Uniphar - Who we are

With a workforce of more than 3000 employees spread across Ireland, United Kingdom, Mainland Europe, MENA, and the USA, Uniphar is a trusted global partner to pharma and MedTech manufacturers, working to improve patient access to medicines around the world. Uniphar provides outsourced and specialised services to its clients, leveraging the strong relationships with 200+ of the world's best known pharmaco-medical manufacturers across multiple geographies, enabled by our cutting-edge digital technology and our highly expert teams. Uniphar is organised into three key divisions: Supply Chain Retail & On Demand, Uniphar Med Tech and Uniphar Pharma.

Supply Chain & Retail

Supply Chain Services provides both pre-wholesale and wholesale distribution of pharmaceutical, healthcare and animal health products to pharmacies and hospital nationwide. The business supports a diverse customer base through the provision of strong service levels coupled with innovative commercial initiatives. In addition, the business provides services and supports that help independent community pharmacy to compete more effectively in an increasingly difficult environment and runs a network of Uniphar-owned pharmacies under the Life, Allcare, McCauleys and Hickeys symbol brands.

Pharma - On Demand

The On-Demand business is a specialist medical supply business that sources and distributes pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and consumable supplies to healthcare professionals in over 160 countries worldwide. We have offices in Ireland, UK, Europe, USA and New Zealand. The company's main divisions encompass everything from International Sales through Sales to NGO's and Charities, Clinical Trials Supply, Imported (Unlicensed Medicines), Sexual Health Supplies, and the storage and distribution of medical products and devices for third parties.

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Culture at Uniphar

Uniphar is a combination of many businesses each with its own identity, culture, values, and ways of working. Our overarching culture narrative is inclusive of each of these stores. Uniphar lives and breathes four key pillars which unpin and support our culture.

We have a people first approach - we do the right thing. We support entrepreneurial spirit where adaptability, commitment & resilience is embodied in our way of working. We have a Common Purpose that connects our diversified businesses and people. Finally, Trust is at the heart of how we operate.

Everything Uniphar does is enabled by our people and as we continue to grow domestically and internationally, we become more diverse. This diversity fuels our business and culture.

Sustainability

Sustainability is at the core of what we do and is deeply embedded in our business strategy. We want to contribute positively to the people and the world around us. Running our business in a sustainable way ensures that Uniphar will continue to prosper in the long-term. We are focused on ensuring that each of the five pillars of our sustainability strategy are a fundamental part of our decision-making process.

The role

Reporting to the Learning and Development Manager, the Learning and Development Coordinator is a pivotal role within the Supply Chain, Retail and On Demand HR Team. You will play a key role in assisting in all learning and talent development offerings across Uniphar. You will support with our onboarding, graduate and in house programs and external learning vendors which will evolve our learning culture. You will collaborate across the HR team to make learning and talent initiatives happen. Additionally, you will support with digital learning and data collection.

As a vital member of the Supply Chain, Retail and On Demand HR team, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to group-wide strategic HR projects, aligning with the vision and strategy to support Uniphar's growing 3000+ workforce.

Key Outcomes

• Consistent delivery of central L&D administrative activities.
• Operate as the initial point of contact for L&D maintaining excellent communications with key stakeholders and escalating any complicated request to the Manager and/or Specialists.
• Support team colleagues with specialised projects and learning design when appropriate.
• Ensure the learning environment and resources support learner needs.
• Prepare the learning environment and resources, including setting up IT equipment where appropriate to support session structure.
• Support in co-delivery of learning in both formal (e.g. tutor led) and informal settings, supporting and coaching learners to develop their skills.
• Support with evaluating the effectiveness of learning interventions through defined KPI's for learning programmes.
• Maintain appropriate records of learner development and resource allocation on our learning management system.
• Support the maintenance of our Learning Management Systems (LMS) and other Learning & Performance tools.

Key Skills & Experiences

• Experience using/working with multiple learning technologies, including e-learning, blended programs, virtual classrooms (Microsoft Teams) and social learning.
• Confident communicator with the ability to build and maintain relationships with multiple stakeholders at all levels.
• Intuitive and able to relate to others and build rapport.
• Highly organised, capable of operating within multiple reporting lines and manage multiple priorities successfully.
• Support the Learning & Development Team with day-to-day administrative duties.
• Actively contribute as part of a team and work towards achieving team goals and outcomes.

How we'd like to work together

Due to the expected key outcomes associated with this role by its nature it will be a role based out of one of our offices across the UK or Ireland. There will be an element of hybrid working available, but this role will also involve travel to our global sites. It is important to note that we do not expect this job to be a '9 to 5' type position. In return for your flexibility, you will be joining an environment that understands how inter-twined work and life have become - and both the benefits and challenges that brings - and therefore offers a flexible, progressive way of supporting it.

If you believe that you meet most of the criteria above, we encourage you to apply. We are an equal opportunities employer and will ensure any reasonable accommodations are implemented as part of the recruitment and selection process.