Career and Learning Manager

Job Summary

The Career and Learning Manager is responsible for designing, implementing, and sustaining a robust career management and learning ecosystem within SBC. The role drives end-to-end management of structured talent pathways including the Graduate Trainee Programme and owns the implementation of SBC’s learning strategy, the learning & development framework and the career management framework.

Job Details

• Coordinate and manage the Graduate Trainee Program spanning, onboarding, rotational placement, assessment, and confirmation.
• Design and continuously refine structured career paths for Graduate Trainees, covering milestones, competency progression, and timelines for confirmation and advancement.
• Partner with function heads to ensure meaningful rotational placements and relevant learning assignments for trainees.
• Track and report on the development progress of all trainees and escalate performance concerns, facilitating mid-programme interventions as needed.
• Manage the end-of-program assessment and conversion process, providing clear recommendations on confirmation, extension, or exit.
• Define and maintain career paths for identified talents, successors, and critical role holders across the organization.
• Champion employee mobility initiatives-lateral moves, cross-functional transfers, and role changes-and ensure structured and transparent processes that support individual growth and organizational agility.
• Facilitate and drive promotional conversations by equipping managers and employees with the data needed to make evidence-based progression decisions.
• Support talent actions arising from Talent Reviews, including development plans, stretch assignments, and accelerated progression programs for high-potential employees.
• Provide direct guidance to employees seeking to understand their career progression options, potential trajectories, and development requirements within SBC.
• Drive the implementation of SBC's learning strategy and learning and development framework across the organization, ensuring alignment with business priorities and talent objectives.
• Drive the Technical Academy, Sales Academy, and Leadership Development Programme, ensuring programme design, content, and outcomes are aligned with organisational capability requirements.
• Coordinate with the Manufacturing Capability Manager and technical learning partners to drive technical training, simulations, and capability-building initiatives, including through SBC's technical bay.
• Oversee the implementation of SBC's e-learning strategy and LMS platform, ensuring effective deployment, learner engagement, and return on learning investment.
• Manage the training budget and work with HRBPs and Capability Managers across the business to collate training needs, prioritize learning investments, and drive the implementation of learning-related succession development actions for identified successors.
• Ensure career pathing is supported by targeted learning interventions.
• Support the design and delivery of internal talent development programs, including mentoring schemes, job shadowing arrangements, and internal mobility campaigns.
• Leverage workforce analytics to identify career progression bottlenecks, attrition risks, training effectiveness trends, and internal mobility patterns, translating insights into actionable recommendations for leadership.
• Benchmark SBC’s career management and learning practices against FMCG industry standards and leading practices, recommending improvements to remain competitive in talent retention and capability building.

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Human Resources, Psychology, Business Administration, or a related discipline
• 6–8 years of progressive HR experience, with a clear focus on talent management, learning and development, career development, or organizational development
• Prior experience in an FMCG, manufacturing, or high-volume workforce environment
• Experience driving technical or sales academy program
• Familiarity with HRIS platforms and talent/learning management systems (e.g., SeamlessHR, SAP HCM)
• Certification in Learning and Development, Training, or Instructional Design
• Demonstrated experience managing structured graduate trainee or early careers programs
• Hands-on experience with career pathing, competency framework design or administration, and learning program management
• Experience in designing and delivering training program, including e-learning and LMS-based deployment
• Experience managing training budgets and working with external learning partners
• Membership of CIPM, or equivalent professional body
• Possession of HR Practitioner License (as applicable)

About Company

Seven-Up Bottling Company Limited

https://sevenup.seamlesshiring.com

Just like Nigeria, the entity SevenUp Bottling Company was conceived in 1959 by a great visionary named Mohammed El-Khalil and began operations as a soft drink bottling company. As a company, we have since achieved great success in the soft drink and bottling industries since beginning operations on October 1st of, 1960. As one of the longest-standing businesses in Nigeria, we have proudly contributed to job creation and partnered with many Nigerian suppliers and establishments. We also currently have nine plants across the country. SBC has a wide offering of sugar-sweetened and sugar-free non-alcoholic beverages. We can also boast of having Nigerian favourites like Pepsi, Seven-Up, Mirinda, Mountain Dew, and Teem in several variants and line extensions in our portfolio. Our history also contains iconic marketing campaigns such as ‘Fido Dido,’ ‘The Three Orange Men,’ and ‘The Pepsi Long Throat’ campaign. We are fueled by the need to ‘refresh and inspire a youthful lifestyle’ and our mission is guided by principles like hard work, determination, integrity, honesty, sustainability, fun, and refreshment. That’s why our brands champion and complement the music scene, sports, and the all-around ‘good life.’