Learning Designer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Argos
Closing date: 27 March 2026
Requisition ID: 400053000
Location
Hybrid working - base location either Manchester, Coventry or London
Why join us
Joining Argos as a Learning Designer means becoming a crucial part of a forward-thinking team dedicated to revolutionising learning and development experiences. In this role, you will have the opportunity to design and produce cutting-edge blended learning solutions that promote continuous performance support and ongoing learning. By working collaboratively with stakeholders and leveraging your creativity and instructional design expertise, you will play a key role in developing impactful learning content that enhances the skills and knowledge of our colleagues. At Sainsbury's, we value innovation, inclusivity, and continuous improvement, offering a supportive environment where you can make a real difference and contribute to creating exceptional learning experiences for our workforce.
What you'll do
As a Learning Designer at Argos, you will be responsible for designing and producing exceptional blended learning solutions that promote continuous performance support and ongoing learning through a 70 / 20 / 10 approach. You will collaborate with learning architects and stakeholders to translate learning architecture into design, applying instructional design methodologies and creative learning techniques to develop pedagogically sound content for digital and face-to-face learning solutions. By leveraging tools like Articulate Rise, Elucidat, Evolve, and Storyline, you will create inclusive and accessible learning experiences, working both independently and as part of a team to deliver high-quality assets such as e-learning modules, PDFs, presentations, assessments, and interactive activities to enhance the learner experience. Through user-centric design principles, stakeholder engagement, and continuous feedback loops, you will play a vital role in shaping and delivering innovative learning experiences for colleagues across the organisation.
Who you are
As a Learning Designer at Argos, you are a creative and experienced Learning & Development professional dedicated to designing and delivering innovative blended learning solutions that enhance continuous performance support and ongoing learning experiences. With a strong foundation in instructional design methodologies and a focus on user-centred design principles, you excel in creating engaging and effective digital and face-to-face learning content. Your ability to collaborate with stakeholders, conduct user research, and leverage diverse tools and technologies demonstrates your commitment to designing inclusive and accessible learning experiences that drive positive outcomes for learners and the organisation.
Essential Criteria
- Demonstrable experience designing and developing blended learning solutions, including digital, face‑to‑face, and virtual formats, covering tasks such as user research, storyboarding, content creation, and testing.
- Proven ability to apply human‑centred design practices, including conducting user research, leading ideation sessions, gathering feedback, and validating learning needs through prototypes or testing sessions.
- Demonstrated capability to create digital learning content using tools such as Articulate Storyline, Rise, Elucidat, or Evolve, with an understanding of SCORM/xAPI requirements.
- Evidence of designing accessible and inclusive learning solutions, ensuring compliance with accessibility standards across all learning formats.
- Ability to manage end‑to‑end design processes, including version control, storage, stakeholder communication, and delivering assets within agreed timescales.
" We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them:Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform.Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme.Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave.Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply)."
