Manager/Lead - Learning & Development - Pharma

Strategy:

- The Lead, People Learning and Development plays a lead strategic role, overseeing the creation of content, e-learning, collateral, and other training materials that will impact behaviour-changing training using innovative training theories inclusive of job aids, facilitator and participant guides, on-the-job training systems, tutorials, and demonstration models. S/he should be adept in writing for creating content on the various learning initiatives, should have a high sense of aesthetics for designing collaterals and presentations. S/he should be aware of using common tools like Canva and Microsoft PPT to create necessary learning journeys.

- In this capacity, S/he also drives the development of programs that incorporate overall business objectives such as the business's financial goals. S/he also develops and maintains interactive and innovative learning solutions that drive measurable results for the business and guarantee that those solutions are instructionally sound and are up to the business's quality standards.

Collaboration:

- S/he also plays a highly collaborative role where S/he builds solid cross-functional relationships with functional heads and management across the business. S/he partners with other human resource department heads and senior training and development management to determine program priorities, roll-out plans, set program deadlines, and ROI analytics.

- S/ he also collaborates with functional heads, leaders, and managers, in order to identify areas that requiring training and also to co-create program requirements unique to each function. S/he also works closely with key stakeholders in addressing gaps in the overall training mission.

Analytics:

- The Lead, People Learning & Development plays an analytical role where S/he conducts current and ongoing strategic assessments of business-wide training and development programs and initiatives. In this capacity, S/he is tasked with the creation of testing and evaluation processes of the effectiveness of training programs.

- This role measures program delivery quality, which ensures continuous improvement, maintenance, and adjustment in program delivery approaches accordingly to maintain pace with business growth.

- This role reports results to Senior Leadership team for further and strategic decision making and to influence informed decision making.

Execution and Team Handling:

- This role entails delivery of training sessions across the different functions. Liaise with managers to determine training needs and schedule training sessions with the help of team members.

- Design effective training programs using instructional design principles. Ensure the use of the LMS to document training journeys and create dashboards for training effectiveness.

- Should be adept at facilitating training sessions and take training for diverse set of audience starting from employees in the corporate to plant managers and shop floor employees.

- Create FAQ guides and materials for program implementation along with team members for learning repository in the organization.

- This is a team handling role and prior experience of managing and developing team members will be appreciated.