers that have been submitted to us via our recruitment portal at the point of instruction.
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