Learning Designer

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’d all like amazing work to do, and real work–life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. We’re the first to say we do HR differently here. For a start, we work as business partners and specialists. Whether that’s making sure nearly 150,000 colleagues are paid on time, or shaping a strategy that helps us attract the right people, put them in the right place, and unlock their potential. This is a fast-moving business, and our policies and rewards evolve with it. That’s why we’re as flexible as we can be about where and when you work. We’re also flexible about your future. There’s always room to move up or across, if that’s what you want. We really value different perspectives, so there’s no one opinion, no single path, and yours matters.

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).