Learning Designer
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: London Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1M 6HA
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Group HR
Closing date: 01 June 2026
Requisition ID: 400058047
Why join us
Joining Sainsbury's as a Learning Designer for face-to-face (F2F) learning offers an exciting opportunity for creative L&D professionals who are passionate about designing high-quality learning experiences. In this role, you will have the chance to collaborate with stakeholders, apply human-centered design principles, and create engaging learning solutions that make a real impact. With a focus on inclusivity, accessibility, and continuous improvement, you will play a key role in shaping the future of learning at Sainsbury's while working in a supportive and innovative environment that values creativity and collaboration.
What you'll do
As a Learning Designer at Sainsbury's, you will be at the forefront of designing and developing engaging face-to-face learning experiences as part of a blended learning approach. Working closely with learning architects and business stakeholders, you will lead the end-to-end design of learning solutions, incorporating workshops, facilitated sessions, and practice-based learning. Your role will involve utilising human-centered design principles, conducting colleague listening sessions, and collaborating with stakeholders to ideate and produce prototypes that validate the learning architecture. By applying instructional design knowledge across face-to-face and digital learning solutions, you will create inclusive and practical learning materials and activities, ultimately delivering high-quality learner experiences while adhering to project timelines and design processes.
Who you are
As a Learning Designer specialising in face-to-face learning at Sainsbury's, you are a creative and detail-oriented professional with a passion for creating engaging and practical learning experiences. With a strong understanding of instructional design principles, facilitation techniques, and human-centered design practises, you excel in designing high-impact learning materials for in-person and blended delivery. Your ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders and colleagues, coupled with your commitment to inclusivity and accessibility in design, ensures the delivery of superior learning experiences that drive real-world impact and enhance organisational performance.
Essential Criteria
- Proven experience designing and developing face‑to‑face learning solutions.
- Demonstrable ability to design learning materials for both face‑to‑face and blended delivery.
- Practical experience applying human‑centred design methods, including user research, ideation and iterative feedback.
- Proficiency using digital learning tools and formats that support face‑to‑face learning (e.g., presentations, PDFs, e‑learning, virtual delivery).
- Demonstrable ability to design learning that meets accessibility and inclusive design standards.
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).
