Position Title: Senior Consultant – Learning and Development

Reporting to: Learning and Development Head

Location: hyderabad

Justification:
This position is critical for building the leadership pipeline of XYZ by facilitating leadership and other developmental programs for the employees.

Academic Background and Experience:

- Graduate with MBA, preferably specialization in HR.

- At least 10 to 12 years experience in learning and development domain. Experience in design / customization of content and should have facilitated programs.

- Prior experience in other areas of HR or other business functions such as operations, account management etc.

- Good understanding of instruction design principles, a few psychometric tools such as DiSC, FiroB, MBTI, CPI, Belbin etc.

Job responsibilities:

- Define the learning need either at organization, BU or group level.

- Create or customize content by using instructional design principles.

- Use instruction design principles to guide the BUs for designing back-to-basics programs.

- To facilitate programs for middle level leaders and senior leaders (need based).

- Network and get good faculty (from Ivy League schools). Get the best faculty or program or methodology – that suits the business and learning requirement.

- Interact with external faculty or facilitators and ensure that organization gets the best solution – a solution that meets all requirements.

- Benchmark the learning and development initiatives of XYZ and focus on continuous improvement.

- Create a pull for the learning and development initiatives within the organization.

- Knowledge and application of technology to build a sustainable learning organization.

Key performance Indicators:

- Facilitate and help build a learning culture in XYZ. Build the overall leadership competency levels of the employees.

Key personal attributes:

- Business orientation – ability to work closely with business units or business leaders by understanding their needs and designing and rolling out solutions that meet those needs. Ability to measure the learning effectiveness.

- Possess the maturity and competence to interact and work closely with senior leaders of the organization.

- Network extensively both with people inside and outside the organization.

- Passionate, self-motivated and persevering.

- Strong interpersonal skills, draws energy by working with people.

- Knowledgeable / specialized in a few areas of development – change leadership, strategic leadership, team building etc.

Operating Network:

- The role holder will have to interact and work closely with all the business and functions.

- The role holder also needs to work with external partner companies.

- The ideal candidate should be a good fit against XYZ’s Leadership model and must strongly relate with XYZ organizational values.

Please send your resume to preshada@merrinassociates.com