The Role
The Commercial Learning & Development team designs and delivers development programmes for all Commercial employees across the business. These programmes are specifically designed to increase and enhance capability across a core set of knowledge and skills. Your team of training managers will support you in this mission, alongside a handful of external providers where required.
You will partner closely with Commercial Leadership to design and deliver programmes that drive the required behaviour change, aligned to our business strategy. You will also work closely with Deliveroo’s Central L&D team, ensuring Commercial capabilities align with the wider Deliveroo learning and development strategy.
Beyond your own function you will be a key member of the Commercial Operations Management Team, reporting to the Commercial Operations Director. As part of this team you will contribute to defining and embedding our broader approach to commercial enablement, making the lives of our commercial teams more efficient and effective, ensuring that Deliveroo is known as the partner of choice to our restaurant, grocery and retail partners.
What you’ll be responsible for
Developing and delivering the commercial L&D curriculum:
1. Define, build and deliver a comprehensive development curriculum that ensures our Commercial employees have the knowledge and skills required to meet our growth objectives and is aligned to our core Commercial Competencies.
2. Define and build a consistent set of Commercial expectations and associated job descriptions for every Commercial role, in partnership with local Commercial leadership.
3. Manage the commercial induction process, ensuring content remains relevant and tailored by market (where applicable) to increase every new joiners’ speed to competence.
4. Where we partner with third-party training providers, manage the end to end relationship, including internal budgeting, consultation on program design, quality assurance and post program analysis.
5. Oversee the design and delivery of in-house programs, ensure alignment with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts and hold your training managers to account on quality assurance and post program analysis.
6. Maintain our LMS and associated content repositories so that Commercial teams can easily access program content and complete mandatory programs and their Leadership understands their teams’ completion against key milestones.
7. Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and ROI of all development programmes, reporting back to external providers and internal leadership, helping to make the case for future investment.
Building, coaching and leading an exceptional team that is engaged, inclusive and high-performing
8. Create a compelling vision with a strong sense of unity and desire to win together
9. Recruit and coach team members that are subject matter experts in their field, with high partner and customer centricity.
10. Foster collaboration throughout the organisation, understanding the benefit and importance of strong functional and cross-market collaboration.
Key Competencies
11. Problem-Solving & Strategic Thinking: Consistently applies structured thinking to own and others' work. Provides thoughtful frameworks for weighing tradeoffs in unclear situations. Drives forward-thinking analyses. Coaches others in building blocks of strategic thinking. Understands the strategic implications of their work. Is able to anticipate risks and suggest ways to mitigate.
12. Project Management: Ability to manage and progress a multiple, complex projects in parallel that involve multiple stakeholders across markets and other Deliveroo functions
13. Delivery: Sets clear performance management framework and routines to ensure objectives are met, with escalation routes in place to resolve off-track issues. Builds a performance culture that celebrates successes while learning from mistakes whilst avoiding a “blame culture”.
14. Change Management: Utilises a range of proven techniques to manage a diverse team through a series of change such that they consistently adopt new ways of working and the tools that support them
15. Communication & Influence: Builds trust and influence through structured, data-driven communication. Makes even the most complex information clear. Collaborates effectively across a wide range of teams and stakeholder groups. Demonstrates a confident presentation style and communicates effectively upwards and downwards.
16. Team Development: A team player who readily collaborates cross-functionally and can resolve areas of misalignment or conflict between teams. Provides regular, constructive feedback to teammates to support team growth and talent retention. Effectively manages difficult interpersonal situations within the team.
17. Community-Building: Actively participates in activities that strengthen Deliveroo (e.g. onboarding, training, mentoring, diversity and inclusion). Encourages team participation. Plays a growing role in attracting and hiring talent.
Why Deliveroo?
Our mission is to transform the way you shop and eat, bringing the neighbourhood to your door by connecting consumers, restaurants, shops and riders.. We are transforming the way the world eats and shops by making access to food and products more convenient and enjoyable.
We give people the opportunity to buy what they want, as they want it, when and where they want it.
Workplace and Diversity
At Deliveroo we know that people are the heart of the business and we prioritise their welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including health, family, finance, community, convenience, growth, time away and relocation.
We believe a great workplace is one that represents the world we live in and how beautifully diverse it can be. That means we have no judgement when it comes to any one of the things that make you who you are - your gender, race, sexuality, religion or a secret aversion to coriander. All you need is a passion for (most) food and a desire to be part of one of the fastest growing startups in an incredibly exciting space.
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