ASDA
LS115AD
Full-time
16 days ago
Job Title Academy Lead - AI, Emerging Skills, Tech, Data & Online Location Asda House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanen…
Job Title Academy Lead - AI, Emerging Skills, Tech, Data & Online
Location Asda House
Employment Type Full time
Contract Type Permanent
Hours Per Week 37.5
Salary
Competitive salary plus benefits
Category Learning and Development
Closing Date 29 September 2026
The Academy Lead – AI, Emerging Skills, Tech, Data & Online owns the end-to-end learning and capability pathways for colleagues AI, technology, data, and online functions. The role is accountable for ensuring learning is simple, accessible, commercially relevant and directly linked to business performance and organisational priorities.
Working closely with People Partners, functional leaders, SMEs and external partners, the Academy Lead identifies critical capability requirements, prioritises learning investment and ensures the academy delivers the skills needed to support Asda's transformation agenda, digital growth and adoption of future technologies. The role is focused on enabling capability and adoption of emerging technologies.
Key Accountabilities
Own the Capability Strategy & Pathways
Define and maintain capability strategy and pathways for AI, data and technology adoption across Asda.
Define and deliver the learning pathways required to support the business to effectively land technology transformation.
Ensure learning pathways support business priorities, functional capability requirements and long-term strategic ambitions.
Partner with the Business
Build strong relationships with functional leaders, People Partners and subject matter experts.
Translate business priorities, transformation programmes and capability gaps into learning requirements.
Drive Capability Development
Ensure critical capabilities are identified, prioritised and supported through effective learning solutions.
Develop approaches that support AI adoption, digital fluency, data literacy and technology capability across the organisation.
Promote continuous learning and professional development.
Govern Learning Quality
Ensure learning interventions align to Asda learning standards and governance processes.
Determine the most appropriate delivery model using internal expertise, curation, SMEs and external suppliers.
Monitor learner experience and ensure solutions remain relevant and effective.
Measure Impact
Monitor capability development, learner engagement and business outcomes.
Use performance, skills and learning data to prioritise activity and demonstrate value.
Provide insight and recommendations to stakeholders on future capability investments.
Key Outputs & Deliverables
Clear Academy Pathways
A defined and accessible set of learning pathways that provide clarity on skills, development expectations and career growth opportunities across AI, Tech, Data and Online populations.
Prioritised Capability Plan
An annually reviewed and business-aligned capability roadmap that focuses investment on the skills and roles that will have the greatest impact on organisational performance.
Enabled SME Community
A network of capable SMEs who understand their responsibilities within the Academy Model and are equipped to maintain and support local learning solutions.
Skills & Capability Insights
Regular reporting and recommendations that inform workforce capability decisions, academy priorities and future investment.
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential
Experience leading learning, capability and adoption initiatives at scale.
Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills.
Experience translating business strategy into capability requirements.
Understanding of modern adult learning methodologies and capability frameworks.
Ability to work with data and insights to inform decision making.
Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering through matrix teams.
Desirable
Experience within AI, Technology, Data, Digital or Online functions.
Understanding of AI capability development and digital transformation.
Experience working within retail, technology or large-scale organisational change environments.
Knowledge of skills taxonomies and capability assessment approaches.
What Success Looks Like
Critical AI, Technology and Data capabilities have clear learning pathways.
Leaders have visibility of capability strengths, risks and priorities.
Learning investment is focused on the areas that most impact business performance.
AI adoption, digital capability and data literacy improve across target populations.
Learning is simple, relevant, measurable and clearly linked to business outcomes.
Everything you'll love
To ensure we balance moments where we know we need to collaborate together and the need for flexibility, Asda has a hybrid way of working with a minimum 3 days a week in one of our Home Offices. Over and above this, each area of Asda may have additional requirements which may require spending more days in the office, visiting suppliers, stores or depots.
Discretionary company bonus
Company pension up to 7% matched
Company Car allowance of £5,700
15% colleague discount in store and online
Free access to wellbeing services such as Stream, 24/7 virtual GP, counselling, health and dental cash plans and a 24/7 employee assistance helpline, alongside discounts across a range of services and activities, from airport parking, enhanced to theme parks and cinemas.
Asda Allies Inclusion Networks – helping colleagues to make sure everybody is included and that our differences are recognised and celebrated
Excellent parental leave policies, including maternity & adoption leave, paternity leave, shared parental leave, neonatal care leave, and support for those doing fertility treatments.
We want all colleagues to be able to bring their best and true selves to work, every day. Simply put, we want our colleagues to be Proud to be Asda and proud to be themselves
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£45,000 – £60,000 (Glassdoor, Levels.fyi, 2025)
Job Title Academy Lead - AI, Emerging Skills, Tech, Data & Online Location Asda House Employment Type Full time Contract Type Permanen…