The Company

One of the Leading Retail Groups in the GCC with marketing leading brands across their portfolio is now looking for a key individual to transform their Responsible for providing direction and success to the learning and development strategy for the company. This will include developing a strategic plan, designing, and delivering various learning initiatives and measuring their effectiveness across areas & business of operations focused towards strengthening people and organisational capabilities and performance. The role will focus in creating a future-focused and effective global learning eco-system, which inspires and enables impactful development experiences and shifts in learning mindsets and behaviors. Further, the role will deliver a world-class L&D service which provides thought-leadership and innovative learning tools and solutions. The role will require the incumbent to partner with and influence leaders to optimize L&D resources and integrate L&D into organisational practices to attract talent and build and sustain a skilled, vibrant, and agile workforce.

The Role

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop learning and development (L&D) strategy outlining how an organisation develops its workforce\\\'s capabilities, skills and competencies, knowledge, and skill to remain successful.
• Identifying the current and future skills requirements of an organisation and creating flexible learning interventions (through digital and other means) to meet the diverse needs of the workforce.
• Setting staff development goals, developing strategies to improve productivity, identifying areas for improvement, and maintaining an adequate workforce.
• Actively searches, creatively designs, and implements effective methods for enhancing performance, and recognizing outstanding performance. Helps the organisation in maintaining a consistent culture in the business with regard to training and development.
• Analyze existing training programs to determine whether they provide employees with the skills needed to perform their jobs.
• Prepare a training budget for a department or organization. Communicate with vendors and customers to understand their needs, discuss issues with management, conduct surveys within the company, and determine which types of training are most suitable for the company and the way its employees tend to learn.
• Designing e-learning courses, career plans, workshops and more. Maintaining budgets and relationships with vendors and consultants.
• Benchmark locally, regionally, and globally on the best practices in Learning management and update the processes and policies accordingly.
• Active & continuous participation with HR business partners and business managers to benchmark the health of various offerings to ensure organizations capability towards attracting, selecting, and retaining high-potential employees remains intact & competitive. Work with various stakeholders to promote the high performance, development-oriented culture.

Implement:

• Plan and execute all the milestones in the Learning management cycle.
• Contribute / Should be able to lead to the automation of the Learning Management System in collaboration with HRIS and IT teams.
• Play an active role in developing various communications and interactions with the external teams and manage the internal communication plan for all related matters in the Learning cycle.
• Develop and deliver content related to training and employee development.
• Develop and run multiple surveys (pulse, temperature check, people survey) across the organization.
• Provide support to line managers in applying various learning techniques, should they face challenges with the implementation.
• Play an active role in training employees across hierarchies on various engagement and coaching techniques, provide training on levels of performance framework.

The Person

Key Requirements:

• Atleast 10-15 years solid L&D experience with hands-on experience in implementing various training, learning & development procedures. Should have independently managed developing and deploying a learning cycle for the company.
• Preferably from Retail, Leisure, sports, or a similar type of environment.
• Have the capacity for creative thinking and a keen sense of confidence in communicating with a variety of diverse types of people.
• Be able keep himself / herself updated on industry trends in order to advise senior management and internal stakeholders and enable creation of effective strategies for promoting people growth and their careers.
• Must have a fair understanding of technology platforms available in the work area.
• Able to influence stakeholders with a strong and logical mindset, backed by strong domain understanding and its drivers.
• Should be Analytical, Courageous, Attention to detail, Large Database management. Excellent verbal and written communication.
• Should have driven large projects for the company.

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