Leadership & Talent Development Manager

Job Title

Leadership & Talent Development Manager

Asda House

Full time

Permanent

37.5

Competitive salary plus benefits

Learning and Development

20 September 2026

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Learning and Development Manager to join our team as Leadership Academy Lead for Asda. In this critical role, you will shape and lead the end-to-end leadership pathway for salaried leaders, making it clear, simple and transparent what leaders need to know, do and behave like from onboarding through to progression.

This role is slightly different to other academy lead roles. You will be both the subject matter expert for leadership and the academy lead for all aspects of what it takes to be a great Asda leader. Working closely with the Leadership Capability Team and People Team SMEs, you will enable the right content to be created, connected and delivered, including the people manager capability needed to bring our HR through-the-line principles to life.

You will have responsibility for leading the Leadership Academy pathway across Asda, ensuring our leadership offer is joined up, relevant and easy to access.

• Lead the Leadership Academy for Asda, owning the end-to-end salaried leadership pathway from onboarding through to progression.
• Make the leadership pathway clear, simple and transparent so leaders know what is expected of them, what support is available and how they can continue to grow.
• Act as the leadership subject matter expert, shaping what great Asda leadership looks like in practice across knowledge, skills, behaviours and day‑to‑day management routines.
• Enable People Team SMEs and business SMEs to create and deliver the right learning content, rather than building everything yourself.
• Lead pathway work through squads, bringing together the right expertise from across the People Team and wider business to solve priority leadership capability gaps.
• Use third‑party designers or specialist partners where additional capacity or expertise is needed to create high‑quality learning experiences.
• Ensure leadership learning connects clearly to our HR through‑the‑line principles and helps leaders become great people managers.
• Support a smaller number of targeted coaching or team coaching interventions where they are the right solution, but with less emphasis on direct coaching delivery.
• Build strong relationships with key stakeholders, ensuring the Leadership Academy is aligned to business priorities and leadership expectations.
• Use data, feedback and insight to evaluate impact, improve the pathway and keep the leadership offer relevant.
• Stay close to external trends and best practice in leadership development, learning design and people management capability.

• Proven experience in a Learning and Development Manager, leadership development, talent, academy, or business partnering role.
• Strong understanding of leadership development and what it takes to build practical, scalable pathways for leaders in a large organisation.
• Experience of shaping clear learning pathways from onboarding through to progression.
• Ability to work through squads and enable subject matter experts to create and deliver learning content.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage, influence and align leaders and SMEs at different levels.
• Experience of working through a large and complex organisation, balancing business priorities with practical delivery.
• Good understanding of learning methodologies, adult learning principles and practical learning design.
• Experience with evaluation techniques and using data, feedback and insight to improve learning pathways and demonstrate impact.
• Coaching experience would be…