Lead the global Product and Technology function in identifying strategic capabilities and learning plans to support and grow the business and build critical skills. Plan and execute leadership and management initiatives, career development programs, and deploy general learning through Pearson U. Support the business through transformation and change initiatives as needed.
Combining their understanding and focus of the business and capability challenges, with current business intelligence and innovation to improve the performance of the business.
Stakeholder management across the HR Business Partner community and business leaders to understand the business and internal learning needs and decode customer expectations
Consult on performance challenges and provide learning needs analyses and informal insight to support the business in identifying capability development priorities.
Co-crafting the learning strategy for the business, aligned to the global learning strategy
Support and coach the HR Leads in transforming the effectiveness with which the business learns and grows careers.
Build the leaning plan, sourcing the effective solutions available and engaging with Learning Project Leads to ensure new solutions (make a value added difference to the business) meet the business needs.
Build trust and credibility through ensuring, implementation of the learning plan aligns to the strategic business priorities and continuously improves the learning experience, whilst also reporting each quarter to demonstrate commercial impact and learning activity in the business.
Integration of Learning activity into wider initiatives and subjects in the area of Talent, Business Change and Management/ Leadership Development.
Utilisation of technology and clear processing to ensure Learning activity and ownership is shared with the business to ensure ease of usability and access to learning, diagnostic and change solutions
Key relationships
HR Business Partners - SVP, VP and Directors
Senior Business Leaders
Corporate Affairs/Internal Comms Lead(s) for Technology and Product
People Manager Community
Engagement groups, including employee resource groups, that are active in the business
Learning Investment Review Members in Technology and Product
Learning Project Leads and Learning Services
External Learning experts and networking with companies facing similar challenges
An ability to communicate and discuss across all levels of the business
KPIs
Creation and execution of a Talent plan by business, geography client area
% business owning development plan
Impact of solutions
Quarterly activity per area
Qualifications
Key Skills, Experience and Capabilities
Responsiveness to business challenge & change through implementation of solutions
Previous experience as a strategic L&D Consultant or HR Business Partner
Strong leadership capability
Global mindset and experience of working across cultures, languages and business variety
Business awareness and familiarity with operating business models
Commercial acumen
Strong influencing and relationship skills
L&D functional experience with performance consulting, needs analysis and service implementation
Coaching and facilitation skills across varied subjects and groups
General awareness of the HR function and the components within it.
Customer-centric attitude and approach
Self awareness
Change leadership experience
Experience in digital and business transformation preferred
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