Who We Are

When we say, “the stuff dreams are made of,” we’re not just referring to the world of wizards, dragons and superheroes, or even to the wonders of Planet Earth. Behind WBD’s vast portfolio of iconic content and beloved brands, are the storytellers bringing our characters to life, the creators bringing them to your living rooms and the dreamers creating what’s next…

From brilliant creatives, to technology trailblazers, across the globe, WBD offers career defining opportunities, thoughtfully curated benefits, and the tools to explore and grow into your best selves. Here you are supported, here you are celebrated, here you can thrive.

Your New Role

The Warner Bros Discovery Learning and Development Team is a global team within the People and Culture group, which helps the organisation drive a highly engaged and high-performing culture through supporting all employees with their development.

Our strategy involves building a growth mindset across the organisation, and inspiring and enabling world class leaders and managers who, in turn, lead highly engaged and high-performing teams.

This role will support across the L&D team but will sit and primarily support the Leadership Development team- a team within the larger L&D team. This team looks after the director+ population, supporting leaders through programs, coaches, learning experts and resources.

Your Role Accountabilities

Leadership Development: Supporting the team with activities around providing leaders with; learning resources, speaker sessions, bite-sized videos, webinars and virtual workshops across a range of topics
Session producing: Providing set up and technical help within virtual live sessions
Project work: supporting various projects that span the scope of the wider team
Design & Communication: Support on the design and communications of learning content
Evaluations: Collect, analyse and present evaluation data to the team.
Research: Evaluate and research current trends and innovations within the learning and development space
Administrative Support: Support with coordination, administration and reporting when launching programs, training content, surveys, initiatives, etc. Supporting monitoring for/responding to Learning inbox inquiries, Learning platform user monitoring/maintenance, administering assessments for learning courses and teams.
Ad-hoc requests: Including, but not limited to, liaising with different P&C groups.

Qualifications & Experience

You must be a current University student in your 2nd year of study, looking to spend your 3rd year on placement and graduating no earlier than July 2024.
Strong interest in human resources and people development.
Strong attention to detail and organisation.
Ability to handle multiple tasks and prioritise in a professional and timely manner.
Consistency with processes and daily tasks.
Self-starter and proactive approach in resolving problems and issues.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Ability to read, analyse and interpret general information and data.
Ability to interact with all levels of personnel. Treat all with dignity and respect. Open and receptive to their needs.
Troubleshooting & Efficiency skills – look for better ways of doing things and removing roadblocks.
Ability to effectively present information in a clear manner, demonstrate procedures and respond to questions.
Computer skills; ideally strong skills in Excel, Word and PowerPoint.
Ability to meet multiple simultaneous deadlines.
Confidence in public speaking/presentation skills.

The Internship

Salary: £22,000
Contract Length: 12 months
Start Date: Likely to be 26th June 2023
You will gain hands-on experience working on business-critical projects.
You will have access to personal and professional development courses, executive speakers’ series, special screenings and more.
You will be part of our Early Talent network of over 100 interns & apprentices, meaning you will have an important support network of other students, graduates and apprentices and plenty of opportunities to socialise!

Please submit your CV (no cover letter required) if you'd like to apply by Sunday 12th March 2023. Within 5 days of submitting your application, you will be invited to complete an application questionnaire via HireVue - you must complete this to be considered for the role. The deadline to submit your HireVue questionnaire is Sunday 19th March 2023.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done.

You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

The Legal Bits

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of our society and the world around us.

Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you need a reasonable accommodation in order to apply for this position, please contact us at recruitadmin@warnermedia.com.

Learning & Development Placement London 2023