Senior Director Training and Development

Location: New York
Posted on: November 1, 2024

Job Description:

I am looking for an excellent senior leader for a newly created excellent leadership opportunity for a talented and forward-thinking Learning and Development professional to lead a team responsible for designing, implementing and overseeing programs necessary to ensure strong skill sets across an organization. This person will will focus on driving required individual, technical and leader effectiveness skills, with a strong emphasis on technologically progressive implementation, given a large and geographically dispersed employee population.

This new role will ensure development of the skills and capabilities of people to support the growth and evolution of a fast-growing business. This is a highly visible position with significant exposure to all levels of business employees, from executives through front-line operations staff. Leadership and managerial skills, creativity and knowledge and experience in leading innovative, best practice projects and motivating team members are key to the success of this role.

Responsibilities:

• Manage team of professionals responsible for design, program management and implementation of mandatory and elective programs to drive the business strategy and culture.

• Responsible for the overhaul of programs, to link directly to business goals and culture drivers, and strategize new creation of programs that meet focused needs and incorporate emphasis on reinforcement and impact. Manage compliance and adherence to all required skills and knowledge.

• Implement/Manage Learning Management System (LMS) and Online Learning System (OLS) programs, ensure updating, key focus and communication.

• Facilitate selected key programs and sessions. Practice progressive, engaging facilitation of content via multiple modalities.

• Bring innovative and creative solutions by leveraging progressive thinking, technology, and out of the-box- problem solving. Conduct external research and benchmarking to ensure strategy, content and delivery model are positioned to deliver best-in-class results.

• Work closely with senior management team across the enterprise to identify and anticipate learning needs of front-line through senior level leaders. Partner with senior executive to ensure integration with other core programs, curriculum and concepts. Consult with Human Resource Business Partners, senior business leaders and other key stakeholders to continually build relationships.

• Enable change management efforts and organizational planning at the company level to position our company?s sustainable further growth.

• Assist in selecting, building and maintaining relationships with, and overseeing outside development resources for the organization. Manage selection and management of vendors.

• Manage the analysis of current and future learning development programs including evaluating the most effective and cost-efficient ways to deliver relevant training to multiple levels of employees throughout the organization.

• Consistently assess and measure training and development programs to ensure they are relevant to the needs of the changing business. Develop measures, benchmarks, or scorecards to monitor the effectiveness of efforts; apply these measures to drive progress in capability enhancement. Design and incorporate effective communication and feedback methods for curricula.

• Recruit, train, coach, direct and evaluate staff performance. Manages staff on a daily basis, holds team accountable, and provides the support necessary for the staff to succeed. Conducts interviews, manages staff concerns, and team-building as needed.

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