Senior Learning & Talent Advisor

Clyde and Co LLP

This role serves as a business partner to the MEA region, and reports into the Head of Learning and Development in the UK as part of the firm's global centre of excellence for learning and talent. Working alongside another Senior Learning Advisor, this role will partner with regional HR business partners and senior stakeholders in the business to drive higher performance and growth in the MEA region, whilst also supporting the team's global strategy and priorities, equipping key stakeholder groups with essential professional development and behavioural skills, enabling successful career progression across the employee lifecycle.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and implement engaging marketing strategies to promote the global learning and development portfolio to colleagues across the region.
• Review existing talent mapping initiatives, analysing data to identify gaps and opportunities for development, proposing talent development strategies in collaboration with HR Business Partners in the region whilst promoting future global talent initiatives to embed standardised global processes.
• Design and deliver engaging and impactful learning solutions for diverse audiences, partnering with external suppliers where required and ensuring content is leveraged globally first.
• Ensure that learning administration support delivered from the central service centre (UK based) is of a high quality and in compliance with regional and regulatory requirements.
• Support the delivery of the second phase of the hybrid KSA Trainee Programme in collaboration with key stakeholders, ensuring that mandatory requirements are tracked and reported.
• Collaborate with Early Careers Programme Lead to align with future global curriculums
• Collaborate with the global learning and talent team to implement a Global Legal Director learning curriculum that is aligned to the refreshed global competency framework with a particular focus on enhancing business development expertise and leadership capability.
• Provide project management and support to the Global Learning and Talent strategic priority projects, particularly in relation to blended learning delivery with digital learning resources and on-line engagement.
• Maintain the firm's external coaching offering and internal mentoring capability.
• Monitor regional L&D costs in accordance with budget as required.
• Bring forward to the Learning & Talent Management Team any cost saving opportunities and/or options for learning delivery that are scalable and will benefit other regions
• Provide regular dashboard reports to regional and global leadership to demonstrate the breadth of the learning and development portfolio in the region providing transparency on engagement and impact.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Experienced learning and development professional with experience of working in professional services environments (preferably global).
• Demonstrated skills in facilitating and designing learning curriculums using the most up to date methodologies and technologies, tailoring to specific audiences.
• Proven track record in partnering with external suppliers to source high quality learning solutions and managing these relationships.
• Prior experience of working with regional and global cross-functional teams in complex environments undergoing significant transformation and modernisation.
• Confident in problem solving and knowing when to escalate issues to leadership.
• Able to communicate with brevity and in a timely manner, whilst managing expectations.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to partner, advise and influence at all levels of the business.
• Strategically minded with strong attention to detail.
• A self-starter and able to perform with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable working at pace in sometimes ambiguous situations with strong project management skills and a solution focused, pragmatic approach.
• Accreditation with psychometric tools is desirable, e.g. Discovery Insights, Hogan.