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Technical Learning Design Manager

Ideas | People | Trust

We’re BDO. An accountancy and business advisory firm, providing the advice and solutions entrepreneurial organisations need to navigate today’s changing world.

We work with the companies that are Britain’s economic engine – ambitious, entrepreneurially-spirited and high‑growth businesses that fuel the economy - and directly advise the owners and management teams that lead them.

We’ll broaden your horizons

Our greatest asset is our people, so our HR team focus on ensuring we are all reaching our potential. They use their specialist expertise to help us attract great talent, enable our employees to succeed and inspire a unified culture of development across our firm.

By playing a role in the recruitment and management of our people, they help change lives and influence the future of BDO. Join a driven and passionate team where you can be yourself, while also helping your colleagues to achieve their ambitions.

We’ll help you succeed

Leading organisations trust us because of the quality of our advice. That quality grows from a thorough understanding of their business, and that understanding comes from working closely with them and building long-lasting relationships.

You’ll be someone who is both comfortable working proactively and managing your own tasks, as well as confident collaborating with others and communicating regularly with senior managers, directors, and BDO’s partners to help businesses effectively. You’ll be encouraged to identify and draw attention to opportunities for enhancing our delivery and providing additional services to organisations we work with.

You will;

  • Conduct needs assessments and learner analysis to ensure learning solutions are strategically aligned with business goals.
  • Apply instructional design best practices to create engaging, accessible, and inclusive learning experiences across a range of modalities.
  • Design learning solutions for complex, technical, and regulatory topics, often requiring the translation of technical information into accessible learning experiences.
  • Collaborate with IT, Stakeholders and SMEs, and as needed, external suppliers, to translate business needs into engaging, practical learning experiences that reflect adult learning best practices.
  • Lead and manage projects to implement new compliance learning initiatives, ensuring alignment with business goals and learner needs.
  • Develop and maintain dashboards and reports to track compliance learning completion, effectiveness, and risk areas.
  • Analyse data to identify trends, gaps, and opportunities for improvement, presenting insights to senior stakeholders and recommending actions.

You’ll be someone with:

  • Professional services experience, an understanding of compliance and regulation, and a passion for learning.
  • Deep expertise in instructional design and learning experience design (LXD), with practical experience applying adult learning principles and UX methodologies.
  • Experience designing and developing technical or compliance-related learning solutions end-to-end, including needs analysis, solution design, development, implementation, and evaluation.
  • Familiarity with rapid authoring tools (e.g., Articulate Storyline, Rise, Vyond) and with emerging learning technologies.
  • Strong project management and risk management skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder and relationship management abilities, including working with SMEs, internal teams, and external suppliers.
  • Creative and innovative mindset, able to design and deliver engaging learning solutions.
  • The ability to influence and persuade others at all levels.
  • A passion for continuous improvement and supporting effective change.

You’ll be able to be yourself; we’ll recognise and value you for who you are and celebrate and reward your contributions to the business. We’re committed to agile working, and we offer every colleague the opportunity to work in ways that suit you, your teams, and the task at hand.

At BDO, we’ll help you achieve your personal goals and career ambitions, and we have programmes, resources, and frameworks that provide clarity and structure around career development.

We’re in it together

Mutual support and respect is one of BDO’s core values and we’re proud of our distinctive, people-centred culture. From informal success conversations to formal mentoring and coaching, we’ll support you at every stage in your career, whatever your personal and professional needs.

Our agile working framework helps us stay connected, bringing teams together where and when it counts so they can share ideas and help one another. At BDO, you’ll always have access to the people and resources you need to do your best work.

We know that collaboration is the key to creating value for the companies we work with and satisfying experiences for our colleagues, so we’ve invested in state-of-the-art collaboration spaces in our offices. BDO’s people represent a wealth of knowledge and expertise, and we’ll encourage you to build your network, work alongside others, and share your skills and experiences. With a range of multidisciplinary events and dedicated resources, you’ll never stop learning at BDO.

We’re looking forward to the future

At BDO, we help entrepreneurial businesses to succeed, fuelling the UK economy.

Our success is powered by our people, which is why we’re always finding new ways to invest in you. Across the UK thousands of unique minds continue to come together to help companies we work with to achieve their ambitions

We’ve got a clear purpose, and we’re confident in our future, because we’re adapting and evolving to build on our strengths, ensuring we continue to find the right combination of global reach, integrity and expertise. We shape the future together with openness and clarity, because we believe in empowering people to think creatively about how we can do things better.

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