Regional Head of Learning & Development

Position Summary

Reporting to the Global Head, Learning and Development and partnering closely with the Regional Head, HR (Africa), the Regional Head, Learning & Development will be responsible for leading a cohesive Learning Strategy across the various Africa businesses while aligning with global-focus. 
 
At its core, this role is about creating a culture of learner-led, continuous learning and growth through interventions and resources that enables high individual / team performance and growth, which drives business outcomes. The role will partner with HR Partners (across matrix) and the broader L&D, Talent community to draw insights from both business and people strategy to design, curate and deliver bespoke learning solutions. He / She will be responsible for facilitating critical capability-building and leadership development so as to enable successful execution of our strategic priorities.

Position Responsibilities

•    Work closely with the business to draw insights and understand learning needs to ensure learning solutions while globally designed, is nuanced for local implementation. 
•    Collaborate with business in defining a learning strategic plan required for building critical capabilities, aligned with business strategy.
•    Translates the learning strategic plan into pragmatic, multi-year learning journeys implementable across business and geographic borders while ensuring consistency with talent practices.
•    Create flexible and scalable learning interventions to meet the diverse needs of varied workforce-settings. 
•    Collaborate with the global L&D team and broader Talent CoE, internal stakeholders and external partners to custom design, deliver and sustain learning & development interventions. 
•    Own the full employee learning and development lifecycle from learning needs analysis to solution-design to implementation and finally return-on-development (ROD) measurement. This includes managing the allocated budget and reporting on relevant metrics.
•    Build internal collaborations and external partnerships in support of personal / team professional effectiveness and growth.
 

Position Requirements

•    Minimum 10 years of experience in learning and development and/or leadership development. Experience should include the design and delivery of development initiatives in a business environment, with use of a variety of delivery methods and platforms.
•    Preferably with 2 or more years of team management and leadership experience.  
•    Mix of in-house and consulting experience preferred. 
•    Demonstrated track records of engaging and building relationships with full-range leadership levels and frontline workers alike.
•    Demonstrated track records of sustaining long-term supplier partnerships, while demonstrating the ability to negotiate optimized contracts.
•    Experienced in creating / co-creating learning solutions with in-house subject-matter experts, external development partners.
•    Competent in facilitating virtual and in-person training sessions. 
•    Proficient in navigating an LMS/LXP and leverage its functionalities to achieve their results, including tracking learning participation and improving L&D metrics.
•    Ability to work within a matrix environment, prioritize across stakeholders’ needs.
•    Ability and willingness to travel up to 25% of the time. May include international travel. 
•    Strong networker, curious to improve own knowledge, confident in exchanging ideas, sharing own learnings