Associate Director - Learning & Development - FMCG/BFSI

Associate Director - Learning & Development

Job Description

- Strategy Planning and Execution:

- Develop annual and long-term training plan and initiatives in line with the relevant business objectives.

- Enabling / Supporting Financial Performance by focusing / driving training interventions and joint field work with sales colleagues to improve their in-clinic effectiveness.

- Formulate and manage training budget and resources in partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

- Capability Development:

- Build / design innovative training programs to improve knowledge and skill quotient for field colleagues.

- Execute training programs in line with adult learning principles and newer ways of interactive trainings.

- Set up systems and processes for continuous feedback to determine gaps and next step planning for capability enhancement requirements.

- Devise metrics for measurement of training programs to track progress of colleagues.

- Partner with cross functional groups in the organization for successful business salience and become a strong enabler of business growth via training interventions.

- Business Partnership and Collaboration:

- Alignment with BU priorities, leverage expertise of commercial operations and other support functions to enhance the engagement and development of sales team.

- Collaborate with other learning teams in APAC and Global for learning intervention approvals and execute exemplified learnings from other countries.

- Closely work with SFE & BPO teams on prioritizing organizational objectives while designing the programs accordingly.

- Identify right partners / external facilitators / stakeholders to collaborate for newer training methods and practices and stronger facilitation.

Training Content Design:

- Enable innovative thinking for new age content design for shorter and smarter learning adaptability of colleagues.

- Ensure consistent quality of content and facilitation with up-to-date business needs and industry standards

People Management:

- Participate in the recruitment process of the L&D team, allocate target objectives, track, monitor, review and guide performance, in order to achieve L&D objectives through a motivated team.

- Review talent within the team, provide developmental feedback, suggest training programs and work on individual development plan of each team member.

- Build collaboration, communication, open interaction and share best practices amongst the team.

Qualifications:

- Graduate + MBA (preferred) with overall 10+ years of total experience or 5+ years of management consulting experience (5+ years in people management preferred).

- Experience in Training and Development in parallel pharma or consumer facing industries such as FMCG / Med Devices / Banking.