Learning & Development Coach

Are you passionate about developing leaders, inspiring learning, and supporting professional growth?

If you're an engaging facilitator, experienced coach, and confident working with managers and senior leaders, this could be the ideal next step in your career.

As a Learning & Development Coach, you'll be a key part of our Training & Apprenticeship Team, supporting learners across a range of leadership programmes. You’ll deliver both face-to-face and online learning, provide individual coaching, and help apprentices achieve their qualifications on time and to a high standard — all while contributing to our future leadership pipeline.

Key Responsibilities:

• Coach and support apprentices across our leadership programmes to ensure timely and successful completion.

• Deliver high-quality training sessions (online and in-person) that engage, challenge and support learner development.

• Provide constructive, real-time feedback and coaching in live environments with managers and senior leaders.

• Set clear objectives and targets with learners, keeping detailed records in line with quality and compliance standards.

• Collaborate with the design team to share feedback and support ongoing improvement of content and delivery.

• Support a wide range of subject areas, including leadership, cultural change, sales, negotiation, and personal development.

• Participate in standardisation and best-practice meetings, staying up to date with industry requirements and CPD.

This is a dynamic and people-focused role requiring energy, adaptability, and the confidence to challenge and support learners across all levels of the business.

The successful candidate will likely be out delivering workshops nationally, which may include overnight stays, or conducting branch visits and manager meetings around 4-6 days a month.

Candidate applying must hold a valid driving licence.

You’ll also have:

• Preferred but not essential a recognised coaching or training qualification (A1 Assessor, PTTLS or Adult Supporter).

• Experience coaching in live environments, ideally with managers and senior stakeholders.

• Strong facilitation skills and the ability to lead engaging workshops.

• Excellent communication and feedback skills, with the confidence to challenge constructively.

• Setting, developing and achieving targets.

• Experience of working in a fast-paced, complex environment.

• Preferred experience and knowledge of safeguarding, PREVENT, equality & diversity.

• Occupational experience in the area of apprenticeship delivery. E.g. Management, retail/merchanting.

• Flexibility to travel nationally to different sites as required (must hold a valid driving licence)

What’s in it for you?

You’ll be supported by some of the best training and development in the industry. Our impressive internal succession programme means, whatever it is you do with us,  it will be easy for you to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Business performance related bonus

• Contributory pension scheme

• Colleague discount and a platform of discounts and offers with over 1,000 retailers

• Private medical insurance 

• Life insurance

• A range of other voluntary and company funded benefits including; Employee Assistance Programme, a financial wellbeing app and legal and mortgage advice.

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

A bit about us:

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 19,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. 

Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way! 

You be you, it makes us, us!