As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!

Meijer Rewards

• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth

Please review the job profile below and apply today!

The Instructional Designer is responsible for developing engaging and impactful learning experiences and materials that meet the needs of team members and leaders across retail, supply chain, and corporate environments. This role involves using analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation to create solutions tailored to these audiences.

Supporting company-wide training initiatives, the Instructional Designer focuses on functional/technical training through various formats, including instructor-led courses, web-based learning, mobile learning, and job guides or aids.

Operating within a SAFe Agile framework, this role ensures timely delivery of high-quality inclusive and accessible training materials while fostering collaboration. By applying adult learning theory, cognitive science and industry best practice, such as Criterion-Referenced Instruction Methodology, and adhering to internal quality standards, the Instructional Designer ensures effective learning outcomes.

Position follows hybrid schedule: Monday-Wednesday in office, Thursday-Friday remote.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Collaborates with business partners and stakeholders to conduct needs analysis, identifying desired skills, performance standards, current gaps, target audience, success metrics, and other requirements defined in the intake process.
• Creates and manages project plans for curriculum development and updates, adhering to the ADDIE model and timelines while leveraging the SAFe Agile method to achieve goals and meet deadlines.
• Uses expertise as a Center of Excellence, collaborates with the business to develop learning objectives, skill checks, and supporting content; determines the optimal sequence for delivering information; and selects the most effective training methods to build skills that ensure successful job performance.
• Designs individual courses and complete curricula for diverse organizational roles, prioritizing functional, technical, and compliance training.
• Designs and develops eLearning courses in Articulate Storyline with the ability to create custom interactions as needed to meet the performance-based design.
• Analyzes existing technical and functional skills programs to design adaptive learning curriculums that offer flexibility and customization, aligning with learners’ unique needs and experiences.
• Design with accessibility and inclusion in mind.
• Recommends, designs, and develops performance-based learning solutions, including Instructor-led training, participant and facilitator guides, eLearning, job guides, storyboards, and other learning materials, as well as blended learning approaches.
• Source, evaluate, and manage relationships with external vendors to ensure high-quality and cost-effective learning solutions align with organizational needs and goals.
• Partners with our Administration team to ensure appropriate changes are made to curriculums within the Workday Learning Management System (LMS) and our Digital Asset Management System and are communicated appropriately to all stakeholders.
• Facilitates Train-the-Trainer sessions and content walkthroughs for developed content.
• Consults with business partners and integrates change management methodologies into learning content and design to ensure successful adoption and organizational change on desired behaviors.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of learning programs and makes recommendations accordingly.
• Effectively and successfully manages multiple projects to achieve project goals and meet deadlines.
• This position may require travel up to 25% per year.
• This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.

What You Bring With You (Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent experience with emphasis in instructional design, instructional technology or education related discipline.
• Certification in Criterion Reference Instruction or Instructional Design preferred.
• Minimum of 3-5 years of experience in the instructional design of classroom, e-learning and online support solutions in corporate training environments.
• Experience in Articulate Storyline & Rise.
• Experience in Adobe Acrobat, Photoshop, Audition and Premiere Pro preferred.
• Knowledge and demonstrated understanding of adult learning theories and instructional design principles.
• Full knowledge of ADDIE process.
• Knowledge of current and future instructional design technologies and trends (to include e-learning, mobile learning, ILT, etc.).
• High comfort level with technology and ability to quickly learn and utilize new software applications.
• Demonstrated experience in partnering with business/organizational leaders, subject matter experts, vendors, and facilitators to translate business objectives into effective learning solutions.
• Ability to effectively organize work, prioritize and manage time in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Experience in creating and implementing adaptive learning programs and/or technologies in a retail or similar environment (Preferred).
• Strong verbal communication skills.

About Organization

It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail.

Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again.
A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years.

So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better.