Management Development Specialist

Join our journey to create a new experience for The National Lottery and help us to power change for the greater good.
We are Allwyn UK, part of the Allwyn Entertainment Group – a multi-national lottery operator with a market-leading presence across Europe which includes: Czech Republic, Austria, Greece, Cyprus & Italy.

While the main contribution of The National Lottery to society is through the funds to good causes, at Allwyn we put our purpose and values at the heart of everything we do. Join us as we embark on a once-in-a-lifetime, largescale transformation journey by creating a National Lottery that delivers more money to good causes.

A bit about the role

In a nutshell, we want this role to create an environment where our managers are empowered to own their team’s development and ensure our colleagues own their development.

What you’ll be doing

• Design and deliver management development initiatives to nurture our current and future leaders.
• In partnership with key stakeholders, define and create an (light touch) Allwyn core management framework, which factors in emotional intelligence, best practice and expected behaviors.
• Create and maintain a self-serve learning resource hub (toolkits, guides, playbooks etc).
• Partner with Internal communications and People BPs to promote self-directed learning within our managers community network on teams.
• Ensure language, tone and consistency across all manager content via other channels that is delivered by the LX team.
• Facilitate workshops, peer learning groups and coaching session to develop key management skills.
• In partnership with the Learning Experience Specialist, support the ongoing development of coaching and mentoring schemes.
• Conduct regular review of programme and work in an agile way to tweak initiatives for effectiveness.
• Support TA team in building assessment frameworks to recruit future managers (internally and externally).
• Ensure training is accessible, inclusive, and aligned with business needs.
• Provide one-to-one coaching sessions for key individuals to enhance performance.
• Equip managers with coaching skills to support their teams effectively.

What experience we’re looking for

• Proven experience in building management capability in a fast-paced commercial organisation.
• Strong knowledge of management and leadership development principles and what good looks like.
• Solutions focused mindset and the ability to translate insight into actionable programmes of work.
• Experience of designing and implementing scalable learning solutions.
• Previous experience in developing management development programmes.
• Skilled in facilitation and coaching.
• Ability to create and manage self-serve learning resources (both creation and curation).
• Strong stakeholder management and communications skills.
• Growth mindset: solutions focused mindset where anything is possible and fostering a continuous learning environment.
• Experience of Microsoft work tools, including Sharepoint development, Viva Learning and how learning can be maintained.
• Experience in digital learning tools.

• 26 days paid leave (plus bank holidays) 
• Annual bonus scheme 
• 2 x Life Days 
• 4 x Salary of Life Insurance 
• Pension: we’ll match your contribution up to 8.5% 
• Single Private Health Cover 
• £500 Wellness Allowance 
• Income Protection 
• Enhanced parental leave (maternity and paternity) 
• Eye Care, Dental and Cycle To Work schemes