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About the Role

Vanderlande is seeking a Team Lead who combines strong learning expertise with people leadership. This role will shape and deliver impactful learning solutions while leading and developing a small team of Learning Consultants and/or coordinators. The focus is on the full scope of learning, ensuring teams have the required knowledge, certifications, and capabilities to work safely, compliant, and effectively.

Responsibilities

Act as the link between business strategy, compliance requirements, and learning execution.
Translate safety, regulatory, and capability needs into clear, scalable learning solutions.
Create a structured, motivating, and high-performing team environment.
Own and develop a learning portfolio that supports business, service, and capability priorities.
Analyze learning needs with stakeholders.
Design and govern learning solutions based on the 70:20:10 learning principle.
Ensure learning curricula, materials, and pathways are up to date, scalable, relevant, and accessible in the LMS.
Drive continuous improvement using learning data.
Manage and collaborate with internal trainers and external learning suppliers.
Lead, coach, and develop a small team of Learning Consultants and/or L&D coordinators.
Set clear priorities, roles, and expectations within the team.
Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Support professional and personal development through coaching and feedback.
Act as the first point of contact for day-to-day team matters and escalations.
Ensure learning solutions align with UK & global standards and policies.
Act as a trusted advisor to management on learning strategy and capability development.
Balance global standardization with local business needs.
Align and collaborate with Global Academy/Global L&D department.
Contribute to Service Excellence within the region to focus on and increase impact on safe and compliant ways of working for operational onsite teams.

Requirements

Proven experience as a Learning Consultant, Learning Professional, or L&D Specialist.
Experience within Service, Operations, Engineering, or Technical environments.
Experience or clear potential in people leadership or team coordination.
Strong consultancy skills: able to translate business needs into learning solutions.
Affinity with data-driven decision-making and continuous improvement.
Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
Comfortably operating in a global, multicultural environment.
Familiarity with Workday Learning, Visma Plusport LMS and/or other SCORM (Learning Management System).
Experience working with external training suppliers or global learning programs.

Skills

Learning expertise
People leadership
Learning consultancy
Stakeholder management
Data-driven decision-making
Continuous improvement
Communication

Location

Heathrow - London

Work Type

Permanent

Experience Level

Team Lead
People leadership
Team coordination

Benefits

28 days annual leave (excluding public holidays)
Aviva Medical Cover & Pension
YuLife – Wellbeing membership with fast access to GP appointments, promotion of health and wellbeing along with daily quests to gain Yucoins that can be swapped for shopping vouchers
Challenging work environment with lots of opportunities of career progression.
Cycle to work scheme
Yellow Nest is a salary sacrifice scheme that reduces childcare costs for parents and employers
Access to Achievers an award-winning recognition platform that inspires to recognise your coworkers Where points are awarded that can be exchanged for a range of goods and discounts.

About the Company

Vanderlande is the global market leader in automation systems and solutions for customers within the Airports, Parcel & Warehousing sectors striving to improve the competitiveness of our customers through Value Added logistic process automation.

Equal Opportunity

Vanderlande is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will be considered without regards to race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age marital status or disability status. If you feel there is a barrier that potentially prevents you from applying, we are always happy to discuss or explore, any reasonable adjustments can be made to support your application.