Start an exciting new chapter in your hospitality career at Hickory's Smokehouse - BBQ is happiness!

Join us as a Learning & Development Training Manager and we can offer you a package of up to £35,000 plus a car allowance contribution!

Are you driven by developing others? Are you a person that can inspire, coach and motivate? We are looking for a Learning & Development Training Manager who can embrace our ‘Southern Hospitality’ mindset and help us to bring our authentic southern style food and hospitality to the UK. If you hold the qualities to develop others and deliver a personalised, top-class service, then you might have the spark we are looking for!

Essential requirements of a successful Hickory’s Learning & Development Training Manager:

To be an ambassador for our culture and values, always portraying an authentic positive attitude.
To be a champion of standards, professionality, and a go-to person for our team members and HQ team, you are a role model that everyone aspires to be like.
Embody the 5 stars into everything you do as a trainer, coach and role model, innovate ways in which they can be implemented within your job role and coach them across the teams and restaurants.
Support the design and delivery of a wide range of Learning and Training projects using your incredible communication skills.
To champion all learning, training and wider company initiatives to ensure engagement within our teams.
To support, deliver and facilitate the delivery of developmental training for managers and management teams across all of Hickory’s.
To drive the success of our manager training programme.
To support the management development training through on-the-job coaching and feedback.
To champion and grow the ‘Management In-Store Trainer’ programme and support them with further learning and development opportunities.
To continuously evaluate the impact and effectiveness of the MIT programme and ensure that it continues to support management development.
To provide ad-hoc operational support to restaurants where required.
The desire and drive to help others grow and develop.
To support the design and facilitation of all our Hickory’s programmes, ensuring each programme's cohort feels supported throughout their time on the programme and liaise with their line managers throughout.
To champion and support the growth of our Hickory’s apprenticeship offering.
To help create a coaching culture within Hickory’s with the regional training teams, managers and subject matter experts.
To support monthly succession plans, alongside the wider training team identifying and growing individuals within our management teams.
To identify learning gaps within Hickory’s and work with the management teams to build and deliver solutions.
Build and deliver workshops and training sessions that may be delivered face to face, online or through the Hickory’s Elearning platform.
Provide advice, guidance and support to help grow and develop our Hickory’s teams to achieve their full potential.
Monitor and evaluate the effectiveness and success of L&D and Training activities.
Provide support to the L&D manager and operational training teams.

How we will Thank You for being a Hickory’s Learning & Development Training Manager:

A package of up to £35,000 plus a car allowance contribution.
25% discount for you and 5 friends at all of our restaurants (including Barlounge & Upstairs at the Grill in Chester). This will increase to 50% discount for loyal service
Be a part of the No.1 business in the "Top 100 Best Companies to work for in the UK 2022"
Birthday reward - A meal on us for you and your friends every year
Superb training & progression opportunities with The Hickory’s Academy
Qualification opportunities whilst working (Up to A Level and Degree level equivalent)
FREE BBQ / Team food and authentic sodas while on shift
Christmas Day off work every year
Paid occasion days off (Wedding Day, Kid’s first day at school, Moving into your first house and more!)
The Red Zone – Our pledge to work life balance
Up to £500 refer a friend scheme
Chance to ‘give a bit back’ by joining our fundraising activities for Cash for Kids
Wellbeing Champions in each of our restaurants to support you
24-hour access to our wellness programme
Stacks of enrichment opportunities including the possibility of once-in-a-lifetime trips to the Deep South!

So, if all of that sounds amazing to you and you want to come and be a Hickory's Smokehouse Learning & Development Training Manager - apply now!

REF: INDSP L&D

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