Learning & Development Manager

About atis:
We’re a fast-growing food brand with big ambitions and bold ideas. Our mission is to bring nourishing food to people in a way that feels fresh, modern and full of energy. We don’t do beige. We do colour, creativity, culture – and we’re building a brand that reflects that.

Above all, quality comes first at atis – quality of food, quality of customer experience, and quality of the employee experience. We care deeply about delivering on this across everything we do.

Culturally, we value people who are fun, friendly, kind, smart and engaged. We take our work seriously, but don’t take ourselves too seriously — and we’re building a team where people love what they do.

About the role:
We are looking for an experienced L&D Manager to help shape and scale the internal development infrastructure for a rapidly growing company of approximately 300 employees. As the first core L&D role within atis, this is an exciting opportunity to establish the foundational principles of truly excellent L&D, through embedding systems and processes, creating dynamic and forward-thinking content, and supporting the long- term development of talent across multiple sites.

Focus :

• Develop and implement a fresh and innovative employee onboarding experience
• Design and implement clear developmental pathways for every role
• Create engaging and fun training workshops for every role
• Deliver in-person Leadership training workshops
• Design and deliver our digital learning strategy, via a new LMS (Learning Management System).
• Balance delivery of training (50%) with strategic/creative input (50%)
• Nurture site managers to support with the delivery of excellent training and development standards

Typical work might include:

• The strategy, creative development and implementation of foundational L&D principles; the onboarding experience, development pathways, training workshops, LMS.
• Identifying and collaborating with charismatic site employees to create playful e-learning content
• Delivering weekly company onboarding sessions for new joiners
• Training validation checks for senior management
• Creating thoughtful feedback loops to assess success of initiatives
• Delivering in person workshops on Leadership
• Coach, guide and mentor the site training team to deliver learning content that resonates
• Oversee training for new site openings
• Auditing statutory training requirements to ensure compliance

You might not have first-hand experience implementing every single one of these areas. What’s important is that you have a strong understanding of several, the knowledge of which you can leverage to grow into the rest.

Skills/Experience:

• 5+ years’ experience within an L&D team
• Creation of training content; both in-person and digital
• Delivery of training workshops
• Creation and implementation of internal development pathways
• Management of an LMS, ideally with experience of implementation

Mindset:
You’re a builder and a doer. You care about getting things done and doing them well. You are hands-on and proactive, you sweat the details, and you thrive on making things work better — for the business, for our people and for our customers.

You care about the quality of the food, the experience our customers receive, and the experience our teams have every day. You’re motivated by making things excellent. You love good food and great brands, and you want to be part of building one that’s going to last.

You are kind, smart, positive and engaged — and you enjoy working with like-minded people. You take your work seriously, but you don’t take yourself too seriously.

Why atis:

• We’re building a bold, flavour-first brand that is shaking things up in the food space
• You’ll have the opportunity to help shape the future of our operations
• Work with an ambitious, growing team that cares deeply about food, people and quality
• We move quickly, trust generously and love big ideas
• Lots of real, bold food to fuel your days

What we offer you:

• £50k–60k salary, experience dependent
• Standard hours: 9am–6pm Monday–Friday (1 day WFH per week)
• Prime central London office location
• Free atis for lunch or dinner
• Dog-friendly office
• Weekly travel card Zones 1–2
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Access to lifestyle discounts platform
• Annual salary reviews
• Pension scheme (3% employer contribution + 5% employee contribution)
• 25 paid holiday days + 8 days bank holidays
• Paid day of community/charity work – 1 day per year
• Sabbatical – 4 weeks after 3 years of service
• Work From Away – 1 week after 1 year of service
• Frequent social events, head office and company-wide
• atis Discounts for friends and family
• Free atis merchandise (cap; tee; sweatshirt)
• High-performing, focused, caring office working environment with promise for growth professionally and personally
• Investment in professional training and development