Learning & Development Consultant

Position: Learning & Development Consultant
Do you want to make change happen by joining a team that never stands still?  

Do you enjoy working as part of an enthusiastic, passionate, and collaborative team?

Join our Learning & Development Team

Softcat's Learning & Development team sits within a wider People & Property department consisting of People Operations, People Business Partners, Reward, Talent Acquisition, Diversity & Inclusion and Employee Engagement. The purpose of the L&D team is to champion a learning culture that empowers employees to reach their potential and drive high performance at Softcat.  The L&D team plays an influential part in our business, ensuring that Softcat succeeds through our people

Success. The Softcat Way.

It's an exciting time to be at Softcat, one of the UK's most successful technology solutions businesses. We help customers to use technology to succeed, by putting our employees first. We've reached the £1 billion+ pa revenue milestone, opened our first office outside the UK and picked up a series of industry awards. We've got even bigger plans for the future.

So, if you share our drive and ambition, get ready to achieve more from your career.

Enabling Sales Excellence through strategic learning and development

As a Learning & Development Consultant, you'll partner with senior leaders and sales teams to identify capability needs, improve performance and deliver learning solutions that drive measurable business outcomes. Using a performance consulting approach, you'll uncover root causes, shape capability strategies and create targeted upskilling plans aligned to business goals. You'll build trusted relationships, influence stakeholders and measure the impact of learning to ensure lasting performance improvement.

As a Learning & Development Consultant, you'll be responsible for:

Building trusted relationships with senior leaders and sales teams, acting as a strategic advisor on capability and performance

Identifying capability gaps and creating targeted upskilling strategies that drive sales performance and business outcomes

Delivering impactful facilitation, coaching and learning solutions that build skills, confidence and capability

Leading end to end capability programmes, ensuring successful delivery and measurable results

Influencing stakeholders and shaping capability decisions through a performance consulting approach

Managing internal resources and external partners to maximise impact, value and business performance

We'd love you to have

Demonstrating exceptional stakeholder management skills, with the ability to build credibility, influence and challenge constructively at all levels

Applying strong commercial awareness and performance consulting expertise to identify capability needs and deliver effective business-focused solutions

Creating and owning capability strategies, upskilling plans and development initiatives that drive measurable performance outcomes

Facilitating engaging learning experiences and providing coaching across virtual and face to face environments to support capability growth and behaviour change

Measuring impact through data and insights, using evaluation outcomes to continuously improve learning solutions and capability decisions

Managing multiple capability programmes, stakeholders and external partners, while balancing business priorities and delivering high quality results in a fast-paced commercial environment

We also acknowledge that the confidence gap and imposter syndrome are a real thing and can get in the way of us meeting fantastic talent, so please don't hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

Work in a way that works for you  

We recognise that everyone is different and that the way in which people want to work and deliver at their best is different for everyone too. In this role, we can offer the following flexible working patterns:  

Hybrid working – 3 days in the office and 2 days working from home  

Working flexible hours - flexing the times you start and finish during the day  

Flexibility around school pick up and drop offs

Working with us  

Wherever you work, we want you to experience the freedom and autonomy to realise your potential. You will feel supported…