**Job Description :** **Job Title:** Learning Programme Specialist **Level:** 5 **Reports to:** Learning & Inclusion Business Partner/ Learning Performance Lead **About us:** With over 200 brands sold in nearly 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Bring your passion and use your curiosity as you explore, collaborate, and innovate to build brands consumers love. Together with passionate people from all over the world, you’ll test new ideas, learn and grow, and unlock a brighter, more exciting future. **Context/Scope:** Diageo is the world’s leading premium drinks company with an outstanding diverse collection of brands, such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness. Our purpose – Celebrating life, every day, everywhere – has an important role in our company, for our people, our diversity, our brands, in how we perform and how we create shared value. Diageo’s Ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products company in the world. We will achieve this with engaged people: high performing teams; continuous learning; and a most inclusive culture. The Global Learning & Inclusion team is focused on accelerating capability building for our diverse workforce, by adopting precision learning and dynamic skills approaches - through engaging, immersive, and inspirational learning experiences. The role forms part of Global Learning & Inclusion, one of Global HR’s centres of excellence, alongside a team compromising of Learning Performance Leads, Programme Specialists, Design Specialists, Analytics & Learning Operations.These teams collaborate efficiently in supporting & equipping business to build the knowledge, skills, mindset, and confidence to deliver on core and emerging priorities, to enable the shifts needed to accelerate delivery of our Growth Ambition and goals **About the role:** The Learning Programme Specialist plays a crucial role in designing, developing, and delivering innovative learning solutions linked to our biggest strategic priorities. It is designed to be agile in nature and delivery. **Dimensions:** a) **Financial:** Manage of spend against approved budget limits – by project. b) **Complexities:** This role collaborates with both internal stakeholders and external partners to enable our learning programmes and solutions address the diverse capability needs of our global workforce and drive measurable performance improvements. c) **Leadership Responsibilities and Decision- Making Rights:** Adaptable and flexible to meet changing business priorities, supporting strategic priorities where additional expertise, capacity and brilliant execution is needed at a point in time. Learning Programme Specialists will work across different strategic projects, gaining depth of experience across specific disciplines. Depending on the size of the project, this may mean working 1-2 or multiple projects across the year. **Accountabilities:** **Needs Analysis and Learning Outcome Definition:** Proactively supports LPLs (Learning Performance Leads), business stakeholders, and SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to: + Understand learning needs and performance gaps across various audiences (functional, technical, leadership, professional) on specific and assigned priorities. + Define clear and measurable learning outcomes aligned with business priorities, aligned to our growth ambition, and learner needs. + Brings external curiosity, best in class approaches and insights to help define key priorities and programmes **Learning Solution Design and Development:** + Supports the coordination and development of innovative and best-in-class learning interventions and programmes, end-to-end, methodologies, and designs (e.g., V/ILT, e-learning, blended learning, assessments) based on identified needs - business and learners' + Develop robust project plans, including timelines, resource allocation, budget management, and vendor selection (if applicable). + Collaborate with Learning Design Specialists, and where appropriate, vendors, to create engaging and effective learning content and materials. **Project Management and Implementation:** + As needed, leads cross-functional project teams, including SMEs, Learning Design Specialists, Analytics Specialists, Learning Operations team members, and vendors - to ensure timely and successful project implementation, within budget and defined standards. + Supports LPLs with stakeholder engagement throughout the project lifecycle. **Communication and Engagement:** + Responsible for developing & deploying communication and engagement plans that support the success of our strategic learning programme(s). + Perform the writing, editing, design and delivery of communications materials - to be customised in partnership with appropriate SMEs (HR, CR, business), that are suitable for omnichannel delivery e.g. Viva Engage, Teams, Zoom, email, newsletters etc. + Collaborate cross-functionally (GFHR, markets, functions) on priority project(s) to improve awareness, understanding, participation, and overall engagement with the programme(s). **Evaluation and Continuous Improvement:** + In partnership with Learning Analytics Specialists, define evaluation metrics to measure the effectiveness and impact of learning programmes. + For more complex data and analytics requirements works with Learning Analytics Specialist (data from multiple sources, predictive analytics etc) + Using insights, measures engagement of learning programmes and looks for opportunities to enhance and continuously improve. + Stay abreast of emerging external learning technologies, methodologies, and best practices to continuously innovate and enhance learning solutions. **Qualifications and Experience Required:** + Preferred experience of designing and implementing successful learning pathways and programmes + End to end project management experience, with exceptional stakeholder management skills. + Experience of working with data from multiple sources and insight to provide recommendations + Working knowledge of change management principles and practices, together with experience of proactively navigating change in the workplace. **Flexible Working Statement:** Flexibility is key to our success. Talk to us about what flexibility means to you so that you’re supported to manage your wellbeing and balance your priorities from day one. **Rewards & Benefits Statement: (TE)** **Diversity statement:** Our purpose is to celebrate life, every day, everywhere. And creating an inclusive culture, where everyone feels valued and that they can belong, is a crucial part of this. We embrace diversity in the broadest possible sense. This means that you’ll be welcomed and celebrated for who you are just by being you. You’ll be part of and help build and champion an inclusive culture that celebrates people of different gender, ethnicity, ability, age, sexual orientation, social class, educational backgrounds, experiences, mindsets, and more. Our ambition is to create the best performing, most trusted and respected consumer products companies in the world. Join us and help transform our business as we take our brands to the next level and build new ones as part of shaping the next generation of celebrations for consumers around the world. Feel inspired? Then this may be the opportunity for you. **Worker Type :** Regular **Primary Location:** Bangalore Karle Town SEZ **Additional Locations :** **Job Posting Start Date :** 2025-09-03 With over 200 brands sold in more than 180 countries, we’re the world’s leading premium drinks company. Every day, over 30,000 talented people come together at Diageo to create the magic behind our much-loved brands. From iconic names to innovative newcomers – the brands we’re building are rooted in culture and local communities. Our ambition is to be one of the best performing, most trusted and most respected consumer products companies in the world. Our founders, such as Arthur Guinness, John Walker, and Charles Tanqueray, were visionary entrepreneurs whose brilliant minds helped shape the alcohol industry. And through our people, their legacy lives on. Join us, and you’ll collaborate with talented people from all corners of the world. Together, you’ll innovate and push boundaries, shaping a more inclusive and sustainable future that we can all be proud of. With diversity at our core, we celebrate our people's unique passions, commitments and specialist skills. Because when varied voices, mindsets, and personalities come together, great ideas are born. In our supportive culture, your voice will be heard and you’ll be empowered to be you. Just bring your ambition, curiosity and ideas, and we’ll celebrate your work and help you reach your fullest potential. **DRINKiQ** What's your DRINKiQ? Take our quiz to understand how alcohol is made and explore the effects of drinking. You can discover everything you need to know at DRINKiQ (https://www.drinkiq.com/en-gb/)